Minneapolis ‘Disband the Police’; Council Members Using Private Security

 

Minneapolis Police

We’ll protect you! We’ll protect you real good!

No, seriously, look:

The City of Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day for private security for three council members who have received threats following the police killing of George Floyd, FOX 9 has learned.

A city spokesperson said the private security details have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks.

The three council members who have the security detail – Andrea Jenkins (Ward 8), and Phillipe Cunningham (Ward 4), and Alondra Cano (Ward 9)– have been outspoken proponents of defunding the Minneapolis Police Department.

Can’t imagine why they wouldn’t just get police protection.

Maybe if we can talk Lileks down from the bell tower they will feel safer.

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  1. kedavis Coolidge
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    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):
    If we don’t like the job the police are doing and can fire them en masse, surely it would be less disruptive to fire the mayor and city council!

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

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  2. Paul Stinchfield Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

     

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  3. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

     

    The Marching Morons, CM Kornbluth. A classic in the field.

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  4. kedavis Coolidge
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    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

    And how the Golgafrinchan home world got into THEIR mess.  Remember, everyone died from a disease they got from a dirty telephone.

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  5. kedavis Coolidge
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    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

     

    The Marching Morons, CM Kornbluth. A classic in the field.

    Also let’s remember to give respects to Idiocracy.

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  6. kedavis Coolidge
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    And it seems the Morons are, indeed, Marching.  In Minneapolis, and Portland, Seattle…

    Perhaps from the first time I heard the expression, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,” it didn’t sound right.  I’ve always thought, and I may have actually been prophetic, that “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is KILLED.”

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  7. Basil Fawlty Member
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    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

     

    The Marching Morons, CM Kornbluth. A classic in the field.

    Which Mark Steyn is currently reading aloud for members of the Mark Steyn Club!

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  8. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Basil Fawlty (View Comment):

    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    Paul Stinchfield (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Heh. But how do we fire the vast numbers of liberals who voted for these fools?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtJvVgIG9Y

    How about the Golgafrincham Space Ark solution? Oh wait–that’s how Earth got into this mess.

     

    The Marching Morons, CM Kornbluth. A classic in the field.

    Which Mark Steyn is currently reading aloud for members of the Mark Steyn Club!

    Oh my! Perfect.

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  9. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    The common line on the pro-“defund” side: the police aren’t there to prevent crime, as evidenced by the fact that crime is occurring now. They only show up and take notes and don’t do anything.

    In related news:

    A juvenile was sexually assaulted overnight Thursday at Minneapolis’ Powderhorn Park — the site of growing homeless encampments and in a neighborhood where residents have vowed not to call police.

    The incident happened at one of the park’s encampments, Park and Recreation Board spokeswoman Dawn Sommers said Saturday.

    The people who took the victim to the hospital did not call police, Sommers said. Staff at Abbott Northwestern Hospital called park police early Friday morning.

    You call the police, and someone might get, you know, Justice-System Involved.

    The community will sort it out.

    Hey, Buffy’s “imaginary” sister has done well!

    Actually the police do prevent crimes, of course, but I suppose more often they do arrive on the scene after the fact.

    Yes but their existence acts as deterrent as we see in Seattle and Atlanta

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