Today in cops gone feral

In my job, I have transported a few cars with air fresheners hanging from the rear view. I've never been stopped.

It may be a law but that's as ticky tack as it gets.

 

Walz got raked over the coals during the George Floyd riots for waiting too long and asking too many people's permission before deploying the National Guard. I'd have to dig into the data, but there was some belief that many of the real shit-stirrers, particularly a couple days in, were out-of-towners looking for trouble, a couple of Boogaloo Bois, but more likely just dumb white kids from Brainerd and the like. I think that was somewhat debunked, but I don't know who from where got charged with what from last summer. A little bit more cynically, Walz is up for re-election in 2022, and frankly, though his approval ratings on COVID are still more than 50% in favor as of a month ago, the people who are going to decide his fate are not the ones who are going to be 'over-policed' this week. It remains to be seen if the state GOP has the brains to nominate a viable candidate, but COVID orders have led to Walz being hated in some redder and rural parts of Minnesota.

This is correct. The state had a vehicle registration system from the 80s that had to be replaced simply because of hardware/software obsolence, and they replaced it with the infamous MNLARS system, which was implemented in the summer of 2017 and simply never worked. The state then dropped another $75 million to replace it wholesale, a process that was completed just in time for the pandemic.

 

I get the thinking behind this, but that sort of regulation will get police officers killed sooner or later. (Now I've got the second scene from the first episode of The Watchmen television series in my head.)

 

My phone just went off with an alarm that the area is under curfew at 7:00 and to stay indoors

 

I’m sorry, but that’s the job they trained for and willingly accepted. They aren’t protecting and serving by killing people during traffic stops, even those who aren’t angels.

 

https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials...n-minneapolis-days-after-george-floyds-death/

 

During the Minneapolis riots I watched local twitter and there were white guys, organized and setting fires in south Minneapolis.

There were videos showing faces clearly, yet nothing seems to have come of it.

Juts a group of white guys with backpacks, pulling together garbage bins, gathering things to put in and taking things out of their backpacks and putting that in as well.

Then, fire.

Imagine that.

 

Antifa is strong in outstate MN

Brainerd man pleads guilty to helping start fire at Third Precinct

 

a real genius here:

Charges: Ex-Menards security guard stole police gear amid Minneapolis Third Precinct fire

 

Good news is since she’s a she, the FOP will have no issue tossing her ovaries under the bus. If she was a he it would be “back da blue!!!!!111!!!!”

And if I recall correctly, Christmas tree air fresheners Are used to mask smoke smell — weed in particular — and that’s why cops pull those people over. They’re marijuana snooping.

 

Hey, remember the Minneapolis Umbrella Man?

I don't know if charges have been filed

A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests, earning him the moniker "Umbrella Man," is suspected of ties with a white supremacist group and sought to incite racial tension, police said.

A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the act of vandalism at the AutoZone on E. Lake Street helped spark a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The store was among dozens of buildings across the city that burned to the ground in the days that followed.

"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Sgt. Erika Christensen wrote in a search warrant affidavit filed in court this week. "Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful. The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual's sole aim was to incite violence."

Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting