And you? The citizen of Minneapolis? Presuming you’re not part of the political class?
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Shot in the Dark
Cranking Open The Big Brass Nozzle Of Truth Since 2002
Couldn’t help noticing this side article. Are these men a reincarnation of the Deacons for Defense?
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/07/21/minnesota-freedom-fighters-are-bearing-arms-to-help-bridge-gap-between-minneapolis-police-and-community/
This is a blatant move to control narrative and information. And fun with numbers – “Look! We defunded the police! We eliminated an entire department!” And retard reprobates will eat this shit up like pabulum.
boss, I am reposting from an earlier thread:
Speaking of “freedom fighters”, but sadly on the heals of all that arms buying hysteria. Hate to tell you, but i told you so. Well no, I do not hate it.
Louisville protests descend into chaos when armed protester accidentally shoots members of his group, injuring 3
What can go wrong?
While I cannot bring myself to lament the loss of a single civil service job (the function will simply shift elsewhere) the move is emblematic of the Minneapolis City Council.
This is the “progressive” council that could have limited the power of the police union decades ago, and every decade since, to avoid this whole mess but instead it busied itself with nitpicking and useless symbolic gestures.
In other words, Minneapolis has no government, rather the city finances the world’s most expensive performance art.
Ivanka is in Bloomington and Duluth today.
When I’m expect accuracy and transparency, I always look to the Minneapolis City Council to provide it.
Actually, I lied. I never expect accuracy and transparency.
“This is a blatant move to control narrative and information. And fun with numbers – “Look! We defunded the police! We eliminated an entire department!” ”
I’ve had my doubts that defunding, restructuring, or even eliminating the police union protections was ever really an agenda of the city council or the DFL as a whole. JPA has it right- this will act to control the narrative and control the narrative in the future. The public can’t be angry at anything the police do wrong if we don’t know what they’ve done. Likewise, when it’s time for the public to be angry, we can’t be happy if we don’t know what they’ve done right.
Not quite sure that an in-house publicist is the way to go to get accurate information out–it’ll take an internal culture designed to do so–but I dare suggest that when the handoff of information crosses departments, that won’t help the matter.