As a forty year resident of South Minneapolis I am continually amazed at the way that people that don’t live in Minneapolis seem to know what’s best for policing in our city. We have many ‘carpetbaggers’ that spend their work day in the city and then go home, including most of the police force. They have all seen the 3rd burn down, but haven’t seen the hundreds of residents cleaning up after. They don’t interact with the many different cultures that are represented in the City and are threatened by many of them. I rely daily on people that don’t look like me and happen to think that’s one of the best points of living in the city. These carpetbaggers are afraid of the City, thinking they will be shot here. The truth is that if they don’t come here to buy drugs, and don’t stay until closing time, this is an extremely safe city to be in, if you’re not black. The burning of the 3rd, gave those cops a taste of the fear they have instilled in the Black community for decades. We have seen so many bad cops reinstated by arbitration that is imposed on us by the state, that there has to be something very bad, (George Floyd), for a cop to suffer any consequences for mistreating our citizens. Our current force consists largely of these carpetbaggers that have no respect for the different cultures represented here. Again the State says that this occupying army is what we must have policing us. The vast majority of police our legislators have experience with are very good officers, that are not in Minneapolis’s force, and can’t really believe that the force here can be so bad. Please let the City reform the police effectively for the sake of City residents by realizing that the force differs from the Pequot Lakes police force.
