[VIDEO] Rich Lowry talks about Minnesota being a very liberal state and has become a hotbed of radical progressive and far-left activity. Also discussing the current politicians such as Gov. Tim Walz - whom as a result of the emerging Somali financial fraud scandal was forced to abandon his bid for a third term as MN Governor.
Also the very feckless Mayor of Minneapolis - Jacob Frey. Lowry notes incredulously that he's actually a moderate who's at odds with a very progressive and far-left city council. He seems to like to virtue signal - and he was heavy on it in 2020 after what happened to George Floyd in his city - it seems evident that even these radicals still can't stand him.
Lowry seems to think things could be even crazier. I'd rather hope not and there's a segment of the electorate that's sick of this non-sense and vote for someone who will put an end to it.
[VIDEO] What happened to George Floyd happened over four years ago, and people were finding ways to justify mass protest and violent looting during a global pandemic.
First I sort of agree that the officer who is the face of what happened to Floyd - Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin - was largely railroaded. It wasn't so much that he was guilty for the fate of Geo. Floyd, but that people wanted him to be guilty. Emotions overrode the facts of the case.
While I didn't follow this case very closely I was aware that an autopsy showed that what likely killed Floyd was the fentanyl in his system. Also even the Minneapolis police chief of that time admitted in court that in another angle of Floyd's arrest that Chauvin's knee was between his shoulder blades not his neck. And remember Chauvin for whatever reason killed Floyd by placing his knee on his neck.
Of course Liberal Hivemind explores the circumstances where Chauvin was accused of murder in this situation. There were a few things that just didn't add up here.
In this video he shows excerpts of a documentary that explores the George Floyd narrative. He never mentioned the title of the film which I believe is entitled The Fall of Minneapolis. If you believe someone like a Laura Ingram from FOX News that city hasn't recovered from the destruction of the riots "peaceful protests" that took place after his death.
I have to find this documentary and see what it says. Though one thing that figures was the small bag of narcotics that George Floyd had in his mouth. And of course more than the viral footage that we're most familiar with - that showed Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck, allegedly - we see how the narrative begins to take hold. Several politicians and activists from the Mayor of Minneapolis, to Al Sharpton to Don Lemon to even Speaker Nancy Pelosi, those individuals could never say the actual amount of time that George Floyd was restrained.
Look the question we have to ask ourselves is how much did the media fail to inform us on this story? What details were missed? I had in the heat of the moment consider police actions callous in this situation but then again I knew only what was being said on TV.
Perhaps Chauvin and the other officers who responded didn't exactly exhibit good judgement. Perhaps they did everything they could in this situation. They may have attempted to insure that Floyd get medical care from paramedics because I learned in this video for the first time that these officers called an ambulance. They weren't about to let that man lay on the ground and not attempt to have a paramedic check him out.
If you're a thinking person hopefully what happened with Floyd causes you to keep asking questions about that whole situation.
On this blog I rarely go heavily into political analysis other than what's already in the news. I just found this interesting from primary nite in Minnesota. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is one of the members of The Squad often a group of female members of the US House of Representatives such as AOC, Ayana Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and more recently Cori Bush. The Squad is are very progressive Democratic socialists who hold such views as defund police.
Samuels argued that Omar is divisive and helped defeat a ballot question last year that sought to replace the city police department with a new public safety unit. He and others also successfully sued the city to force it to meet minimum police staffing levels called for in Minneapolis' charter.
Samuels said his narrow loss shows that Omar is beatable: “If this was the general election, no doubt that we would have won this race." Omar countered, “Tonight’s victory is a testament to how much our district believes in the collective values we are fighting for.”
What I see in that article is a lot of references to "defund the police" and Rep. Omar is a proponent. She still won however.
Last week Laura Ingraham visited those parts of Minneapolis that were heavily affected by the rioting after George Floyd's death in 2020. Those viewing her FOX News program found that the high crime has even bled into downtown MPLS. Police staffing levels are lower since the political establishment there aren't putting much effort into meeting minimum staffing levels. They may still believe in this idea as noted in the quote above of "abolish the police".
Of course here's one thing that confuses me:
“She’s had a lot of adversity already and pushback. I don’t think her work is done,” said Kathy Ward, a 62-year-old property caretaker for an apartment building in Minneapolis who voted for Omar. “We’ve got to give her a chance.”
A chance for what exactly? More of the same. She needs more of a chance to abolish police.
A PJ Media article discussing a ruling in Minnesota regarding the staffing of sworn police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city charter there requires the city to have a certain level of staffing according to the population so the staffing should be at 731 police officers.
Of course as you know perhaps a year after the devastating riots in the wake of George Floyd's death there was an attempt to change the Minneapolis city charter which was thankfully denied by voters. Bear in mind many activists there wanted to abolish the police department and create a dept. of public safety. They wanted to reimagine policing. It's only mentioned in this article that Minneapolis fell in for the defund police craze.
They also mention the mayor Jacob Frey kneeling and weeping at the casket of George Floyd described as "a drug-addled drifter who was stopped by police outside a store where the owner claimed he and his cohorts were passing fake $20 bills. Floyd was under the influence of fentanyl and meth, a heart-slowing cocktail of drugs, which was exacerbated by Officer Derek Chauvin holding Floyd down with his knee." And he was effectively rejected in his efforts to curry favor with defund police and BLM activists in a humiliating scene recorded by anything from a news camera to smartphone cameras.
Of course when you place greater scrutiny on police or you keep police from doing their jobs in serving and protecting the police (though in fact insuring that for criminals there are immediate consequences for their actions), then what happens, more crime. Which brought about this lawsuit in Minneapolis which ruled that the City of Minneapolis must insure the appropriate staffing of police or explain why they are unable to do so.
Sadly we are still suffering the consequences of the disruption of over two years ago. Following the trend of "wokeness" from that period of time. Buying into the new trendy terms of "systemic racism" or even "evil whiteness". To be honest no one can define these two things, in my opinion.
[VIDEO] Actually the title to this video from FOX News is inaccurate I believe what was on the ballot in MPLS, Minnesota is actually a plan to dismantle or abolish the MPLS Police Dept. and create a city Dept. of Public Safety. They needed to rewrite the portion of that city's charter to effectively abolish the police dept.
And thankfully with all the unrest from last year and rising crime there the people in MPLS have thought better of it. I wonder how low morale is with those police officers who remain on the force.
Yeah it seemed like such a good idea after the death of George Floyd while in police custody and then not long after that the city tears itself apart. A mayor who was seen kneeling and weeping at Floyd's casket (who just so happened to have been re-elected on Tuesday) although he didn't agree with abolishing the police dept.
Anyway, I only visited MPLS once a relative was graduating college up there in the 90s. It seemed like a very nice Midwestern big city it was certainly an exotic locale. Unfortunately how long will it take for that city recover from the destruction by some of its own residents?
The article I wanted to share about Mayor Frey's re-election should scare any jurisdiction from even thinking about use rank choice voting. There was nothing wrong with first past the post, why do progressives think they can reinvent the wheel?
[VIDEO] I didn't intend for Liberal Hivemind to dominate these last three posts however they've been on a roll.
Perhaps it's about time the Black community of Minneapolis wakes up and realizes who's destroying their communities. No money is coming from the BLM Global Foundation, they did pretty well last year enough for Tucker Carlson to call them a very powerful political movement.
Of course Hivemind points to the so-called "Latte Liberals" they might not have a clue as they may not live in crime ridden poor minority communities. If some of the pain in those communities reach them in their nice communities then they might think differently. Who knows...
Either way could it be the pendulum beginning to shift with everything going on in America right now. High crime, inflation, economic stagnation, etc.
I wish Hivemind would list his sources for any video sound bite or even newsarticles...
[VIDEO] On FOX & Friends this morning two Minneapolis resident actually one of them Don Samuels (on TV with is wife Sondra) is a former member of the Minneapolis City Council are against a proposal on the ballot there to replace the Minneapolis Police Dept. with a Dept of Public Safety. This Public Safety will be staffed by so-called "peace officers" and are not only responsible to the Mayor of Minneapolis as M.P.D. currently is but would be responsible to the Mayor and the 13 members of the city council.
Samuels and his wife sees this as a bad plan that could cause other problems on top of rising crime due to the heightened scrutiny placed on police and very lax pursuit of a variety of violent crime cases by prosecutors in cities around the country. And furthermore attempting to essentially abolish M.P.D. will prove to be adverse to Black Americans who unfortunately are disproportionately affected by crime.
Rightfully Sondra Samuels recognizes that this move is more of a national campaign and isn't supported by Minneapolis citizens. They recognize this would likely eliminate their homegrown Black police chief in addition to mandated language with regards to M.P.D. in the Minneapolis City Charter especially as far as how many police officers per 1000 residents of the city.
There is no plan, the funding for police goes away and as mention the control of the peace officers is under so many people. I'm glad to hear that the progressive champion Mayor Jacob Frey is opposed to this issue to the point where last year he wouldn't agree to abolishing police and got chased away by activist who are dead set on abolishing police.
I see that in spite of an increase in crime up there in the Twin Cities - even with a shooting caught on camera near where George Floyd died - there are still those there even if this is a nat'l campaign who still think abolishing police is a genius idea. Let's keep an eye on this.
[VIDEO] I mentioned this in the Tim Pool post so we let Hivemind discuss this situation in Minneapolis. A memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis near where he died had blocked an intersection was dismantled yesterday by the city of Minneapolis.
The city isn't directly taking credit for this but instead has allowed a community group Agape who is connected with BLM to be the public face of this effort. Even they recognize that its time to open that area up and concern themselves with the young lives that have been threatened by the violence near that area. Just remember not that long ago there was a shooting there in broad daylight.
My response to this it's a good that this intersection will soon be opened up and perhaps business will recover once traffic rolls through again. Also the situation there has been out of control since that memorial was created we've been knowing about the safety issues since last year. Time to get a handle on them, we can continue to look at issues with policing but that area should be a safe neighborhood.
[VIDEO] It was in the news yesterday that the city of Minneapolis is taking down George Floyd's memorial near where he died under the restraint of former officer Derek Chauvin. Yeah I know some of you want to say killed, I'll allow you that.
Anyway, there were no riots over that though I'm sure people were upset about dismantling "sacred space". The BLM riots were over police shooting an armed fugitive near that site.
As for dismantling the site I would say it's about time as that area has become dangerous over time. It was advised you don't go up at nite and recently there was a shooting in broad daylight. And then this, I suppose anytime police does anything people will stir up problems.
BTW, I like this comment to this video:
I’ve never seen anywhere else where “oppressed” people were allowed to loot, arson and take over city blocks with little to no repercussions…
[VIDEO] We've already been hearing about how crime increases at nite at the sight of where George Floyd had died when he was stopped by police just about a year ago. Well how about this representation of how crime ridden the surrounding area has become. It's astonishing that the media is there to record gunshots being fired near by.
This is not normal. This should not be normal. What happened to George Floyd as tragic as it was led to calls to abolish police or defund police and certainly to dismantle the criminal justice system and it's only led to the footage you see above from NBC News. This is a testament to what all of those things I just noted will bring...
Even the trial judge in the recently concluded case admitted there were some grounds for appeal in the case of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was the officer who allegedly had the knee on the neck of one George Floyd and he was convicted for being the cause of Floyd's death when he was in Chauvin's custody.
In papers filed Tuesday in Hennepin County Court, attorney Eric Nelson argues that Chauvin’s murder trial should have been moved to a different city, and said publicity surrounding the trial was “pervasive” and “prejudicial.”
“The court abused its discretion when it failed to sequester the jury for the duration of the trial, or in the least, admonish them to avoid all media, which resulted in jury exposure to prejudicial publicity regarding the trial during the proceedings,” Nelson wrote, “as well as jury intimidation and potential fear of retribution among jurors….”
Nelson also accused prosecutors and Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill of “multiple errors in these proceedings,” which he said deprived Chauvin of a fair trial.
We shall see if Chauvin will be successful in his appeals. Chauvin has a right to a fair trial and I hate to see a man even if guilty essentially railroaded by the criminal justice system. A lot of people wanted Chauvin to be guilty, however, in my mind there is some reasonable doubt that he's directly responsible for Floyd's death.
[VIDEO] What Ami Horowitz is doing? I don't know how he does it, find people that has very extreme views such as it. Everyone thinks it's OK to burn the city down and everyone he's interviewed things we should dispense with due process. Everyone here thinks Derek Chauvin is guilty and is already conviction.
All the people interviewed here, have no idea what they're asking for. They're asking for no due process, they're asking for more violence. They have no concept of what this all means and could turn around onto them. They'll have caused their own hurt and pain!
[VIDEO] Tim Pool discusses the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. Two jurors were removed from this case because of their views on a settlement by the city of Minneapolis to the family of George Floyd. If you want to learn more Powerline Blog out of Minnesota has more.
Pool states as I have that no matter the outcome of this trial no one will be happy. And at worst another round of unrest will occur there. Also, he mentions the police excluded autonomous zone that exists where Floyd has passed away.
While considered a shrine for another Black man who died after he was arrested by police, however, proves to be a very violence "peaceful" zone at night. You create a place for peace and remembrance but once the sun comes down it becomes a lawless violent zone.
[VIDEO] The trial of Derek Chauvin commenced and was immediately postponed because prosecution want to add the additional charge of third degree murder in addition to second degree murder and manslaughter. Also the trial of the three other officers involved in the death of George Floyd last year will commence after the Chauvin trial.
Bill O'Reilly on No Spin News states that with all the lawyers involved directly in the trial Chauvin is expected to get a fair trial. And besides that's what our criminal justice system is based on, however, because of what happened that fateful day near the end of May 2020 his life is ruined. Former Officer Chauvin lost his job, his wife, and for a good period of time his freedom.
As I stated in an earlier post he has the right to a fair trial, he should have a fair trial, he deserves a fair trial. However, I doubt anyone will be very happy with whatever outcome will result. If he gets pinched on manslaughter there could be trouble, if he's even acquitted there will be trouble.
At the same time we have to actually establish that Chauvin and those other three officers are solely responsible for Floyd's death while under restraint. I do believe in spite of the images of that interaction seen since, that is very difficult to prove very fairly. The last thing I want to see is a man sent to jail for a long time for something that he really isn't responsible for.
The Powerline Blog is based out of Minnesota and is also written by attorneys. They look at the "tale of the tape" for the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. Chauvin was the Minneapolis Police Officer who's charge with murder in the death of George Floyd. It touched off riots around the nation and protests around the world. Something we still haven't entirely settled down from, just look at what's happened in Portland, Ore. since then.
Either way the Minnesota Attorney General's office is handling the prosecution in this case. Minneapolis is based in Hennepin County and their district attorney's have been sidelined. And I want to share this:
• The court has set up a page for the Chauvin case here. All public filings in the case by the parties or the court are posted on that page. Separate pages have been set up for the three former officers also charged with responsibility for Floyd’s death. The separate pages for their cases are accessible on Chauvin’s page.
Also these thoughts:
• The charges against Chauvin were brought in a lynch mob atmosphere led by Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. They publicly pronounced Chauvin and the other officers guilty many times over last spring and summer.
• Those of us who took up law and/or journalism may have been inspired by Atticus Finch or John Adams or Woodward and Bernstein, but when the time came to face down the mob or talk back to the authorities, the lawyers and media took their places in the crowd.
• Take the Star Tribune, for example. As the lynch mob formed and the city burned, the cat had their tongue. Star Tribune commentary editor D.J. Tice wrote an excellent column on “the challenge of a fair trial for Chauvin.” The column was published on February 20 — a little late in the game. And it stands more or less alone. (I raised the fair trial issue last year in posts including “Random thoughts on the Floyd case.”)
The blogger here Scott Johnson takes a look at the lead prosecutor in this case and the judge and mentions an appeal as far as the other charge to Chauvin of third degree murder which the judge in this case Peter Cahill had dropped. It seems Johnson likes Judge Cahill, however, once the trail begins we'll see how this goes.
Chauvin deserves a free trial, however, there are people out there who believe he is guilty. Better yet they want him to be guilty. Being guilty and wanting someone to be guilty are two different things. I went back and forth myself on this. All I can say is Chauvin is innocent until proven guilty and sadly this is one of those cases where I don't think anyone will be happy with the results.
Today we're going back to what caused me to write daily updates to this blog for the first time in years. I was dismayed by this unrest over the past summer and we're already in a time of crisis with this pandemic, something I really haven't wrote much about here. Insanity is thinking that we don't need police and we need to abolish or defund them and have social workers come out instead.
Of course if anyone advocates for that IMHO I just see groups of people who themselves are lawless. They're vandalizing property - i.e. property that's not theirs - they're engaging in destruction. They're the ones who think looting is reparations and simple penance to insure they have clothes or food.
So let's state something, the moment you decided you can diminish police what happens, well crime goes up. What a surprise, there are always going to be people who don't respect the people around them and their property. Policing isn't perfect, but they're necessary for a society.
Let's look at Tim Pool talking about what's going on in Minneapolis. It seems for a while the leaders up there were trending back towards maybe they realized their folly and then it seems they're continuing their push to defund their police. Meanwhile carjackings are up 537%.... [VIDEO]
Minneapolis officials are considering bringing in officers from other jurisdictions to help the city’s Police Department as they face a wave of violent crime and an officer shortage.
If the mayor and City Council approve the plan, officers from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit Police would temporarily work with the city, primarily helping to respond to violent 911 calls.
“We’re not gonna be having these people out taking bicycle theft reports. These are going to be people out combating crime issues,” said John Elder, a spokesman for Minneapolis police.
The officers would form Joint Enforcement Teams, known as JETs. Elder said the city has relied on such teams in the past, particularly to help in areas where violence was spiking.
Yeah "we don't want no more police" is such a winner in the long run is it?
The infamous Derek Chauvin has been released from custody earlier this month is back in the news today. I shared a tweet of this news. Here's what happened from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
A judge on Thursday dashed the hopes of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill dropped a lower-level murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, but kept a higher-level murder count against him. Cahill also ruled that there was enough evidence for jurors to decide whether three other former officers should be convicted of aiding and abetting charges.
The judge dismissed a third-degree murder count against Derek Chauvin but ruled that he will remain charged with one count each of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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A judge on Thursday dashed the hopes of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill dropped a lower-level murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, but kept a higher-level murder count against him. Cahill also ruled that there was enough evidence for jurors to decide whether three other former officers should be convicted of aiding and abetting charges.
The judge dismissed a third-degree murder count against Derek Chauvin but ruled that he will remain charged with one count each of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.
All we can do at this point is wait and see. It seems Chauvin and as it turns out his three other colleagues will still have to answer for what happened on Memorial Day 2020. Of course some other visual evidence came out since the initial unrest which seems to show the whole police stop not only the point where George Floyd was restrained by Chavin's knee on his neck.
Count me in as one of those people who was ready to through the book at the former Minneapolis policeman. Now I'm not so sure how any charges will hold up. Sadly many people have made up their mind on this issue and in spite of the new evidence views this as a malicious racially motivated police death.
I wanted to share this video by ABL on this subject. He's also not so sure how these charges will hold up. He doesn't see where Chauvin and his colleagues could be responsible for Floyd's death as tragic as it was and sadly as tragic as it became around the nation with all the unrest. [VIDEO]
[VIDEO] Tim Pool talks about what happens when cities such as New York City or Minneapolis choose to defund police. The NY Police Commissioner knows defunding the police affected people living in low-income or people of color areas. Minneapolis has been documented has been seeing high levels of crime i the wake of George Floyd's death.
In fact a shrine for George Floyd in Minneapolis has reportedly seen a lot of crime especially at night.
He really tears into the Minneapolis City Council who voted to defund and abolish their police. Pool thinks these politicians there just looked at twitter and they went with it. And now they hear it from their constituents about high crime. Worse still the city council president is quoted here, however, earlier this summer she was quoted as saying calling police is privilege....
Of course couple this with the ongoing controversy of mask wearing or social distancing. A woman in Ohio was arrested by police for not wearing a mask while watching a youth football game and although she was socially distanced from everyone else. A preacher was arrested for singing outdoors in Moscow, Idaho without a mask.
Also I want to note civilians and police were clashing in London. This is also about these restrictions with regards to the coronavirus. I hear London is experiencing a surge in new infections recently.
So we get police abuse with regards to coronavirus, however, to re-imagine policing there's a roadblock - high crime. Police needs reforms I can agree with that, however, to say everything that's wrong with the world is police and we don't need them is very foolish.
Or at least you seriously consider such a proposal - and I'm not comfortable calling it a proposal it's a bad idea on its face - and then you have your answer. As you see at Instapundit.
BTW, if you want more evidence consider what happens at the shrine for George Floyd. During the day it's reportedly very peaceful, however, at sunset you probably don't want to see the crime take place. It's a police no-go zone at night.
BTW, since we're talking about George Floyd, Gateway Pundit shows more from his arrest. Floyd reportedly dropped a small white baggie of narcotics and officers who held him found a crack pipe in his pocket. They further state: "A crack pipe was found on his person and he died while under arrest and the Medical Examiner said he had a fatal level of fentanyl in his system at death."
And again it causes me to wonder what this unrest is for. The question remains were the police officers who held him on Memorial Day 2020 responsible for Floyd's death? I hope a fair jury looks at this and considers this case accordingly.
Oh yeah, I just got to add this post from Powerline referring to the Minneapolis city gov't as this nations most pathetic gov't.
