Saint Anthony Park is Saint Paul’s neighborhood for “old money” without all the ostentation of Summit Avenue or Crocus Hill.
Its leafy streets and gently-cared-for Victorians full of university profs and senior administrative types and other moderately successful architecture geeks is the kind of place that makes city life look good.
It’s also a neighborhood full of people who haven’t been robbed, burgled and gone over enough to get hypervigilant just yet.
Fearless prediction: if they find a perp, he’ll be out of jail on his own recognizance for several felonies, and was moving up-market by going to SAP.
Condolences to Mr. Brasel’s family.
In the social and career circles the judges and county attorneys of the metro move in, “catch and release” is a positive good. They KNOW that what they are doing is turning felons loose until they either get themselves killed or kill someone else. They simply do not care. They do not see their goal as being safe neighborhoods, their goal is to combat structural inequality. And the voters signal that this is what they want them to do.
MP,
That might change if a few of them are victims of the same thugs they released.
boss, how can they become victims if they have armed guards around them? You know, they are the elites, the protected (literally) class of citizenry.
7:30 on a Saturday morning in a “nice” residential area. A car burglary. Go out in your jammies and confront the burglar. Who could be and then is found to be armed?
I dunno, maybe it’s me, but i think that sounds fishy. Like something is missing in the narrative.
*Looks* like he confronted a burglar…details are squishy”
Translation: “Yes, it’s another black, but I don’t get paid to report that kind of detail.”
Don’t expect crooks to be smart or rational.
If history means anything, the killer will soon be caught. He will admit built and be given a plea bargain of a few years in prison. Did the real killer confess? Don’t know, never will. Someone might be paid to confess or extorted into confessing.
Once the threat of “sure and certain punishment” for crime goes away, all kinds of crazy shit happens.
Let’s say Mr Brasel confronted the thief and he was armed. Could he have shot the man and pleaded self defense? No! Minnesota has a duty to retreat self defense law unless you are inside your home. So, confronting a thief is la losing proposition. You either get shot or go to prison for protecting yourself.
^ Agreed.
Also nothing about calling the cops either until after he was shot (shot three times, in fact… brutal).
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I didn’t know the victim, but I understand that his kids attend my parish school. Just awful.