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Oh? Do you think he’ll re-hire Comey, Strzok, Page, Brennan, McCabe, Clapper, Yates, Biden, Obama and the other lawbreakers who used government power to enforce their political point of view?
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For those who may have trouble with cause and effect, here’s the chain of events again:
Evidence? Show me where Gov. Walz or Mayor Frey stated, “We would rather see the city burn” and “It’s all Kroll’s fault.” Do you have such evidence, or is this just another baseless claim by somebody who doesn’t live here and repeats Trump’s charges with no basis.
For those who may have trouble with cause and effect, here’s the chain of events again:
- A decades-long history of a powerful police union in Minneapolis that has multiple suits against it for racism and discrimminataion, headed by Bob Kroll, who again has long history of complaints of racism and multiple lawsuits claiming the same.
- Minneapolis has tried multiple times in the past to reform its police department. The problem has never been able to be rooted out, because poorly performing officers have been protected by the MPD and union. Since 2015, the state legislature has proposed changes but none of them have been passed. In 2015, the Republicans controlled the State House (Source: Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives, 1849-present - Minnesota Legislative Reference Library) and did so until 2019. The state Senate was held by the D’s in 2015 and the R’s in 2017 and has been held by the Republicans since then. (Source: Senate majority and minority leaders, 1933- present - Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)
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- Minneapolis requested a review of its police department by the U.S. Justice Department in 2015. Multiple changes were recommended but the MPD failed or refused to enact them, and again, the union was indifferent, if not outright hostile, to the calls for reform. (Source: Minneapolis Police Missed Reforms Before George Floyd’s Death | The Marshall Project
- Officer Clark (a white man) shot and killed Philando Castille (a Black man) in 2015. The police union defended him. Officer Noor (a Black man) shot and killed Justine Damond (a white woman) in 2017. The department immediately ousted him and the union did not defend him. (Source: Justice is not blind in America. Ask Mohamed Noor. — Sahan Journal)
- Four MPD officers pinned a Black man down at the end of May 2020, while he was begging because he couldn’t breathe while horrified bystanders demanded Officer Chauvin relieve the pressure on him and take his vital signs. George Floyd died, and only after almost a week of protests, were any of the officers fired, and another week passed before they were arrested.
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6.The history of the union protecting fired cops is well documented. This has led to an untenable situation whereby the City is unable to assure that bad cops are weeded out and have no assurance that the MPD will abide by policies to guard against dangerous practices. When the MPD has tried to move against cops with egregious discipline issues, more often than not, they have been protected by the arbitration process, which is guided by state law. Not city law.
All your attempts to smear the city and ignore the legals are offensive, but unoriginal. They come straight from talking heads on the right. Criticisms of the mayor and city are fair and I have my own, but if you’re going to persist in smearing the city, you show some proof for your claims. Because so far, you have produced nothing.
In any case, if Trump gets a second term, he won’t require others around him to assist in criminal behavior. He will be quite capable himself.
All your attempts to smear the city and ignore the legals are offensive, but unoriginal. They come straight from talking heads on the right. Criticisms of the mayor and city are fair and I have my own, but if you’re going to persist in smearing the city, you show some proof for your claims. Because so far, you have produced nothing.
It apparently takes some time for some of us to comprehend the simple legal facts I have stated repeatedly - the police union is certified by the state, and cannot be touched by the city.
You have cites for these individuals being lawless? I don’t need much, just articles stating what crimes they have allegedly committed, how they defied the law or ignored it, and what the charges are that have been filed in court.
In any case, if Trump gets a second term, he won’t require others around him to assist in criminal behavior. He will be quite capable himself.
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Again, produce evidence for your claim, “They didn’t even try to stop it.” I can produce evidence that the police were overwhelmed and their efforts were not enough. But I know you won’t ever back up your claims, you just deny them with more baseless assertions. It’s clear to me you have no interest in an actual discussion. Only in pushing a narrative with no evidence.
Is misquoting someone considered “bearing false witness?” I believe it is. Shameful. I’m not even a theist, but I know better than to attribute a racist statement falsely to you. I said “brown shirts,” which is a fundamentally different term than you attributed to me. But, I guess that is how your mind interpreted it.
Reporting you for attributing a false claim against me.
The brown shirt mercenaries sent to Portland did not need to riot to break the law egregiously. They only need to snatch American citizens and haul them away without reading them their Miranda rights, informing them they were under arrest, or even identifying by what authority they had to detain American citizens.
Governor Walz, having proper respect for the law, unlike President Trump, elected to respond to criminal behavior not by breaking the law, himself, or inducing fascist secret police to do so. He sent in the National Guard to quell the unrest. It worked.
Meanwhile, the protests continue in Portland.
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The Mayor of Minneapolis says Walz did not send in the Guard in time, after 2, and I think 3 nights of mayhem.
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Yes, they have a dispute about when the NG should have been deployed. This does not equate to them wanting the city to burn down, or being for lawlessness. This had to do with real-time developments on the ground.
At no point did Walz say, “Too bad, Frey, I want your city to burn. I’m not sending the guard until that happens.”
And at NO POINT did Walz send in mysterious, unidentified secret police to target us peaceful protesters, or shove us into vans and take us to undisclosed locations. These are what TRUMP’S forces did in Portland.
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I didn’t. But I don’t need to be in this kind of conversation.
Biden just supports the mayors and governors who allow the violence. Then he blames Trump. By blaming he violence on Trump, he is clearly defending his party’s progressive mayors.
Only recently has he even tepidly condemned the violence, and then only in general terms, much like Pelosi and the house deciding not to condemn the anti-Semitic comments by a representative from Minnesota.
So, his voters in BLM and the fascist black shirts in Antifa are destroying cities all over the country, none of whom are Trump voters, and the violence is Trump’s fault.
Trump doesn’t run police departments. Mayors do.
Trump isn’t responsible for protecting the property of citizens in Minneapolis And other cities, the progressive mayors are. And they Intentionally choose not to.
Biden then defends them by blaming Trump.
Biden tries to blame Trump for Democrat-run cities’ unrest: Goodwin
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