Tag: George Floyd
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Breaking
“George Floyd Square“ in south Minneapolis is being cleared. By… …well, somebody: But it’s been kind of interesting; reporters on channel 11 and channel 9 are both saying that, while city workers are doing the work, the city is not involved. According to CBSN Minnesota, city workers began clearing concrete barriers from the area in…
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I’m Told…
…that Reverend King… …flew coach.
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This Is A Sincere Question…
…for any DFLers that happen to be reading. Yesterday, on the one hand, DFL rep Jennifer McEwen, sounding as if she were nearly in tearms, chided her GOP colleagues for attacking Maxine Waters, who spent her weekend telling Demcorats to riot if they didn’t get the verdict they wanted in the Chauvin trial… Right after…
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Happy New Year!
Let’s get everyone’s predictions for the new year on record. I’ll start: After nine months of whinging “2020 is the worst year ever“, Americans will discover that events don’t read calendars. Things’ll stop sucking pretty much whenever they stop sucking. Joe Biden will come out of the White House basement no more often after being…
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Just In Case
Apparently, the Menards in the Midway was worried about rioting Trump supporters. They stacked up huge pallets of lumber in front of the doors – just like they did during the George Floyd riots / May. Apparently, those Trump supporters I’m going to riot. Any day now. Just like those waves of “white supremacist terror“…
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The Inmates
Don’t let the title – or the fact that it’s in the generally unforgiveable Slate, for that matter – put you off from reading this piece, “The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd “. This piece captures not only the history of CUP Foods, the South Minneapolis bodega whose employee called 911 on…
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Toward A More Awesome Union
The first requirement of an orderly society is order which must be imposed by an impartial judiciary. That cannot happen when the judicial system is afraid of violence. *** Old: From: Chief JudgeTo: All Employees You may have read or heard that the Court House was locked down today for about 15 min. After a…
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Shot In The Dark: Today’s News, Months Ago
Someone in the press leaked the body cam video of the George Floyd arrest. Taking nothing away from the tragedy or the anger that went along with it – “knee on the throat” isn’t a good look – but seeing this, I’m thinking Keith Ellison would need Vasily Ulrikh on the bench to get a…
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Rounds Two And…Three?
Like a lot of Twin Cities residents, I’m eyeing next spring – sometime after the scheduled March opening of the Derek Chauvin trial – nervously, remembering that the LA riots (at least the ones everyone remembers) began not with the pummeling of Rodney King, but with the acquittal of the four officers involved. And here’s…
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Dear DFL: You Own This Town
The feds turn down Governor Klink’s disaster funding request: The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his…
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MiniHealth Has Never Been At War With MiniPol
Some Henco Commisioners want to declare racism a public health crisis: Hennepin County Commissioners Angela Conley and Irene Fernando plan to introduce a resolution on Tuesday declaring racism a public health emergency in the county. “We need to be explicit about racism,” Conley said. “We need to say that at the root of the disparities…
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Cultural Appropriation For Ye, But Not For We
This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral: They’re wearing “Kente” cloths – apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa. They have cultural significance. And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes. Some actual Africans were…
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If You’re Not A Cynic, You’re Not Paying Attention
In the wake of – or perhaps as a next chapter of the George Floyd riots, “Anti”-Fa are setting up an “Autonomous” enclave in Seattle. They are extorting businesses in that enclave for protection money. And unlike Minneapolis, where President Trump steamrollered Governor Walz into sending a more-than-token National Guard force with threats of invoking…
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Some Memorials Are More Equal Than Others
My brother died one month ago today. No funeral – they were illegal. Covid. It was SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed: we could have a 10-people funeral. That wasn’t enough for both our side and the widow’s side of the family to attend. No funeral. SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed again: we could…
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Probably An Academic Question
Watching Mayor Trudeau crying with all the convincing grace of a rented mourner over the casket of George Floyd, at the not-remotely-socially-distanced funeral (violating the Mayor’s own directives, after a week during which he abandoned a fifth of the city to looters, reigned over press conferences that looked like outtakes from “Reno 911”, got caught…
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I’m No Lawyer…
…and I’ll leave plenty of room for those of you who are. But as re Keith Ellison taking over the prosecution of the officers involved in the George Floyd case, I can’t help but think the following: Hot Potato: Mike Freeman just got the most controversial case in his misbegotten career off his plate. He…
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Off Boat Pushed
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s dad was a cop. I wonder what he thinks, seeing what his son has let the city come to.Businesses at the intersection of Como, Front, and Dale Street, a mile or so from Mitch’s house. Sign says: “RIP George Floyd, BLM, minority-owned.” Hoping to be eaten last is not a…
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Follow The Hidden Money
It has become obvious there were two groups reacting to George Floyd’s death. His family/friends/supporters who wanted wanted answers from government and were exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances; and the Antifa, looking to cause trouble.Antifa has been very careful – there have been no homes destroyed,…
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The Fifth Killer
Police and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) deal with a lot of people in crisis – including various medical crises, exacerbated or caused by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, or physical pathologies. Combining the stress of a contact with police, the medical episode and other contributing factors can cause all sorts of problems, some of them potentially…
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This Is My Town, Sparky
Thursday evening, I decided to walk down to Snelling Avenue to check out the situation. I saw broken glass at Lloyd’s Pharmacy, at the corner of Snelling and Minnehaha. I decided to check out the situation. The situation nearly came to me. I saw a vibrant group of youths carrying bags of merchandise out of…
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The New, Old And Future Normal
One’s outrage over George Floyd’s death varies depending on one’s definition of normal.If you’re just going about your business, acting in an ordinary and normal way, the cops shouldn’t hassle you and certainly shouldn’t kill you. So what is “normal?”Philandro Castillo was driving and carrying a pistol while high on marijuana. The Black community considered…
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I Have A Theory
My theory: America is protesting – angrily, but generally peacefully – over the death of George Floyd and all of the history in, about and around it. America is rioting, on the other hand, because America is bored stiff after ten weeks of being cooped up inside with each other, unemployed or underemployed, being told…
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DFL: You Do Own This
When the DFL wins yet another one-party election in one of their one-party towns, Minneapolis or Saint Paul, they are – or, not too long ago – were wont to chant “We own this town”. They may not be quite so loud about that anymore. And yes, Minnesota DFL – you own Minneapolis this morning.…