To Protect And Serve…The Special Interests That His Bosses Kowtow To
By Mitch Berg
Not that you’d know if have a life, but Minnesota’s little coterie of gun-grabber groups had a “March” yesterday.
Of course, they didn’t march where the actual violence was. They “marched” about the tony, safe fields of Boom Island, nestled into the upscale neighborhood across the river from Downtown Minneapolis; close to the killing fields of North Minneapolis as the crow flies, but still a million miles away.
The ELCA Hair was safely covered with hand-knit artisanal wool caps. The orange Dreamsicle t-shirts were covered by more North Face on the “Marchers” than on the actual north face of any mountain in the area.
There was much misplaced bravado, at least on social media (“SEE YOU AT THE CAPITOL” indeed – but not for long, since not a single one of your bills will make it to the floor of the GOP controlled legislature, absent some hue and cry to do so – and the last election pretty well refudiated the notion that there is any such hue and cry).
But there was one other “Marcher” that drew this blog’s interest:
It’s a Minneapolis police lieutenant (I won’t name him), wearing a Dreamsicle cap.
Leftenant: you’re wearing a cap from a group that wants to deny a God-given liberty to law-abiding American citizens, along with your uniform and badge.
Does this give us some idea of the treatment law-abiding gun owners can expect in your area of responsibility?
I can’t imagine that this is legal, even under Janae Harteau’s special-interest-friendly set of policies.
If you’re a law-abiding citizen in Minneapolis who exercises your Second Amendment rights, be careful.
But you knew that.
December 12th, 2016 at 11:30 am
Now, now Mitch. It’s not like Officer Friendly is part of a crew that has a permanent fund in place to pay off anyone that happens to survive a beat-down, a home invasion gone terribly wrong, or has lost more members to felony convictions than the Kluxers.
Well, OK, maybe he is. But we can be sure he’s only looking out for the best interests of the people of Minneapolis.
The ELCA Hair was safely covered with hand-knit artisanal wool caps.
Excellent.
December 12th, 2016 at 1:06 pm
I can haz spelings problemz.
December 12th, 2016 at 2:24 pm
It’s tough to tell given the potato quality of that picture, but I wonder if he was still wearing his sidearm while participating in the festivities.
If he was, at least there would be a first responder (him) within seconds of response time to any orc who might have been triggered into the vapors or heaven forfend, unconsciousness, at the mere sight of such a deadly death-dealing death machine of death-inducing death.
December 12th, 2016 at 2:25 pm
Lt. No Name’s got a case of the dun-lop disease.
December 12th, 2016 at 3:01 pm
File a complaint, no? This is a basic breach of ethics, isn’t it?
DMA; I believe that’s equivalent to about 10 years on the force in Chicago.
December 12th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Orange smorange. To him it’s an orange hat that his wife picked up at Target to keep his head warm and keep him from getting hit by a car doing traffic duty.
December 12th, 2016 at 6:57 pm
DMA,
I observed the same thing. If there was an incident where he had to chase down the perp, he probably couldn’t do it.
December 13th, 2016 at 5:34 am
why isn’t he wearing his camera?
December 13th, 2016 at 7:24 am
Carmelita,
Those caps aren’t for sale. You can’t buy ’em. They make damn sure you’re “one of them” before they let you have/buy one. Ask me how I know.
And Lieutenants don’t do traffic duty…
December 15th, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Smash together refute and repute and what does Berg get? Refudiated. GW Bush is beaming. But you knew that.
A couple helpful examples of both in past tense, but remember, just pick one.
“His fixation refuted the notion he had a life to begin with” -or- “Berg repudiated the attack on his God-given liberty. God could not be reached for comment.”
December 16th, 2016 at 9:38 am
Well, if it ain’t Joe himself. That didn’t take long, did it?
Smash together refute and repute and what does Berg get? Refudiated. GW Bush is beaming. But you knew that.
Well, yeah, I did. Something of an inside joke among conservatives. Refudiate, Edumacation, and on and on. It’s called self-deprecating humor. The American Left doesn’t do self-deprecation.
A couple helpful examples of both in past tense, but remember, just pick one.
“His fixation refuted the notion he had a life to begin with”
Oh, goody. An ad-hominem. Never had that before.
But by your indulgent leave, I’ll take a pass on the rest of your comment, and ask a simple question: do you think it’s appropriate for an MPD senior officer to openly advocate for a political special interest?
Why or why not?
December 16th, 2016 at 10:47 am
Hillarious! I forgot you do stand up while squatting.
Rich Staneck openly advocates for political special interest groups. But you knew that.
December 16th, 2016 at 11:58 am
I forgot you do stand up while squatting.
Wow. You are truly a superior comedic performer. Slow clap for you, little camper!
Rich Staneck [sic] openly advocates for…
Stanek is an elected official. If you don’t like the special interests Stanek you elect someone else. (Or you try. How’s that going for you?)
MPD lieutenants are not politicians. They are senior civil servants with all sorts of extra authority over people. If you saw one of them walking with a bunch of Klansmen wearing a white hood, that’d have implications, right?
Whoops – given gun control’s deep roots in white supremacy, that was probably an insensitive example.
But let’s focus, shall we? Do you think it’s appropriate for a civil servant, as opposed to an elected official, to be playing politics on taxpayer time?
Do try to answer the actual question, if that’s not asking too much. TYVM.
December 16th, 2016 at 7:14 pm
Emotionally crippled Angry Joe is merely a leaking bowel of self loathing. He has no capacity to honestly answer questions let alone provide actual arguments.