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The Minneapolis city council wants to dismantle its police force. It may not get the chance, however, as the police officers themselves may accomplish it first. The city has received an overwhelming number of disability claims from law enforcement that might sideline a quarter of its police force. The continued surge of Minneapolis police officers seeking disability benefits after the George Floyd unrest is heightening concerns of a police staffing shortage amid a wave of violent crime. Ron Meuser This is just insane. Putting someone without any law enforcement experience in charge of law enforcement is akin to appointing a...

The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz's request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd's death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a "major disaster" for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd's May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz. The governor's spokesman, Teddy Tschann, confirmed...

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It appears that those in positions of power in Minnesota knew of and encouraged the plan to vandalize the statue of Christopher Columbus that used to sit outside the State Capitol. Governor Tim Walz and those in his inner circle knew about the plan hatched by left wing activists to destroy the statue of Columbus. However, instead of deploying police to protect the icon that was destroyed on Wednesday afternoon, the Walz administration and those close to it promoted hatred of Columbus and publicly entertained the idea that the statue should be removed.

Away it goes. To recap: At 3 p.m., Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington told reporters the State Patrol knew a group planned to tear down the Columbus statue. At 5 p.m., it happened. State Patrol gave no resistance despite advance warning. By 7 p.m., the statue is gone. WATCH.......

A Minneapolis manufacturing company has decided to leave the city, with the company’s owner saying he can’t trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots. The move will cost the city about 50 jobs. “They don’t care about my business,” said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”

An alarming look at what's really going on and the coming war with the enemy within.

BREAKING: The Minneapolis Public Schools board has voted unanimously to terminate their contract with the Minneapolis Police Department. - KARE

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said “nobody really knows” who is driving the raucous violence at protests related to the death of George Floyd and faulted the Justice Department for casting blame on left-wing militants. He said Attorney General William Barr, who pointed to “Antifa-like” tactics in the protests, should be investigating instead of “making incendiary comments.” “The truth is, nobody really knows,” Mr. Ellison told NBC’s Meet the Press. “What the exact political motivation is is unclear at this point.”

As violent protests rage in Minneapolis following the death of a man in police custody, the founder of a leading anti-Israel group lashed out at a Democratic ally who issued a call for calm. Yonah Lieberman, the founder of IfNotNow, a virulently anti-Israel group aligned with far-left Democrats, took aim at Rep. Betty McCollum (D., Minn.) after she issued an appeal for the protesters to end their violent siege of Minneapolis. "Wait what," Lieberman tweeted after McCollum said she was "sickened by the reports of looting in St. Paul." "Betty is a progressive champion on so many issues, but really...

They own it. It’s theirs. After leftist riots killed an African-American Federal Protective Service officer, caused severe injuries, destroyed businesses and vandalized churches and synagogues across Democrat cities, some difficult questions are being asked about what Democrat elected officials could have done to prevent this. Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed President Trump for the violent riots that consumed New York City as well as many other cities across the country. "The President of the United States help create this atmosphere," he falsely claimed. "It doesn't matter what your party affiliation is. It doesn't matter what you think of President Trump,...

Isra Hirsi, co-founder of the “grassroots” anti-capitalist (their term, translated, socialist) US Youth Climate Strike, helped signal boost a list of supplies requested by the Minneapolis branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Minneapolis has once again descended into chaos. The police have retreated. And where is the National Guard? Well, they set up a defensive perimeter, and then they ran away. I’m not kidding. Our own Julio Rosas is on the ground reporting on the chaos and was hit with a rubber bullet in the chest in the process. A curfew was imposed, but of course, no one is following it. Did people think that would be adhered to in this situation? It’s anarchy. It’s chaos. And I guess we cannot be shocked, given that the political leadership gave a stand-down order...

The Talk Shows May 31st, 2020 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Cornel West, Harvard Divinity School. Author Lawrence Wright (“The End of October”). Panel: Michael Anton; Dana Perino; Mo Elleithee. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.). Reporting live from Minneapolis: Shaquille Brewster. Panel: Joshua Johnson; Pat McCrory; María Teresa Kumar. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Floyd family attorney Benjamin Crump. David Brown, superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Tom Wyatt, KinderCare Education. Panel: THIS WEEK (ABC): House Speaker Nancy...

Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting the killing of a black man by a white police officer. At least 13 Biden campaign staff members posted on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they made donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment. The group uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis. Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to Reuters that the...

Sorry, this is a Vanity Post! Just giving you a quick update from the Twin Cities... The Mpls and St Paul Police, along with the National Guard and State Patrol are doing a stellar job of breaking up any problems tonight. They were out early before dark driving protestors away from the 5th Precinct HQ with a barrage of tear gas and fkash bangs. The two latter items are being used liberally across the city. The rioters are scattered in many smaller groups across parts of south Minneapolis. There is no safety in numbers factor for them. The police has...

In a press conference Saturday, St. Paul, Minnesota Mayor Melvin Carter divulged that every person arrested the previous night came from out of state. This mirrors previous riots by antifa and Black Lives Matter that featured professional protesters bused in from out of state into cities across America to foment violence. Mayor Carter says he has been told that every person arrested in Saint Paul last night was from out of state https://t.co/0x8tHbwS8f pic.twitter.com/E1pAOkHtBJ— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 30, 2020 Carter said they didn’t have a lot of arrests, but all came from elsewhere: Because we had a relative stillness...

Tuesday, December 02, 2014 How to Make Your Own Race Riot Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The angry rioter is a sacred figure in the progressive pantheon of social justice. The shirtless men in bandanas carting away cell phones are so outraged by injustice that they are willing to take to the streets and do what progressive hipsters taking social justice selfies of themselves in souvenir t-shirts plastered with the face of the latest victim of “white supremacism” can only dream about. But the saint of the looted convenience store is as mythical a figure as...

William Barr’s big adventure took two huge steps on Saturday. First, Attorney General Barr went out of his way to call out the domestic terrorist and Democrat support group Antifa as one of the main organizers behind the nationwide set of riots happening in Democrat-controlled big cities this weekend. He also took great pains to note that the crossing of state lines to organize or participate in riots is a federal crime Here’s an outtake from his speech: “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda. In many places, it...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he suspects white supremacist groups and drug cartels are carrying out some of the violence in Minneapolis, but cannot confirm it at this time. Walz said the widespread riots across the country appear to be part of a coordinated effort by professionals. “We’re seeing evidence of some pretty sophisticated attempts to cause problems,” the governor said. Harrington said that while they have gotten reports of drug cartels “redirecting their sources to restore their drug markets” in the area amid the unrest, but that is a “secondary or tertiary concern as we’re trying to deal with...