“Please Please Please Please Please Send Cameras Please Please Please”

So there’s kind of a theme coming out of “Black Lives Matter” here in the Twin Cities.

Last week, Rashad Taylor, one of the organizers of Saturday’s protest that’ll be starting a few blocks from my house and proceeding up Snelling – the busiest street in the state during Fair time – to the State Fairgrounds, hinted that there juuuust might be some violence at the protest:

“We’re gonna disrupt [the fair]. There’s nothing they’re gonna be able to do about it…. If we’re met with any resistance or threatened with any resistance, we’ll meet them with that same resistance.”

Huh.

And on Facebook, Nekima Levy-Pounds – the leader of Black Lives Matter in the Twin Cities, and a woman with a PhD and a lifetime tenure-track job in a make-work academic discipline, who nonetheless complains about “white privilege” – posted:

Friends, Please pray for those brave and courageous souls who will be participating in the ‪#‎BlackFair‬ demonstration outside of the State Fair on Saturday. The level of racial hatred and animus that has come to the surface in Minnesota is appalling. These racist attitudes are typically hidden behind a Minnesota Nice facade. Now, we are able to see the truth of how these folks really feel about blacks and other people of color.

Some have taken these statements as a threat of violence.

Call me a pollyanna if you want; maybe, more accurately, you can accuse me of transposing my own motives on those of others. I read these statements, and I see a couple of people saying “Heeeeey, news media! Make sure you got plenty of cameras lined up on Snelling this Saturday. You wouldn’t wanna miss another…Ferguson or Baltimore, would you?”

Am I wrong?

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August 27, 2015

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Mitch Berg

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16 responses to ““Please Please Please Please Please Send Cameras Please Please Please””

The Big Stink

August 27, 2015

“Minnesota Nice” is not based in racism. It’s based in a belief that truth – whatever manifestation it may take – is merely an opposing point of view.
Scott Hughes

August 27, 2015

This:
According to 18 USCS § 2102 “to incite a riot”, or “to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot”, includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.”

I like this part:
(a) Criminal Penalties.— A person that violates section 2102 of this title to exchange information covered by section 2102 of this title for anything of value or to obtain or give a person a competitive advantage in the award of a Federal agency procurement contract shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Civil Penalties.— The Attorney General may bring a civil action in an appropriate district court of the United States against a person that engages in conduct that violates section 2102, 2103, or 2104 of this title. On proof of that conduct by a preponderance of the evidence—
(1) an individual is liable to the Federal Government for a civil penalty of not more than $50,000 for each violation plus twice the amount of compensation that the individual received or offered for the prohibited conduct; and
(2) an organization is liable to the Federal Government for a civil penalty of not more than $500,000 for each violation plus twice the amount of compensation that the organization received or offered for the prohibited conduct.
Scott Hughes

August 27, 2015

Oops, I think I got the wrong penalty citation.
Scott Hughes

August 27, 2015

I think this is right for MN:
609.71 RIOT.
Subdivision 1.Riot first degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property and a death results, and one of the persons is armed with a dangerous weapon, that person is guilty of riot first degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $35,000, or both.
§ Subd. 2.Riot second degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant who is armed with a dangerous weapon or knows that any other participant is armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of riot second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
Subd. 3.Riot third degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant therein is guilty of riot third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than one year or to payment of a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
Chuck

August 27, 2015

“I am going to beat you up”
“F.U. I’ll defend myself”
“So you are a racist you wants to attack me”

Funny thing is, if you look at the photos of past events, the BLM looks more like the White Citizens Council circa 1954. But less well behaved. I wonder why rich white liberals from St Thomas and Macalester don’t go to North Mpls. Hmmmm.
Chuck

August 27, 2015

As you guys/gals know, the thugs will all be filming nonstop. They want to get that one 10 second moment that they can edit and cry “police brutality”, then get left wing lawyers and keep it in the courts for months.
Mr. D

August 27, 2015

Take the shuttle buses in to the fairgrounds — they dump you off on the west side of the fairgrounds, away from all the protests. No worries at all.
walter hanson

August 27, 2015

Don’t black life matters care that lots of blacks will want to go to the fair for fun and their protests will ruin their days. Not to mention a lot of black people have jobs at the fair and this might reduce their income?

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Prince of Darkness_666

August 27, 2015

This… could get ugly
thorleywinston

August 27, 2015

Don’t black life matters care that lots of blacks will want to go to the fair for fun and their protests will ruin their days. Not to mention a lot of black people have jobs at the fair and this might reduce their income?

No, they don’t.
jimf

August 27, 2015

“The level of racial hatred and animus that has come to the surface in Minneapolis is appalling.” She says without a hint of proof….
kel

August 27, 2015

this would be a great time for the SPPD to deploy those body cams – capture some of the BLM agitators actually violating the above statutes and maybe even bring a civil suit against the city for failure to enforce/endangering citizens.
J. Ewing

August 27, 2015

Betcha those folks don’t have parade permits, and can be arrested en masse for obstructing traffic. Block the street and tell them to disperse or be arrested, then follow through. Lawlessness should not be tolerated and these artificial “grievances” are no excuse whatsoever. Fence them in somewhere and release them, two at a time, over the next several days.
Prussian Blue

August 27, 2015

J. Ewing, Arresting people for doing illegal things is hate.
I think that we should all be clear on that by now.
Scott Hughes

August 28, 2015

What BLM really wants IS a confrontation. Sadly it’s as likely as not they’ll achieve that goal.
justplainangry

August 30, 2015

So? What happened?