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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1237830)	6/9/2020 8:31:51 AM
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Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest By Paul Walsh Star Tribune June 8, 2020 — 6:12pm Two law enforcement agencies acknowledged Monday that officers patrolling Minneapolis during the height of recent protests knifed the tires of numerous vehicles parked and unoccupied in at least two locations in the midst of the unrest. Video and photo images posted on the news outlet Mother Jones show officers in military-style uniforms puncturing tires in the Kmart parking lot at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue on May 30. Images from S. Washington Avenue at Interstate 35W also showed officers with knives deflating the tires of two unoccupied cars with repeated jabs on May 31. Department of Public Safety spokesman Bruce Gordon confirmed that tires were cut in "a few locations." "State Patrol troopers strategically deflated tires … in order to stop behaviors such as vehicles driving dangerously and at high speeds in and around protesters and law enforcement," Gordon said. Gordon said the patrol also targeted vehicles "that contained items used to cause harm during violent protests" such as rocks, concrete and sticks. "While not a typical tactic, vehicles were being used as dangerous weapons and inhibited our ability to clear areas and keep areas safe where violent protests were occurring," he said. As in all operations of this size, there will be a review about how these decisions were made." Deputies from Anoka County followed state orders and joined the patrol and also cut the tires on vehicles on Washington Avenue, said Anoka County Sheriff's Lt. Andy Knotz. Knotz said the deputies got their directions from the state-led Multiagency Command Center [MACC], which was coordinating law enforcement during the protests connected to the death on May 25 of George Floyd. Towing the vehicles was not an option, Knotz said, because "you could not get any tow trucks in there" because of the mass of people in the area. Val Ebertz, who was at the protests, witnessed police slashing tires in the Kmart parking lot at Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in the midst of protests on May 30. She added these were the same officers who "were tear-gassing and shooting us with rubber bullets to try to push us farther back into the Kmart parking lot." Kyla Cook was with Ebertz and said "all of us were in shock" when she and others in the Kmart lot saw one member from a line of officers in riot gear knife the tires of an unattended pickup truck. Among the vehicle owners whose tires were damaged was Star Tribune reporter Chris Serres, who was covering the protests the night of May 30 and returned to the Kmart lot about 1 a.m. to find that his car was among a few dozen with flattened tires. "As far as I could see, it looked like all their tires had been slashed," Serres said. Los Angeles documentary and television producer Andrew Kimmel said his tires were similarly slashed while parked in the Kmart lot. His video of the damage on Twitter has been viewed more than 1.25 million times as of Monday afternoon. "It was every single car that was in the parking lot," said Kimmel, who has covered more than 100 protests in the past several years and added, "I've never seen the tire slashing before, particularly in a parking lot." Spokesmen for the Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the National Guard said their personnel were not the ones shown damaging tires in the videos and photos that are making the rounds on social media. startribune.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1237830)	6/9/2020 8:43:18 AM
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How about kneeling for all mankind, and standing for God? - Wharf Rat I don't worship mankind. I worship God. Catholics kneel for God to show we serve him. Look, I think we've all reached "peak virtual signaling". Kneeling accomplishes nothing, but make black people feel like they have forced white people into a ritual act of humiliation. That's a form of revenge and it will not bring the races closer together. All of us have had it with all the politically correct claptrap that is designed only to make narcissistic people feel good about themselves, but does nothing to make this country better, nor lift up poor communities. Obama had something to say about that. "I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that's enough. Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right, or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because: 'Man, did you see how woke I was? I called you out. That is not activism. That is not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far." - Obama This picture below says it all. Liberals are only interested in empty gestures. Little black squares on their Instagram accounts...as if that did anything but make the poster a self-involved infant. Liberal Congress people wearing African garb as if that made them woke. It's all self-serving bullshit and the black community understands that Democrats want another kind of obeisance and slavery from them. They'd rather have the dignity of a job and self-reliance. Pandering to them about defunding the police is just another empty gesture that is designed to make black communities less safe and destroy any chance those black kids have at a stable life to rise up out of poverty. We need real solutions based on facts and data, not on slogans, pandering, and virtue signals like kneeling and black squares. Liberals need to grow up and deal with the world as it is, not the utopian fantasy that they wished it was.