Posted on 07/22/2010 8:57:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Standing before "Phoenix Rising," a statue made from hundreds of melted-down guns, law-enforcement leaders set out an initiative to battle the violence that has taken 29 lives in Minneapolis this year -- far eclipsing the total for all of 2009.
The plan: to prosecute more cases of illegal gun possession in federal court, where sentences often are longer and often without parole.
The message: Commit a serious or repeat gun crime in Minneapolis, and you will face serious prison time.
Thursday's news conference was more than just a policy discussion. As officials laid out Project Minneapolis Exile, mothers of slain young men held each other, sobbing. They were dressed in red, to signify the blood that has been shed and that binds them together.
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>Wouldn’t this title be better as “New Push to Get Criminals Off Mpls. Streets”?<
No because then the Blacks would feel as if the cops are out to get them. That’s prejudicial. There’s status in the ‘hood for being known as a bad ass criminal. However it is not PC to shakedown the Black criminals.
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