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There goes my hero, watch him as he goes
Another self-sacrificing black Minnesotan takes one for the BLM movement. Inspiring.
LOOTING FOR WINSTON SMITH OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM
Winston Smith is the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984. He is not to be confused with Winston Boogie Smith. According to CrimeWatchMpls, Winston Boogie Smith is the reported decedent in the police involved shooting at the top of the parking ramp adjacent to Calhoun Square in the heart of Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood.
Smith (if it was Smith) was the target of an arrest operation that went down in the heart of Minneapolis yesterday afternoon. John wrote about the shooting last night here. I offer these notes based on preliminary reports subject to correction assuming Smith was the target of the arrest operation.
• A joint law enforcement task force conducted the arrest operation.
• The arrest operation was led by the United States Marshals Service. The Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency.
• The arrest operation included other local Twin Cities law enforcement agencies including the Hennepin County Sheriffs office.
• The Minneapolis Police Department was not part of the arrest operation.
• Smith was wanted for being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm. I have not seen the warrant in any news report.
• Smith was trapped in his vehicle by officers at the top of the parking ramp. He was in the company of a lady friend.
• Smith pulled a gun on the officers.
• Numerous shots were fired. I assume officers from more than one of the agencies took him down.
• Smith was out on parole subject to a partially stayed prison sentence. He was sentenced to 48 months in October 2018 for first degree aggravated robbery in Hennepin County District Court. Three years of Smith’s sentence was stayed by Judge Jay Quam.
• “Ima Shoot Back,” “I Ain’t Going With My Hand Up,’ Smith bragged on social media in September 2019.
• Smith’s social media posts suggest his inspiration by the death of the sainted George Floyd.
• Smith’s lady friend survived the incident, though she may have sustained minor injuries.
• Reports of the operation occasioned the obligatory “unrest,” i.e., rioting vandalism, and looting.
• Minneapolis police used flash-bangs to break up victims of unrest, a/k/a looters, vandals, and rioters causing damage to stores and property.
• As of early Friday, Minneapolis police did not have the number of arrests that were made throughout the night.”
• There is more “unrest” to come.
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https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND WHEN THEY DON’T: A Year After George Floyd’s Murder, It’s ‘Open Season’ in Minneapolis: Homicides have more than doubled in a year. Three children have been shot in the past month.
Al Sharpton and civil-rights attorney Benjamin Crump led a march in downtown Minneapolis Sunday in advance of the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death on May 25. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd’s murder last month.
Messrs. Sharpton and Crump didn’t visit North Memorial Health Hospital, where two recent victims of a yearlong explosion of violence in Minneapolis are on life support. On April 30 Ladavionne Garrett Jr. , 10, was riding in a car with his parents when a gunman opened fire. A bullet pierced Ladavionne’s head; doctors put him in a medically induced coma and removed part of his skull to relieve swelling on the brain. On May 15, 9-year-old Trinity Ottoson-Smith was jumping on a trampoline at a friend’s house when bullets fired from a passing car struck her in the head. She is also in critical condition at North Memorial, in the room next to Ladavionne’s.
Nineteen children in Minneapolis have been shot this year, an increase of 171% over the same period in 2020. Their relatives wonder where the protesters are. “Why ain’t nobody mad about a 10-year-old, my grandson, fighting for his life?” asked Sharrie Jennings, Ladavionne’s grandmother, at a May 17 mayoral event. “Because a cop didn’t shoot him, is that why?” Ms. Jennings warned of “a deadly summer” for kids if the mayor and police chief don’t “step up.” Later that day, Aniya Allen, 6, was caught in a shootout between rival gangs while in her mother’s car. Aniya died on May 19.
Portland needs to burn.
I blame the left for this shit. For whatever reason we've carved out an exception for black people where we exempt them from the same standards of behavior and actions that everyone else in our society is expected to live up to. And nobody says anything about it, and you're not supposed to talk about it.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-winston-boogie-smith-felon-who-beat-ex-girlfriend
I'll bet his FICO score wasn't very high either. Fucking racist lack of generational wealth. Dazzler is too busy blaming the high cost of college.