Just Another Night In Uptown

The Uptown McDonalds.

In the eighties and early nineties, if was a great place to go to watch dissociatives dissociating.

For most of the past 20 years? On a Saturday night, it’s the place to go if you wanted to watch college girls in cocktall dresses throwing up on the sidewalk on 30 degree nights.

Today? It’s a great place to go to feel like you’re in Beirut in the ’80s.

Rebecca Brannon – one of very few actual journalists working these days – was there around bar closing on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

This is what she recorded:

But the 20 second video doesn’t show the half of it. I talked with Brannon on the show over the weekend. What got her attention was…

…guys, including the guy with the long-ish gun (looks like a Hi-Point carbine to mme) standing around in the parking lot, openly displaying their guns.

Brannon started taping when the guy with the long-ish gun fired a shot in the air. He shot into the air again when he drove off in the stolen car.

A civil society can not sustain this sort of thing. If the authorities don’t stop it, either the economic crash that follows the collapse of order will, or the people themselves will. Hard to tell which is worse.

cc: Shiny Happies.

37 thoughts on “Just Another Night In Uptown

  1. You’re wrong Mitch. A real journalist interviews Alec Baldwin so he can explain how it was that the pistol just kind of fired itself after Halyna instructed him to aim it at her.

  2. Something wrong with the video. Makes the perps look like Black men from Chicago which, of course, would be a vicious racist lie. Everyone knows all crime in the Twin Cities is committed by White Supremacists from Vancouver.

    Also, the one farther down where a bus driver gets beat up. Same video problem.

  3. And just 12 blocks north of these shenanigans, at the northern edge of Kenwood,
    the residents are being introduced to the new and improved features of Big City Living.

    From a friend who lives in the Kenwood neighborhood of Mpls: In the past year, I have counted at least 11 carjackings, 3 home invasions, and 7 armed robberies/muggings — all within 8 blocks of our house. One of those robberies was of our elderly neighbor directly behind us. 1/5

    A group of kids followed her home and, as she pulled into her garage, they rushed her, pulled her out of her car, roughed her up, took her purse, and tried to steal her car. 2/5

    In addition, a few months back a couple of thugs entered the antique shop on the corner of Hennepin and Douglas (right around the corner) and beat the hell out of the elderly proprietor before robbing him. 3/5

    Just a couple of months ago, a monster entered the Storchak Dry Cleaners at 705 Douglas (again, right around the corner) and viciously beat the 60-year-old lady who worked there before stealing her car. 4/5

    She didn’t resist, but that didn’t stop the guy from fracturing several of her ribs and giving her a concussion. She has been so traumatized that she refuses to leave her home for anything other than necessary doctors’ appointments. But, yeah… let’s defund the police. 5/5

  4. This was clearly the work of Umbrella Man. It couldn’t be more obvious.

  5. jdm.
    I’ve heard similar stories, less the assaults, from friends that live in Linden Hills. One of them told me that his wife was followed home by two utes. Same MO; she drove into the garage and observed said utes getting out of the car. His wife is a CC permit holder and had her Glock 17 on her. She jumped out the car, pointed it and asked the utes if she could help them. They starting backpedaling, uttered a couple of expletives, then jumped in their (likely stolen) car and took off. She got the license number and called the cops. They didn’t send a car, just took the info. Let’s go Brandon!

  6. For all those citizens from Kenwood and other neighborhoods of Mpls, consider voting for different types of people.

  7. Oh Mitch, you look on the dark side of everything.

    Chipper up, Smile,

    THINK HOW DIVERSE THE CITY IS!!!

  8. For what could be more beautiful than a perfectly diverse city rejoicing in diversity alone?

  9. The one with the carbine was so fucked up, he could barely stand. He’s a bigger threat behind the wheel than he is behind the trigger.

  10. What Swiftee says about the perp there. Safest place to be in that area is right where that guy thinks he’s pointing the gun-sights. Most dangerous place to be is wherever he was going to drive.

    And yes, it’s a bad sign of the times when the police can’t even respond to a shots fired incident. Ouch.

  11. I used to follow a blog by a Brazilian fellow, documenting the societal breakdown in his country back in the first decade of this century. The name of the blog escapes my memory at the moment, but it was essentially survival tips, with special attention paid to being at your most alert when approaching or leaving your dwelling, as these were prime ambush locations. Oh, and never stop at a red light in the cities. He eventually emigrated to Ireland.

    In ’06 I was in a group at a conference with a man who had been an exec with Rolm in Rio de Janeiro for three years. He said they took helicopters between skyscrapers for business meetings there, never going down to the street level. His daughter was driven to her school compound (fenced and guarded like a military installation) every day in an armored Mercedes, with an armed chauffeur.

    Rule of law vs. the law of the jungle.

  12. boss, that was a heartwarming story. Thanks.

    I often use the little Google driver guy to look at the neighborhoods where “people do things” and I did for that Kenwood tweet thread as well. A few blocks south of that antique store/dry cleaners corner, just before Franklin on Hennepin there’s this (I don’t know if you have to spin the image around to see residence at 1916):

    https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9637204,-93.2906819,3a,75y,262.35h,97.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLyrgiosuZaamGydngsCo-Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

    August, 2021.

  13. boss, your friend calling police was a huge mistake. She will be charged with brandishing in three… two… one…

  14. jdm.
    Know the area well. Coincidentally, my father in law owned that dry cleaning shop until 1988.

  15. I suppose there are reasons for wanting to live in the Cities, but for the life of me, I can’t think of a valid one.

    Waiting to be called “raesis” in 3 … 2 … 1

  16. I suppose there are reasons for wanting to live in the Cities

    There are.

      ,

    • It’s where my kids are.
    • It’s where my mom is.
    • It’s where my friends are,
    • It’s where my career is. It’s one of the best markets in the country for what I do for a living – and even with all the hullaballoo over remote work, it still pays to be where the clients are.
    • The advantages still outweigh the diadvantages – for now.

    But above and beyond them all?

    I reserve the right, one day, to walk away. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna run.

  17. Boys, I don’t water my lawn unarmed. I live in a state with Americans in charge, which is helpful, but I don’t take chances on the front end, or the back.

    If y’all have not heard of the USCCA, you have now. I don’t worry too much about the consequences of being forced to use my pistol, because I live in America. But I’ll tell ya, the USCCA takes the fear of financial disaster off the table (as long as you have followed the law).

    https://www.usconcealedcarry.com

    The Platinum membership ($50/mo) gives a fella $2,000,000 annual liability insurance limit and no limit defense expenses…you read that right. They have a network of defense lawyers all over the country (I called one in my area just to make contact and identify myself; he’s a good lad. Said “call me when you need me”).

    They also have a 24 hour critical response team to help you right the fuck away after a self-defense incident. Also, and this is important, they have excellent training available all over the country. The wife and I have been through 2 and improved our skills 200%. I’ve got the advanced class scheduled for next year.

    Y’all might think $50/mo is a lot, and it is, but just one incident will pay for a lifetime of dues.

    When you sign up, tell ’em Bill Peterson’s chin twat sent ya, and I get goodies!

  18. I reserve the right, one day, to walk away. But I’ll be damned if I’m gonna run.

    I hear you…but what’s the upside to living in a landfill, crawling with rats and insect vermin? The Twin cities are lost. Nothing good is coming down the pipe towards you.

  19. Regarding NW’s description of Brazil, a good friend of mine was an ex-pat in Rio, I believe, for a few years, and they had more or less the same experience. Armored cars with drivers for them and their kids, etc..

    Part of me wonders if this kind of silliness would stop if we simply insisted that those who want to cut the police actually visit a country where that’s been done to a significant extent, and start appreciating the good that we’ve got here in the U.S.

  20. All of Rio’s problems are caused by Umbrella Man spreading white supremacy.
    Prove me wrong! Can’t do it, can you?

  21. Part of me wonders if this kind of silliness…

    bike, a part of you really, truly thinks that a trip to will cause Lisa Bender, Ellison or The Younger, Ilhan, et al to rethink their policy proposals? That simple ignorance is a core part of their malicious? You really can’t see the contempt those people have for normies?

  22. MP, I have it on good authority that Umbrella man speaks several languages..including Portuguese.

    It was him, all right.

  23. You really can’t see the contempt those people have for normies?

    So, you’ve joined the dissident Right?

  24. jdm: we might say it in the words of, I believe, Mr. Buckley–“a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.” Now I do not wish actual harm on progressives, but I do have the hope–as you note perhaps too optimistic–that confronted with a country where their hosts take extreme measures to try to keep them safe, they might clue in.

    You will definitely have your share of Bernie Sanders types who can actually wait in a Soviet bread line without figuring out that something is horribly wrong if the world’s #2 breadbasket cannot put bread in stores, but I still have the hope that a portion would figure something out.

  25. bike, according to AOC, muggings and burglaries and carjackings are all alt-right conspiracy theories and never happened, dontchaknow?

  26. Like I said, “Bernie Sanders Types” aren’t going to be persuaded. Well, not without being mugged themselves….

  27. You might all be interested to know that New Yorkers are being advised to “dress down” to reduce the chances of being mugged. Can’t wait until man baby, mom jeans Frey issues that edict.

    Oh, and Arredondo is retiring in January. Now, both of our major cities will be looking for new, most likely woke, police leadership.

  28. I dunno, bike, as far I’m concerned, this quote has it right, We spend a lot of time talking about how we can convince Woke activists to stop ruining everything when woke activists should be spending their time begging us not to put them in prison.

  29. While you, as a normal person, see increased violent crime as proof that liberal governance is bad, liberals see increased violent crime as the inevitable result of the weakening of white supremacism.
    They will not admit that rising property and violent crime is a problem that requires a law enforcement solution. You are still on square one.

  30. The Civil Rights trials of the George Floyd cops has been moved to St. Paul, to the federal court house on Robert St. It’s smaller than the Minneapolis court house, doesn’t have much room in front of the property, meaning peaceful protesters will be in the street, in the neighboring skyways, and – well, looky-here – just a short march away from the State Capitol building.

    I’m sure there are those who see this as a feature, not a bug.

  31. But.., but.., but.., but……, WHAT ABOUT JANUARY 6!!!!!??

    Seriously, all the murder, rape, car-jacking, smash & grab robberies make no more difference to the progressive left than a missed end of the world prediction makes to a UFO cult.

  32. OK, a different way of seeing this; rising crime in Democrat-run cities functions as Darwin Awards for those foolish enough to live there.

  33. I moved out of both Minneapolis and St. Paul, and don’t go there any more than I absolutely have to. But Sunday night two people were shot (not by cops) at a gas station one mile from my house. As police were investigating, a mob of bystanders confronted them, with some in the group even trying to drive away one of the victims’ vehicles. Back-up from each of the surrounding ‘burbs was called in for crowd control. I know that neighborhood around the gas station well, and it’s not a place where you’re going to find a lot of foot traffic just hanging around to be “bystanders”, and Sunday night wasn’t an especially pleasant time to be out taking the air. I’m going to assume that the group was already present at the time of the shootings, and I’m wondering if this location is becoming a new “murder station” like some in St. Paul.

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