Posted on 06/25/2020 3:27:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A progressive Minneapolis neighborhood that pledged not to call the police in the wake of the death of George Floyd is now dealing with a 300-strong homeless encampment in a local park,
Traffic has reportedly increased in the neighborhood around Powderhorn Park, as drug dealers seek to meet their clientele displaced during the civil unrest, rioting and looting following Floyd’s death at the end of May. At least one person overdosed inside the park and was brought out by an ambulance. Prostitution has also been reported in the area.
Residents though have agreed to “check their privilege” and “protect people of color” by not involving law enforcement to report instances of property damage, according to the New York Times.
Keeping the promise not to call the police has proven more difficult than imagined, as some residents have avoided the park altogether after being catcalled and are fearing for their children’s safety. Others said they had trouble sleeping at night, fearing campers would force their way into their homes.
“I’m not being judgmental,” Carrie Nightshade, 44, told the Times, explaining she no longer allows her children, 12 and 9, to play in the park by themselves. “It’s not personal. It’s just not safe.
Another resident, Mitchell Erickson, said he regretted calling 911 when two black teenagers cornered him a block away from his home, held a gun to his chest and demanded his car keys. Erickson said he mistakenly handed over his house keys, and the frustrated teens left him only to steal another car a few blocks away.
“Been thinking more about it,” Erickson said in a text message to a reporter. “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.”
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Hopefully it will be 3,000 soon.
I just love these satire articles.
This is just a taste of what lawlessness will look like.
Stupid is as stupid does.
House value will plummet. No sane person would want to move into the neighborhood. It’s the opposite of gentrification. Slumification.
Liberalism means never having to answer for your actions. He will just look confused if he is told that the two thugs murdered someone and ask what the dead people did to provoke the thugs.
“Don’t look like homeless to me...just lazy young adults...”
Dare we say...Millennials?
It’s now Powderkeg Park.
If you build it....they will come.
rwood
Just a little bit of SF to middle America.
Typical LIB lunatics . Obviously , they are “better” than the rest of us.
ALL LIBS are mentally ill . ..ALL.
They make me want to go rob them myself.
Looks like quite a few thousand worth of tents and gear, and not a single cardboard box or shopping cart to be seen. Those poor, poor homeless.
Idiots.......
They deserve what they get if they cannot break out of their brainwashed ideology.
GOD, THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!!!
Yeah?? Definitely lots of new tents, weird ??
My question is: are there “facilities” available or are they just reliving themselves anywhere they want ... “(Summer of) Love in the Time of Cholera”??
Just put on some black face before you do, NO PROBLEM.
To those obviously brain damaged white idiots all blacks look alike anyway.
It is simply astonishing.
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