None of the Twin Cities major media covered this story: carjackers attack woman in Northeast Minneapolis.
The surveillance video caught the episode, outside Tony Jaros’s River Garden:
That man then threw her to the ground in the parking lot, cocked the gun, beat Marlo, and pistol-whipped her across the head. Marlo said it appeared the gun jammed. His accomplice then walked over. It’s when Marlo says the bar’s cook just happened to be outside on a smoke break when he heard the commotion and came to her rescue.
They all tussled on the ground before one of the masked men knocked her keys away and attempted to get into the car. Marlo again got up to stop them from driving off. A group of men from the bar also joined the fight and another man pulled up in a pickup truck to help.
The men all dragged the driver out of the car and onto the ground. The two thieves eventually ran off.
I can not be the only one wishing the locals would have kept stomping when they got the punks on the ground.
It’s gonna happen someday, if the Hennepin County Attorney and the Minneapolis City Council don’t start taking this seriously.
Very true, Mitch. Like, I believe, Instapundit quipped some years ago, the police don’t protect normies from the criminals, they protect the criminals from the normies (Uvalde?). Especially when enough people understand those Supreme Court rulings that the police are under no obligation to protect citizens.
I don’t like to wish ill will on anyone, but I wish these thugs would car jack more DemoCommie city clowncil and legislature members. After all, it’s only fair that the people that create the problems are victims of their ignorant policies. It would be fun to see dumb ass Ryan Winkler getting bitch slapped.
If the woman had been armed & shot and killed her attackers there would have been riots for days.
Whatever Minneapolis’ leadership is doing it is making things worse, not better.
Tony Jaros’s River Garden? Hey, that’s right next to the longest bridge in the world!
Speaking about the Minneapolis’ leadership, didn’t the MN Supreme Court (of all places) indicate that they screwed up in the St George of Floyd riots? Like a really serious, hands-on-hips, stern look ruling? Anything gonna come from that?
The failure to maintain law and order in Minneapolis is a multifaceted problem, and all of the facets have “DFL” written on them.
You have a smaller than required police force because the city council hates the police.
Because the city council and the state AG hate the police, the police are not especially zealous in performing their duties.
You have a woke county attorney and woke judges who believe that their priority is not maintaining law and order, it is keeping black men and boys out of jail.
It is obvious that a lot of this crime is gang related, but no one will admit that in Minneapolis, if the police do not own the streets, the gangs will own the streets.
Minneapolis is a democracy. Its citizens voted for this crap.
I’d like to buy those citizens that helped out a Greeny or a Pinky.
Former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew was mugged at the Mall of America for his iPhone in 2013. Two women were arrested for clawing him and hitting him with a collapsible baton (which folks routinely carry, you know), and threatening to kill him.
https://www.twincities.com/2013/12/26/minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-mugged-for-iphone-at-mall-of-america-charges-say/
Of course, there’s a happy ending. As KARE reported about a year later:
MINNEAPOLIS – A teenager who severely beat former Hennepin County board chairman Mark Andrew at the Mall of America last year won’t go to jail for her crime – and he’s glad she won’t.
Eighteen-year-old Deea LeShawn Elliot pleaded guilty to first-degree assault for attacking Andrew with a metal baton last December after her accomplice stole his cell phone. A judge on Tuesday sentenced her to 14 weeks of intensive counseling and a year-long immersion in an arts program of her choice. She won’t go to jail if she meets those conditions.
Andrew tells Minnesota Public Radio he strongly believes in redemption, and the way to turn her life around is not to send her to prison.
“I believe in human kind and I believe in restorative justice,” Andrew told MPR. “And I don’t think harsh prison terms for three youngsters – one a legal adult and the other two juveniles. I didn’t see the value in incarcerating any of these three for a long period of time.”
Andrew met face-to-face with Elliot in court Tuesday. She repeatedly said she was sorry.
“She came over to me and apologized, and I hugged her, and she just broke down in my arms,” Andrew said. “To me, it was a beautiful moment, because I could see how badly she felt. It was very, very healing.”
See, nw, all you need to say is “i’m sorry” and all sins are forgiven… theft, assault, mayhem, murder, rape, etc, etc, etc… but only if you are a libturd. A jaywalker with a MAGA hat will be sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labour in the uranium mines with no chance of parole. Because AmeriKKKa!
jpa – the photo of us at the Ronald Reagan statue in Budapest floated up in my FB memories the other day. Good times!
I understand Minneapolis is a representative democracy and the voters elected the politicians who embrace the policies that have lead to record-breaking violence, murders and urban decay. I have no problem with the laboratory of democracy: let Minneapolis experiment with government to find their own best solutions.
But I do have a problem with paying for it. The state collects property taxes and redistributes them to cities according to some arcane formula of need. Some cities get no LGA at all; those citizens’ property taxes subsidize other cities. Here’s the list:
https://www.revenue.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/2021-07/2022%20LGA%20Amounts.pdf
Minneapolis got $78 million this year. Cottage Grove and Woodbury got zero. I’m paying for the Minneapolis experiments even though I never go there. Strikes me as unfair. I’m paying for it, I should get to vote on who spends it.
No taxation without representation, dammit! I’m going to throw some bags of tea off the Stone Arch Bridge to protest. At least, I will if I can find a permitted carry holder to cover my back. I’m not some wild-eyed base jumper or whitewater rafter who enjoys taking life threatening risks just for the hell of it.
JD, you don’t have to pay for it… move!
JPA – not old enough for Medicare to take over my insurance, so I’m working for a few more years until YOU can take over paying for my medical care. Thanks, much appreciated. I’ll send you a postcard from Florida after I retire.
After all, you’re not the first guy to point out that Minnesota doesn’t need any B+ White men, former Governor Dayton invited me to leave in 2015. I’m going as fast as I can.
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Joe,
To your last point, the richest man in the city of Chicago, a guy who also is a philanthropist, announced yesterday that he was moving his company to the free state of Florida. His reason was focused on the rampant crime, which has affected a few of his colleagues.
Re: Mark Andrew’s mugging.
I think that he is confused. “Restorative justice” is not justice. That’s why it is not simply called “justice.” Justice is when a person gets what that person deserves. The state brought the case against Deea LeShawn Elliot because beating someone with a metal rod is a serious crime. She hit him in the head with the baton several times. She could have killed or crippled him.
According to the criminal complaint, a young man grabbed Andrew’s iPhone from him in a Starbucks at the MOA. Andrew chased after the suspect, but was stopped by Elliot and 18-year-old Letajia Cutler Cain, who blocked the shop’s door.
Elliot hit Andrew on the head several times with a metal baton, while Cutler Cain jumped on his back and scratched his face.
Clearly, if he was interested in restorative justice, Andrews should have let the young man run off with his phone.
Paging Inspector Callahan….you’re needed in Minneapolis.