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Armed Minneapolis Residents Are Patrolling Their Own Neighborhoods As City Moves To Defund Police
By Daily Wire, July 28l 2020:
Story continues below advertisementMinneapolis residents have begun patrolling their own neighborhoods after violent crime across the city surged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in late May.
The patrols, some armed, are part of a largely grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods, businesses, and residents from rioters and criminals. Some groups have constructed barriers at the entrance to their neighborhoods and control who can enter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Minneapolis Police Department has emphasized that, though elected officials and some protesters are pushing to defund law enforcement, officers remain on patrol throughout the city. The department approves of neighborhood watch groups working in coordination with police and emergency services as long as the watch groups avoid vigilantism and do not set up autonomous zones like the recently abolished one in Seattle.
“We have long supported neighborhood patrols. All laws must be obeyed by those engaging in these patrols,” Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder told WSJ. “We have been clear these are in supplement to the police department and not as a substitute.”
Some in the community may see the neighborhood patrols as alternatives to city law enforcement, however.
“I am hesitant to call the police,” 30-year-old Kadence Hampton said. “They are not proactively preventing any type of harm. When they do show up, they escalate things. I am not convinced calling the police is the safest thing to do.”
Crime surged across the city after civil and violent unrest broke out in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Floyd died in police custody after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Cell phone video of the incident set off mass protests as well as riots that rocked major U.S. cities.
Gun crime across the city has surged in the past two months to historic highs. Already, the number of victims from gun violence in the city has topped the annual totals for eight of the past 10 years. The large majority of victims, over 80%, are black, according to police data.
The Minneapolis city council took the first concrete step toward defunding its police department on Friday, cutting $1.5 million from the department’s budget. The council voted unanimously in June on a resolution calling for the police department to be abolished.
The riots have caused an estimated $500 million worth of damage to businesses, homes, and other buildings in Minneapolis and nearby St. Paul. In early July, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sent a request to the Trump administration for federal funds to help and rebuild the metro area. President Trump, who has criticized elected officials for not cracking down on violence in major cities, rejected the request.
“The Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial support,” Walz’s office said in a statement. “As we navigate one of the most difficult periods in our state’s history, we look for support from our federal government to help us through.”
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3 years ago
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Great words of truth -> Tho is waaaay better with the figure of a “Minuteman” = not a “Deaths Head” SS symbol.
Humans skulls seems to be a popular rage now just because “someone” put it out there….kids think its cool = NOT.
I personally have a bad feeling for the pirate death symbol;
– tho always feel good seeing 1776 Mnuteman freefom symbol holding a Kentucky long-rifle…!
Just my take on this fade of late…!
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Thanks for your service. Hawaii must have been a great place to serve.
3 years ago
Self defense works
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
That’s why they want to take away our guns – NO SELF DEFENSE!
We’d be at the mercy of a corrupt government and criminals they embrace.
3 years ago
Meanwhile, reality moves onward while the Left dreams on…
3 years ago
This is what BLM and the leftists wanted. No police and a community administration of civil protection. This is what they wanted but didn’t expect conservatives to take this step. They thought they would be in charge and determine who would be patrolling the street.
Their great dream of social worker and BLM acting as police backfiring on them. Ha!
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
Are these normals setting up neighborhood watch? Or is it no go zones and sharia patrols?
In Mogadishuapolis, the second option is more likely the case, and I wouldn’t say that is anything to applaud.
3 years ago
About time people make the Mayors and other officials feel very unwelcomed to live in their own state.
3 years ago
no sympathy, they voted for this idiocy
3 years ago
Reply to
joe shmoe
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” – George Orwell
3 years ago
Ironic:
BLM controlled by a Hungarian white man,….and the Clintons.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
You hold dual citizenship between here and Assholeville. You should give up one of them
3 years ago
Reply to
Sewer Maintenance
45 Communist goals for America
https://www.theblaze.com/video/45-communist-goals-for-america
The 45 Goals of Communism W. Cleon Skousen Wrote About in 1958
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-45-goals-of-communism-w.-cleon-skousen-wrote-about-in-1958
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
soros is Hungarian and should be sent to Hungary. He is responsible for the deaths of Hungarian Jews. He may be jewish by ethnicity but he is one of the most virulent antisemites.
He should be stripped of the Manerican citizenship
3 years ago
Reply to
tjke
Hungary and most all other nations won’t take him, stated for him to stay out or have arrest warrant out on him…!
3 years ago
Reply to
tjke
I’m not defending Soros, just pointing out that he’s American. That’s why, like Bloomberg, he can provide financial support to Leftist causes and PACs.
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
Don’t forget a jew hating jew and nazi colaborator who’s life dream is to destroy the USA and said he would use the “black race becasue they are easiest to manipulate” his words.
3 years ago
All of this madness is occurring in Democratic-controlled single-party cities. At what point do useful idiots regain their sanity. Maybe never.
3 years ago
Good for those neighbors protecting their property and families. It is obvious the authorities do not give a toss, the anti-law enforcement cabal of Marxists and anarchists are bent on running the city into the ground. If the taxpayers, citizens, business owners have to stand shoulder-to-shoulder via as vigilantes, so be it. One can only hope that the city implodes, which it shall, eliminating the treasonous mayor and other authorities. It is up to the people/voters to change their city, state, and nation in the upcoming election: will they? In the end, it may be too late.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Please stop referring to the AntifaBLM thugs as “anarchists”, when they’ve proven by their actions that they’re Fascists, plain and simple. “Anarchy” doesn’t mean “no society”; it means “no government”, which is something else again. The citizen-militia vigilantes are the true Anarchists, because they’re organizing, defending, and governing *themselves* against the Left-Fascist thugs. The govt. that was supposed to protect its citizens has betrayed them to the Fascist mob, which means the citizens have no choice but to defend themselves. Once they’ve restored social order, those citizens should throw the politicians out — out of office, out of their city, and out of the state.
3 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
Perhaps, I was not concise regarding BLM, ANTIFA, and Anarchists. BLM has touted its Marxist mandate, ANTIFA is a hodge-podge, a fusing of Marxist/Fascist diktats. Anarchy is a society freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a social-disorder, group of people that reject a dominant hierarchy.
These elements, including the faux-Democrats, are cohesive for the moment with a common cause, the Downfall of this Constitutional Republic. I usually differentiate these said radicalized elements; if not, I am sure most posts distinguish the reported differences. Relax, and smell the coffee; one day ‘We the People’ may be denied that right.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Thank you for clearing that up. I daresay that We the People have more guts than to kowtow to the program, as these citizens have proved.
3 years ago
Reply to
LeslieFish
Indeed,it is up to ‘We the People’ to take back our freedom from the grasp of the faux-Democrats and the legions of dissenters, more so, terrorists. The Democrats continue to underestimate ‘We the People’; their fortitude and patriotism. They were not savvy in 2016 election that trend continues. Have a great weekend LeslieFish, stay safe, and healthy.
3 years ago
and people wonder why gun sales are through the roof.
3 years ago
Amazing!
They don’t want law enforcement to do their job. They want to defund police, but want FEDERAL money to piss away at damage they allowed to happen. Nope. Find another way to pay for your ongoing mess, damage and lawlessness. Other states and tax payers don’t want the bill via our tax dollars va federal money. Suck a lemon.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Pennies on the dollar would go towards shoddy repair of damage. The “surplus” would make into somebody’s pocket and offshore bank account. The DemonRats have run these cities into the gutter spent and stole countless hundreds of millions. Promised everything short of heaven itself to the government employee golden this golden that. They have nothing to back it up. A rude awakening for the fire department the LEO’s etc when these cities do default. They will have nothing except their savings to fall back on. Property values will tank so their homes will be half price.
3 years ago
Vigilantism will make a huge come back!
3 years ago
Great…and use those weapons when needed!!!!!!
3 years ago
Finally, open season on these criminal thugs that riot.
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
But…finding a taxidermist to mount these trophies will be challenging…at best! S.S.S!
3 years ago
Reply to
Jimmy
follow them home… Burn that…. but they are in mom’s basement ans she is innocent
3 years ago
In other words, the cops are calling out the militia.
3 years ago
When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.
Living in a rural setting, I keep a loaded weapon within easy reach and never leave home unarmed. If I return home and find intruders, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel.
It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
The old fashioned way. Not all of us live urban, this type of vigilance is a given here.
3 years ago
We’re evolving into tribalism, each tribe protecting itself from the other evil tribe. Sort of like the Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites in the middle east. The goal is to exterminate the other tribe because you are raised from birth to hate them.
3 years ago
Bottom line:
A vote for a democrat is a vote to put America under islamic, sharia slavery! The tearing down of our statues and monuments are a moslem mandate and they are duping the black community to do their deeds.
The moslems have totally corrupted the education system and by putting the obama into office has magnified the destructive efforts.
3 years ago
Self defense works, but the city is turning into Mogadishu Somalia, war lords and all. Third world shi*hole just like Seattle, Portland, Chicago, LA, etc.
3 years ago
Yes, it is Soros motto. He is one of the worst criminals in the history of the US. Why has he still American citizenship? He has most of his money outside the US so that he doesn´t need to pay taxes
3 years ago
We need a neighborhood defense app militia.
3 years ago
This is where the 2nd Amendment comes in… ” a well-regulated militia” meaning: the PEOPLE….
They are taking responsibility for their safety when their local government won’t.
3 years ago
Beginning to sound like somalia
3 years ago
Libs get the money.. invite them top burn it again. There are still destructo craps running it. Looks like a tranvestite convention at the city council. google them. don ‘t give a dime
