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Students See Spike in Reported Violent Crime After U. Minnesota Cuts Ties to Minneapolis Police

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 08, 2020 10 Comments

"students received multiple systemwide public safety alert messages, telling them to be cautious on and near campus due to various reported violent crimes"...

Grad Students at U. Minnesota Demand More Anti-Racism Initiatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 30, 2020 1 Comment

"update curriculum to address systemic racism and create a learning environment that is welcoming to all students, not just those who are white"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHIBL2wqyI

Minneapolis Declares Racism a Public Health Emergency

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 17, 2020 47 Comments

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to declare racism a public health emergency and vowed"to allocate funding and other resources to “name, reverse, and repair the harm done” to people of color in the city."

Trump Admin Denies Minneapolis $500m Riot Damage Bailout Request

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 11, 2020 67 Comments

Begun as a truly peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the protests quickly devolved into riots, looting, arson . . . and, eventually, perhaps inevitably, murder. This conflagration of lawlessness quickly morphed into a nation-wide push by various aligned Marxist and anarchist groups to destroy America, capitalism, history, our very culture and our heritage. Minnesota was ground zero for the rampaging rioting, looting, arson, vandalism, and murder spree that is still engulfing parts of our great nation.

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1280562421040656395

Ilhan Omar Urges ‘Dismantling the Whole System of Oppression,’ Including the Economy

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 08, 2020 56 Comments

Why did Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) move to America if it's so oppressive and racist? Omar delivered a speech with the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous Caucus in her home state. The press conference "was to address 'racism in policing' in the aftermath of George Floyd's death."

University of Minnesota Dropping SAT/ACT Tests as Admissions Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 02, 2020 8 Comments

"citing the challenge of scheduling tests during the pandemic"...

https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-council-members-get-private-security-after-threats

Minneapolis City Council Members Who Voted to Defund Police Get Taxpayer Funded Private Security

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 28, 2020 33 Comments

The City Council of Minneapolis recently voted unanimously to defund the city's police department. Now certain members of the council claim they are getting threats, so they have been given private security. At taxpayer expense, naturally.

Theater Prof Resigns, Citing Fear of Her White Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 26, 2020 24 Comments

“This type of white rage is real for many of us.”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViiPY5oY_6w

Minneapolis Neighborhood Promised to “Check its Privilege”, Then a 300-Strong Homeless Camp Moved In

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 25, 2020 76 Comments

This is so perfect. An uber-progressive neighborhood in Minneapolis has vowed not to call the cops on people in the community and instead to utilize the American Indian Movement to help solve local grievances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jE_sPSVxhk

Minneapolis Manufacturer Leaving After Plant Burned During Riots: ‘They Didn’t Protect Our People’

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 09, 2020 97 Comments

Kris Wyrobek, president and CEO of 7-Sigma, decided to move his business out of Minneapolis after rioters burned his plant to the ground. Wyrobek does not "trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn." The city will lose 50 jobs.

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1269981173746262016?s=21

Minneapolis City Council President: Ability to Call Police Over Robbery ‘Comes From a Place of Privilege’

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 08, 2020 115 Comments

The Minneapolis city council voted to abolish the Minneapolis police department. CNN's Alisyn Camerota asked Bender who people will call if someone robbed their home. President Lisa Bender said the ability to call the police in that case "comes from a place of privilege."

https://twitter.com/CTUL_TC/status/1269396638411481094

VIDEO: Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Kicked Out of Protest and Taunted When Refuses to Defund Police

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2020 114 Comments

The thing about revolutionary mobs is that eventually they consume their own. Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who made headlines yesterday by ostentatiously crying at the casket of George Floyd, found that out today.

Keith Ellison Chosen to Lead Prosecution in George Floyd Case

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 01, 2020 68 Comments

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will lead the prosecution in the George Floyd case with assistance from Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. It turns out "some elected officials and the Minnesota chapter of the" ACLU demanded a special prosecutor since the community does not trust Freeman. You guys might remember Ellison as a former Democratic congressman. His ex-girlfriend accused him of pulling her around the bedroom by her hair. He also publicly supported ANTIFA.

U. Minnesota Cutting Ties With Minneapolis Police but Students Say it’s Not Enough

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 31, 2020 8 Comments

"Student groups from the University of Minnesota are calling for the complete abolition of any police presence on campus"...

George Floyd Autopsy: “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2020 138 Comments

The video of George Floyd pinned down on his stomach, hands cuffed behind him, with Officer Derek Chauvin pinning him down with a knee to the neck, is hard to watch. Among other things, Floyd pleads with the officers that he can't breath.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/29/van_jones_its_not_the_racist_white_person_we_have_to_worry_about_its_the_white_liberal_hillary_clinton_supporter.html?jwsource=cl

Van Jones: Blacks need to worry more about the “white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter”

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on May 29, 2020 20 Comments

In a CNN segment discussing the riots in Minneapolis over George Floyd's death, Obama administration alum Van Jones, said, "It's not the racist white person who is in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about," Jones said. "It's the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park."

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1266222112458629120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

MSNBC Reporter Describes Minneapolis “Protest” as “Not, Generally Speaking, Unruly” as He Stands in Front of Burning Building

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 29, 2020 48 Comments

MSNBC is so laughable. Reporter Ali Velshi said on air that the Minneapolis protests in response to the George Floyd killing are generally "unruly." Velshi said this as he stood in front of a burning building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHtmJ5RIhw

Dem Anger Grows at Klobuchar Earlier Failure to Prosecute Cop Involved in George Floyd Killing

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 29, 2020 27 Comments

Sen. Amy Klobuchar came under fire on Wednesday when a report revealed that back in 2006 she did not prosecute the policeman who allegedly murdered George Floyd. Kemberlee noted that she blew her chance to become Biden's VP. But the left and right came out in full force on social media, dragging Klobuchar through the burning coals for her horrible decision.

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