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A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested.
The New York Times ^ | 06-24-2020 | Caitlin Dickerson

Posted on 06/24/2020 10:44:58 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Mitchell Erickson’s fingers began dialing 911 last week before he had a chance to even consider alternatives, when two black teenagers who looked to be 15, at most, cornered him outside his home a block away from the park.

One of the boys pointed a gun at Mr. Erickson’s chest, demanding his car keys.

Flustered, Mr. Erickson handed over a set, but it turned out to be house keys. The teenagers got frustrated and ran off, then stole a different car down the street.

Mr. Erickson said later that he would not cooperate with prosecutors in a case against the boys. After the altercation, he realized that if there was anything he wanted, it was to offer them help. But he still felt it had been right to call the authorities because there was a gun involved.

Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved. “Been thinking more about it,” he wrote in a text message. “I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 911; armedrobbery; blackcrimesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; cops; cuck; minneapolis; minnesota; mitchellerickson; police; privilege; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 06/24/2020 10:44:58 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Get the hell out of that stupid town immediately!! Yesterday


2 posted on 06/24/2020 10:47:34 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: Trump20162020

talk about too stupid to live. I seriously hope this idiot hasn’t reproduced


3 posted on 06/24/2020 10:47:47 PM PDT by Mom MD
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[Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved. “Been thinking more about it,” he wrote in a text message. “I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”]

Wow. What a freaking moron this guy is. He’s lucky to be alive, frankly.


4 posted on 06/24/2020 10:50:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

You simple faggot, get off my planet.......


5 posted on 06/24/2020 10:51:30 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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[I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops]

They put a gun in your chest, you flipping moron.

Next time they just might kill someone else.

Get it? Of course not. You're stupid beyond belief.


6 posted on 06/24/2020 10:53:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Truthoverpower

Get the hell out of that stupid town immediately!! Yesterday
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Sure hope that is a ‘broadbrush’ statement and NOT directed to the nut case that the story is about.

He is liable to end up in YOUR or MY hometown and am sure both have enough idiots now.

Problem with all these libs fleeing what they considered ‘paradise’.....

It would be fine if they left their Lib ways behind but they tend to carry them around to the next town and if they find one or two like thinkers, the town tends to change in the long run or at least they make enough impact to make things ‘worse’....


7 posted on 06/24/2020 10:56:22 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Trump20162020

“I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.”

Well, luckily for Mitchell the cops didn’t catch them.

Also, luckily for Mitchell, he doesn’t know the young lads’ names, so when they kill some innocent person he won’t have to feel guilty about that either.


8 posted on 06/24/2020 10:59:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Trump20162020

I’ve often wondered where the dumbest town in America was located.

Now I know.


9 posted on 06/24/2020 11:01:16 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: CaptainK
I believe I have found a picture of this guy:


10 posted on 06/24/2020 11:04:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

Shouldn’t he go to their likely neighborhood, surrender his car, his money and all of his possessions?


11 posted on 06/24/2020 11:06:11 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Trump20162020

Need a subscription to read the rest of the story.

How does it end? Please say he came to his senses.


12 posted on 06/24/2020 11:08:37 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Trump20162020

We need a name for these suicidal white cucks.


13 posted on 06/24/2020 11:12:10 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
Here you go:

http://archive.is/WD5HW

14 posted on 06/24/2020 11:13:21 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Darteaus94025

[Shouldn’t he go to their likely neighborhood, surrender his car, his money and all of his possessions?]

It would seem to be the honorable liberal thing to do.

Plus give them his checkbook and his ATM cards.

He can catch the bus to work and finance all of their purchases.

What a happy Democrat he will be, then.


15 posted on 06/24/2020 11:17:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

If this isn’t insanity I don’t know what is.


16 posted on 06/24/2020 11:22:06 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Trump20162020
I wouldn't want to share a postal code with this spineless wonder / moral coward, let alone a foxhole!

Regards,

17 posted on 06/24/2020 11:22:17 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Darteaus94025; Amberdawn

Here he (actually) is:

http://archive.is/WD5HW/be3f5c0fc68cfa550002b3d678ede2315ad5f3ef.webp


18 posted on 06/24/2020 11:22:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

Useful Idiots.


19 posted on 06/24/2020 11:22:38 PM PDT by Thunder 6
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To: Thunder 6

Black privilege is people thinking you should be able to get away with armed robbery and stealing cars because of your skin color.


20 posted on 06/24/2020 11:25:57 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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