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  • Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community

    02/17/2019 6:48:20 AM PST · by SJackson · 43 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2-17-19 | Hollie McKay
    MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - In the dead of the cold, late night on Tuesday, a young Somali man was shot in the hip. Someone took him to the local trauma center, left him there, and drove off. The man told police at his bedside that he didn’t know who shot him, who took him to the hospital, or why he was targeted. “I’m intoxicated,” he told cops, while doctors tended his wound, before insisting he didn't know anything else about what happened. For the attending police officers, it was a frustrating, albeit familiar, response from a member of the Somali community,...
  • How Minneapolis' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US...

    02/16/2019 9:25:06 PM PST · by caww · 36 replies
    FoxNews ^ | 2/16/2019 | Hollie McKay
    Josh Lipowsky, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project concurred the immigrant community in Minnesota has proven to be ripe for targeting in recent years by 'specifically playing into the Card' of being something of an outsider.....population in the United States estimates of up to 100,000 the 'insular' ethnic community in Minnesota offers a rich recruiting ground. ...And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS.... it's no longer just the men. Early last year, a female was apprehended by authorities on charges of supporting providing material support to Al...