Inside Mayor Frey’s meeting with victims
of crime
Posted By: voxpopuli, 3/13/2022 9:46:57 PM
Victims of crime came face-to-face with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at City Hall last week to confront him on his approach to public safety. More than 20 crime victims from across the city urged Frey to show his support for police, evaluate his messaging, and declare the crime crisis a public safety emergency. (snip) More than 20 of the group’s members who are crime victims themselves spoke with Mayor Frey on Thursday afternoon at City Hall. One was a mother whose son was murdered in a shooting; another mother spoke whose son was shot in a carjacking. Wicklund said Frey appeared “shaken and compassionate” while hearing their stories.
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Victims of crime came face-to-face with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey at City Hall last week to confront him on his approach to public safety.
More than 20 crime victims from across the city urged Frey to show his support for police, evaluate his messaging, and declare the crime crisis a public safety emergency. (snip) More than 20 of the group’s members who are crime victims themselves spoke with Mayor Frey on Thursday afternoon at City Hall. One was a mother whose son was murdered in a shooting; another mother spoke whose son was shot in a carjacking.
Wicklund said Frey appeared “shaken and compassionate” while hearing their stories.
A Wisconsin judge has ordered Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to produce deleted emails in response to an open records request filed by a liberal watchdog group seeking documents related to an investigation into the 2020 election. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn on Thursday also ordered Vos to search his private email accounts and text messages for any relevant deleted messages. The case is one of three seeking records from Vos and the investigator he hired, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who is leading a probe into the presidential election won by Joe Biden.
The thousands of rubber bullets that flew through the air after the murder of George Floyd were fired by officers who faced little to no accountability, according to an independent review of the city’s response.
A team of investigators hired by the City of Minneapolis presented their much-anticipated findings on Tuesday, which included how police failed to follow its own rules regarding the use and reporting of less-lethal force.
A St. Paul-based corporation encouraged its employees to donate money to a nonprofit that has bailed out countless violent criminals.
In an email to Alpha News, a spokesperson with Ecolab confirmed that the Ecolab Foundation provided a 50% match for employee donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. (snip) According to a screenshot provided to Alpha News, the Minnesota Freedom Fund was listed as a “featured charity” on the “Ecolab Giving Site” under a section titled “racial and social inequity.”
The U.S. will soon begin to run out of money to bolster COVID-19 testing supplies and to guarantee that uninsured Americans keep getting free treatment for the virus unless Congress swiftly approves more funding, the White House warned. (snip) “This is an urgent request and this is what is at stake in our fight against COVID,” press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.
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A Somali-born U.S. Army veteran has joined the Republican field seeking to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calling out her lack of attention to the needs of her constituents as violent crime surges in Minneapolis.
"Minneapolis just saw one of the most violent years on record, falling just one homicide short from the all-time record. The city at that time was coined ‘Murder-apolis,’" the 5th Congressional District candidate Shukri Abdirahman told Fox News Digital. (snip) Abdirahman, a practicing Muslim, added that when Omar pushed a bill to defund the police, the city and residents told her that they wanted to keep police intact.
But "their needs have been greatly neglected,"
One student is dead and another is in critical condition following a shooting outside South Education Center in Richfield Tuesday afternoon.
According to Richfield Police Chief Jay Henthorne, who spoke during a Tuesday afternoon news conference, officers responded to the school, in the area of West 75th Street and Penn Avenue South.
The newspaper hit the front porches of the wind-scarred prairie town on a Thursday afternoon: Coronavirus numbers were spiking in the farming communities of western Minnesota.
“Covid-19 cases straining rural clinics, hospitals, staff,” read the front-page headline. Vaccinate to protect yourselves, health officials urged.
But ask around Benson, stroll its three-block business district, and some would tell a different story: (snip) In one house is Reed Anfinson, publisher, editor, photographer and reporter for the Monitor-News. Most weeks, he writes every story on the paper’s front page. He wrote that story on clinics struggling with COVID-19.
He’s not the most popular man in the county
The Minnesota DFL Party announced Wednesday that illegal immigrants and felons who haven’t completed their sentences will be allowed to participate in precinct caucuses.
Party Chair Ken Martin praised the move as a “historic rule change” that reflects the party’s values.
“No Minnesotan should be denied the right to help shape the future of our party because of where they were born or because of mistakes they made in the past and have paid their debt to society for,” he said.
Students walked out of class Tuesday in St. Paul, and teachers there are planning a rally of their own.
Both demonstrations are over COVID-19 precautions.
In Minneapolis Monday, a similar scene played out where hundreds of educators and staffers marched for better benefits. (snip) teacher Liza Maney said. "If you can't live on one job, why would you continue that job is what it comes down to."
Proof of vaccination or negative test
required at Twin Cities establishments
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required at Twin Cities establishments
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced Wednesday a temporary policy for establishments serving indoor food or beverages.
View the full order from Minneapolis here and from St. Paul here.
The policy, which applies for licensed businesses at which food or drink is served indoors, will require customers to either show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative PCR or antigen test taken within 72 hours of the visit.
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Would Americans stay to fight for their
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nation the way the Ukrainians are doing?
Poll shows... 34 replies
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Here's the Washington Times story about it:
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