{"id":78169,"date":"2021-06-03T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78169"},"modified":"2021-06-03T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:44:47","slug":"breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78169","title":{"rendered":"Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>\u201cGeorge Floyd Square\u201c in south Minneapolis is being cleared.<\/p><p>By\u2026 <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, s<a href=\"omebody:\">omebody:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s 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 <em>not involved<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> According to CBSN Minnesota, city workers began clearing concrete barriers from the area in the early hours of Thursday morning. Local network KSTP reported that angry community members have started arriving at the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Keller&#8217;s on-the-scene reporting at Channel Nine <em>led <\/em>with &#8220;this is a community project&#8221; &#8211; as if a &#8220;community group&#8221; (Agape, which to be fair is a well-established group in Minneapolis) could get a bunch of public works employees (who report to the. Mayor) out on the street at 4AM, <em>to clear the most incendiary political hotspot in the city, if not the US<\/em>, without the Mayor&#8217;s say-so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it\u2019s almost as if the city of Minneapolis realizes leaving part of the city blocked off is not politically tenable, but the \u201cprogressive\u201d wing of the DFL that runs the city doesn\u2019t want an even more \u201cprogressive\u201c wing to use this against them next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Because that is the option in Minneapolis; if you think Jacob Frey and Lisa Bender are bad, he\u2019s not going to get replaced bye a Republican; he is going to be replaced by someone who makes Ray Dehn seem like Hubert Humphrey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  Oh, yeah &#8211; no cops, no how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MORE:  We heard from MPD who says the department is not involved in this, and called it a \u201ccommunity-led project.\u201d<\/p>&mdash; Gia Vang (@Gia_Vang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gia_Vang\/status\/1400409422753583107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not everybody&#8217;s buying it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will say I don&#39;t believe that which is why I&#39;ve reached out!<\/p>&mdash; Jason DeRusha (@DeRushaJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeRushaJ\/status\/1400425382734618626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll meet the city&#8217;s PR campaign half-way &#8211; I believe the MPD is being kept far from the scene.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ready, yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearby in plain sight?  No way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGeorge Floyd Square\u201c in south Minneapolis is being cleared. By\u2026 &#8230;well, somebody: But it\u2019s 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. 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