Actually the only way it will get taken more serious is if it is gay men getting beaten. Minnesotans need more than straight, professional,or suburbanite white people getting treated poorly to begin fueling any real outrage.
This exact thing has happened in E Block not too far away. It was supposed to be the new center of downtown life until it was taken over by black punks and it chased away my former fellow Minnesotans...now they’re left with a fairly newly developed area that has few businesses left.
Who knows...Nicollet Mall is supposed to be the showcase of downtown Minneapolis so maybe this will finally start opening some eyes to the real problems going on there.
A number of women I know still work downtown (mainly at Target) and they don’t like working until dark due to how much more seedy the area has gotten.
OH, like the 'transexual' who got beat up in the women's bathroom at McDonald's by a couple of black (lesbian?) females?