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Minneapolis is beginning to reckon with its disastrous Marxist policies
American Thinker ^ | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/18/2020 5:36:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

In June, the Minneapolis City Council proudly announced that it would be defunding and dismantling its police department as an unseemly institution of racism and white privilege. By July, the Minneapolis City council began to approve substantial cuts to the police. By August, nearly 20% of Minneapolis police were in the process of retiring and those who remain are tentative about policing. Crime in Minneapolis has skyrocketed. And just this week, two events occurred, one hilarious and one tragic.

The hilarious thing is that the same town council that proudly announced that it would abandon all societal norms and end policing in its community complained vigorously that the police were not doing their job by controlling crime. The tragic thing was a high school principal who, upon the occasion of a student’s murder, gave an impassioned plea for a return to normalcy, something that would include a functioning police force and open schools.

The City Council got together on Tuesday, September 16, to discuss city business. The business that most occupied them was rising crime – especially murder in their respective districts:

Three months after voting to dismantle the Minneapolis police department, city council members there spent much of a business meeting on Tuesday complaining about an uptick in violent crime across the city.

Several city council members told police chief Medaria Arradondo at the meeting that their constituents were concerned about increased criminal activity.

City council members Lisa Bender, Steve Fletcher and Andrew Johnson led off the two-hour meeting with questions about the crime wave.


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


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1 posted on 09/18/2020 5:36:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Dearest minneapolis voters: Enjoy the suck. You voted for and support leftists and losers. If you have any excess popcorn, please send it to me.


2 posted on 09/18/2020 5:38:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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Stupid.


3 posted on 09/18/2020 5:38:33 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Federalism works. Mini lab experiments and their results. The Dems want to spread this disaster nationally


4 posted on 09/18/2020 5:39:44 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s unpossible the council members can be that clueless. I suggest they hire social workers to explain reparations to the residents of Marcy Holmes.


5 posted on 09/18/2020 5:45:00 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: RoosterRedux

Stupid should hurt.


7 posted on 09/18/2020 5:50:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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8 posted on 09/18/2020 5:52:07 AM PDT by maggief
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To: RoosterRedux

The stated policy of the left is the total destruction of America and the media is actively hiding it. The Democrats have decided that the key to gun control is to encourage violent crime and offer gun control as the solution, and the media is silent. The next step will be the silencing of media that is reporting the truth. Where is the tipping point?


9 posted on 09/18/2020 5:52:24 AM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: RoosterRedux
By August, nearly 20% of Minneapolis police were in the process of retiring and those who remain are tentative about policing. Crime in Minneapolis has skyrocketed.

Is there a sane person on the planet who couldn't have predicted this? If I lived there, it would take me about 2 nanoseconds to demand a recall for the entire city council.

10 posted on 09/18/2020 5:53:42 AM PDT by econjack
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To: RoosterRedux

The city council will come to two conclusions:

—Any violence is Trumps fault
—the federal government should pay for any damage.


11 posted on 09/18/2020 5:55:30 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: NonValueAdded

Remember, if a few million need to be sacrificed for the cause, that is perfectly acceptable to leftists.


12 posted on 09/18/2020 5:56:18 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t laugh. This is our future regardless of what state you live in. A leftist mentality boosted by Third World voters unattached to our American Heritage.


13 posted on 09/18/2020 5:56:56 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: RoosterRedux

By their voting habits, the residents of Minneapolis prefer their city to resemble Mogadishu. They prefer death, destruction, misery, terror, and poverty over peace and prosperity.


14 posted on 09/18/2020 5:58:51 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: RoosterRedux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vlFI40RvwI&feature=youtu.be

Where was SHE when the losers in the street were allowed to make it impossible for Police to do their jobs without risk to their lives... when HER voted-in public officials were happy and eager to defund police...

WHAT did she think then about the consequences? Seriously? She wants to complain NOW and put blame the police for the disorder???? NOT


15 posted on 09/18/2020 6:02:27 AM PDT by SMARTY ('Calling a thing by its right name is the beginning of wisdom.')
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To: lodi90
A leftist mentality boosted by Third World voters

You would think Third Worlders would be able to put 2 and 2 together as to recognize the factors that turned the countries they fled into sh*tholes and vote against those same policies here, but no. "The Bell Curve" is an accurate assessment of the situation.


16 posted on 09/18/2020 6:05:34 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Some stories make this old cynic happy.


17 posted on 09/18/2020 6:18:11 AM PDT by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: hal ogen

coming to a city near you if Biden wins!


18 posted on 09/18/2020 6:21:44 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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coming to a city country near you if Biden wins!

Fixed it.
19 posted on 09/18/2020 6:22:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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My only real sympathies lie with those of the population who would support the police dept. Too bad they couldn’t be in their own separate area of the city where they did support an active police force & an appropriate city council. That would make it a divided city, but I bet lessons could be learned.


20 posted on 09/18/2020 6:26:32 AM PDT by oldtech
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