…then people will do it for themselves. That is not always a good thing.
Last week, Minneapolis was briefly roiled at the story of three black teenagers who died when their car rolled during a police chase.
The roiling muted a bit when it got out that the teens who were just on the brink of getting their lives together had just beaten the dritt out of a 72 year old woman to steal her car.
Pictures capture the marks left on a 72-year-old woman’s face after she was the victim of a carjacking in north Minneapolis.
It’s an experience Schlee says has also left a mark on her aunt’s overall well being.
“They punched her and knocked her to the ground to get her purse. They took off in their car, got halfway down the alley, realized they had the keys to her car backed up and she was standing up by now they got back out, hopped in her car,” said Schlee.
Schlee says her aunt’s car is the one Minneapolis police were chasing through north Minneapolis early Monday morning, with three teenagers inside.
All three teenagers in the car died when they lost control and crashed. Schlee says her aunt had been in the area near Dowling Ave. N, taking care of a relative’s cat.
The story didn’t get much coverage, but it did at least same some of the usual outrage hustlers into shutting up for once.
For now.
This is DFL rule in MInneapolis. Or anywhere, really.
I’m pretty sure I don’t understand the connection between the subject/title and post itself. A crime was committed, the police stepped, the criminals died… did I miss something? Where are the vigilantes?
I interpreted it not as a direct connection, but as an extrapolation.
I have read the article. I saw what happened to a senior citizen minding her own business. I conclude the world has changed from when I was a teen. I extrapolate from that crime that I am at heightened risk of becoming the the victim of a similar crime.
I spent an hour shopping on-line for Inside the Waistband holsters. If the police won’t protect me . . . .
The worst part about this sort of incident is the racial component – Black teens beat up White granny – because it poisons race relations for everybody.
It shouldn’t be a Black – White thing. It should be a Thug – Citizen thing. I’m in favor of arresting Thugs of all races to protect citizens of all races. Or chasing them down when they flee arrest.
The article says there were 60 carjackings reported so far this year. Can we get suspect descriptions? If they’re randomly spread across all races, that’s one thing; but if all 60 are Black teens, can we have a conversation about what to do about it?
OK, thanks, JD. Good comments.
Glad to see those teenagers saved the taxpayers the difficulty and expense of a trial and incarceration….
…..and I’d bet a nickel that if you really sussed out root causes, you’d have a bunch of people of all races and ethnicities very offended that you pointed at their failure to marry the other parent of their children.
“Now, four families are left trying to make sense of it all.”
Nah. Three of those families are trying to figure out how to turn the death of their feral sons into cold, hard cash.
100% guarantee you they contacted a lawyer already. But that’s not the worst part. The worst part is, not only will they find one, they have more than a 50:50 chance on getting that cash…your cash.
“I spent an hour shopping on-line for Inside the Waistband holsters. If the police won’t protect me . . . .”
Yeah well, good luck with that. You may stop an attack from a group of feral black youths, but your local Democrat prosecutor will pick up where they left off. And when he’s done with you, J. Laqu’an Robinson III, Esq. will take whats left to console the grieving families.
You’ll likely lose everything anyway.
Your clear and present danger isn’t in a convenience store parking lot, it’s in St. Paul. And you’re getting your asses kicked real good from left and what passes for the right up there.
“…..and I’d bet a nickel that if you really sussed out root causes, you’d have a bunch of people of all races and ethnicities very offended that you pointed at their failure to marry the other parent of their children.”
Right. We’d certianly be remiss not to include those gangs of white kids operating in the TC; jacking cars, beating the fuck out of old women, pistol whipping those not fast enough in handing over their cell phone, rat packing merry makers stupid enough to party near their turf, cold cocking those not alert enough to see them coming from behind… just because it’s fun…
Well, now… I feel better for that candid fabrication, how bout you?
Swiftee, I think that you are getting into dangerous territory if you believe that the black yutes attacked the grandmother and stole her car because they were black.
Where I live now, just over the border in Wisconsin, last week they busted a crazy meth house, eight arrested, drugs everywhere, people sleeping in junk cars on the property.
Every one of the arrested was white as a dove’s breast.
A while back one of the farmers west of Luck grew tired of the noise and disruption from a nearby meth house that he claimed was affecting his cow’s milk production so one morning about 4 am he fired up his skid steer drove over and stacked all their cars and trucks on top of each other. Much later that morning a deputy showed up and a couple of the demobilized miscreants had outstanding warrants. The deputy couldn’t figure out how the cars got stacked because no one saw anything or had any idea how it could have happened. Eventually an auto insurance adjuster showed up, totaled one of the cars and hired a towing company to extract the car. Turns out unstacking cars is harder than stacking them.
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Pig,
That’s classic! Someone needs to buy that farmer a beer or three!
Let’s not accuse the farmer of doing anything nefarious, since we don’t have proof.
Sometimes cars stack themselves spontaneously.
It’s a meth thing.
🙂 🙂
Yeah, sure the police couldn’t figure it out. Certainly the tines on the skid-steer’s forklift didn’t leave any marks on the undercarriages of those cars.
Personally, I congratulate the farmer on his bravery there, or perhaps just pure orneriness. I’ve heard tell that meth dealers can often resort to violence, and the drug often keeps them up at 4am.
More broadly, yes, white people do these kinds of stupid things, too. It’s not as bad yet because there isn’t the same “critical mass” of unwed parenting as there is in inner city black communities, but visit any trailer park in the nation.
Certainly the tines on the skid-steer’s forklift didn’t leave any marks on the undercarriages of those cars.
What about tracks? Where is Insp. Clouseau when you need him?
:^) Yeah, I’m thinking the police were pretty darned happy that someone had done one to the dopers, and hence their “investigation” was, shall we say, a little bit half-hearted. “Oopsie, can’t figure out who did this, especially after we hired the same farmer to bring the same Bobcat in to put those wrecked cars on flatbeds to carry away…..sorry folks, wish we could do more, but you know…”
What about tracks? Where is Insp. Clouseau when you need him?
He won’t rest until the case is sol-ved!
“Where I live now, just over the border in Wisconsin, last week they busted a crazy meth house, eight arrested, drugs everywhere, people sleeping in junk cars on the property.”
You lost me at meth.
Black youths are not running amok because of the color of their skin, at least past the extent that plays into the cultural identity they have assumed since 1964.
There’s plenty of black men and women who live successful, productive lives, but you’re not going to find them at rap concerts, or at BLM rallies, and you’re not going to find their kids there either.
The price of success is the abandonment of failure and victimhood.
BTW, the name’s Strunk; Pete Strunk.