This is what Minneapolis Police Officers have to deal with, every day. Not quite as bad as Chicago, but 54 shootings in 81 days is pretty awful.
At least five struck by gunfire over weekend in north Minneapolis
At least five people were struck by gunfire, including an 18-year-old man who was shot dead, in separate shootings across north Minneapolis between Saturday morning and Sunday evening.
The shootings left residents in several North Side communities concerned, including in the Webber-Camden neighborhood, where on Saturday around midday Derrick Mack was gunned down by a person who fled before police arrived. Mack was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other victims were in vehicles or inside their homes. In one case, two people were shot near the corner of 34th and Fremont avenues N. shortly after midnight on Saturday. Around the same time the following night, a gunman opened fire at a house on the same block.
No arrests had been announced as of Monday afternoon.
The shootings come as gun-related violence has risen in Minneapolis much like in other Midwestern cities, such as Cleveland and Chicago.
Fifty-four people have been shot in Minneapolis through March 21, the last day for which police data were available, an 86 percent increase over the same period last year. In north Minneapolis alone, 43 people were injured in shootings, compared with 15 last year, police records show.
Meanwhile, the city is also coping with a rise in violent crime, which has jumped 5.3 percent compared with this time last year. Serious crimes like aggravated assaults and rapes have increased 21 percent downtown, while the Second and Third police precincts have seen a sharp rise in the number of robberies, records show.
http://www.startribune.com/at-least...-over-weekend-in-north-minneapolis/373775771/
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So, where are Black Lives Matter activists, NAACP/ Nekima Levy-Pounds, and the rest of those activists right now?
Are they going to rally and protest the shootings of 5 people over the Easter holiday weekend, with NO ARRESTS?
Are they going to give a press conference and talk about the 54 people shot in Minneapolis so far this year??
Are they going to *demand justice* for the 54 people shot-- at least 6 of whom are under age 10??
Are they going to weep and wail and protest the sharp rise in violent crime, rapes, and robberies?
Are they going to urge residents to call police and work with police to solve crime in their neighborhoods? Turn in the gang bangers to police? Stop harboring fugitives in their homes and neighborhoods?
No. I don't think the activists will do any of that. They will continue to pretend that the violent crime committed by residents of their neighborhoods doesn't exist, and the only outrage they have is that police officers have to deal with the crimes and criminals.
This is why their rallies and protests ring so hollow, and most reasonable people are so tired and disgusted with their brand of cherry picked "activism". They don't care that kids,
little kids, are being shot in their community by gang bangers, and no arrests made. But let a career criminal like Jamar Clark get himself shot while committing
multiple violent felonies, and fighting with police officers and paramedics helping the woman he just beat up and broke her leg (and who had a
5 year restraining order against him) and now these "activists" have some kind of a "cause" to get behind. Jamar Clark threw a brick through her front window, and tried to burn her apartment down by dousing it in lighter fluid a few months earlier, WHILE under a restraining order-- and got PROBATION for that crime. WTH?? AND he was awaiting trial on terroristic threats and a high speed chase from police. He was no angel, but *activists* won't talk about what kind of criminal Jamar Clark REALLY was. Because that doesn't play well to the cameras when they're trying to whip up manufactured sympathy for a criminal.
So don't tell me we're being "too hard" on these criminals, and locking them all up unfairly in "mass incarceration". Jamar Clark should have been in prison in November.
Can anyone really imagine what it's like to be a police officer in these kinds of violent neighborhoods every single day? I'm thankful they are there, but I can't understand why they do this job in these violent places, with so many people who hate them, resent them, want to see them dead. Residents who presumably don't even care about the random shootings of truly innocent little kids, and their neighbors. When they grow a conscience and start feeling outrage for the shot kids, and start rallying and protesting for those victims, the public will join them. But not while they support violent criminals.
I'm sorry Jamar Clark made the choices he did to be a violent criminal. My sympathy, and my outrage, is for the police officers whose lives and livelihood has been destroyed because of him. And for the truly innocent kids and bystanders shot in these dangerous neighborhoods. Their community doesn't care enough to protest and demand justice for them, only for criminals.
