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‘There’s a concerted effort to make people afraid of crime,’ Moriarty claims
Alpha News ^ | June 10, 2024 | Hayley Feland

Posted on 06/17/2024 12:25:18 PM PDT by Red Badger

"White supremacy is ingrained everywhere," Moriarty said. "White supremacy is what we all live in. It's the water."

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty speaks at an April 30 Board of Commissioners meeting. (Hennepin County)

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During a May 28 event, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty explained she believes there’s an effort to cause the public to fear crime.

“Moderate Democrats have done a lot of work in making people afraid of downtown Minneapolis,” she said. “There is a concerted effort to make people afraid of crime.”

The conversation took place between Moriarty and Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, a Mitchell Hamline School of Law professor. The discussion centered around being “good trouble” and activism.

“White supremacy is ingrained everywhere,” Moriarty said. “White supremacy is what we all live in. It’s the water. It’s what we swim in here.”

Wilson agreed and took it a step further, explaining his belief that white supremacy is embedded in all public policy, including the Constitution. “We have to think about the Constitution as the living will of the white supremacist, slave-owning, genocidal, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, cis-heterosexist, capitalistic, classics [sic] maniacs, right,” Wilson said.

Moriarty, a white, lesbian woman, was elected to serve as Hennepin County attorney in 2022. Her campaign included progressive approaches to criminal justice such as “restorative justice programs” and “alternatives to incarceration.”

“Crime is down,” Moriarty said repeatedly throughout the conversation.

She also discussed her advice for current law students, which was to ask more questions. “You talk about the rule of law, it’s like, what is that? I mean, I kind of wonder how anybody talks about the rule of law now. Wasn’t Roe v. Wade rule of law? I mean, what happened to that?” Moriarty said.

“Yes, you can,” Moriarty replied when asked if the public can expect her to seek reelection. She explained that her office has been involved in a lot of good work, including expungement clinics and reevaluating sentences of individuals who are incarcerated.

“There’s so many people we haven’t charged on aiding and abetting,” Moriarty said when discussing how proud she is of the work she’s been doing as Hennepin County attorney. “The office used to charge people who were there with aiding and abetting, and we don’t do that anymore.”

She also pushed back on the notion that she harbors an anti-police bias. “I have nothing against law enforcement, I want everybody to be held accountable. That doesn’t mean punished, by the way, but accountability is important. Sometimes that’s restorative practices, most of the time it should be restorative practices.”

However, police demonstrate “fragility to any kind of feedback or criticism,” Moriarty claimed.

Days after the interview, Moriarty’s office dropped charges against a state trooper for a fatal use of force incident last year, citing her office’s inability to “prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime occurred.”


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To: Red Badger

“The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man.” - Malcolm X.................
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If Malcolm X actually said that the Trump Team should run it as a campaign commercial on every news outlet in the country everyday from now to November!


61 posted on 06/17/2024 2:59:49 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: Red Badger

We are being governed by children
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Children are rarely evil. We’re being governed by ignorant, vicious, EVIL adults who are attempting to destroy us, and who are motivated by fear, hatred, and money.


62 posted on 06/17/2024 3:10:50 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m willing to bet that the percentage of crimes committed by Whites is very low compared to crimes by Blacks a d Browns no matter what this stupid self loathing Biotch says. And excuse me but fearing crime and criminals seems like good self preservation sense.


63 posted on 06/17/2024 3:25:24 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Army Air Corps

An AWFUL woman: Angry White Feminist Urban Liberal


64 posted on 06/17/2024 4:26:35 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11115124-the-white-liberal-is-the-worst-enemy-to-america-and


65 posted on 06/17/2024 5:50:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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