@__0HOUR1_ Funny how no one is outraged about the Juneteenth holiday weekend festivities in Chicago
"At least 33 shot, 5 fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police say"
The County Attorney charges the crimes that happen here - the break-in, the stolen car, the elder scam, the kid at the crossroads, the victim waiting on a call. It is the one office with direct authority over the charging decisions that either interrupt a crime cycle or perpetuate it.
I've has done that work for forty years.
The field is focusing on the opposite. The race has been pulled almost entirely into a single, national gravity well - how aggressively each candidate will prosecute federal immigration agents in the wake of Operation Metro Surge.
That is a politics of grievance. It is loud, emotionally charged, and it pulls every candidate toward posture and away from the actual machinery of the office.
Just heard that MPD has 72 open patrol shift positions that still need staffing on Sunday, affecting all Precincts. A memo went out requesting partial or full shift sign ups to fill shifts.
#ThisIsMinneapolis#CrimeIsDown because there are no cops to respond.
South Minneapolis - Before 11 p.m., SHOOTING at Bossen Field. Initially reported as multiple injuries parties.
5701 28th Ave S
#Bossen
At least one female shot multiple times, including in the head.
@CrimeWatchMpls Sounds like the MLK Park shootings a few months back. A lot of drama, then heard nothing more about it after a few days. Probably the same h00drats.
William Hooper's own father disowned him for signing the Declaration of Independence. And that was just the beginning of what it cost him. Here's the story.
He was born in Boston in 1742, the son of a strict Anglican minister. He did everything right by his father's standards. Boston Latin School, then Harvard, then he studied law. The path was set. Be respectable, be loyal, inherit the approval.
Then he made the mistake, in his father's eyes, of thinking for himself. He studied under James Otis, one of the loudest radicals in the colonies, the man tied to the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny." Those ideas got into Hooper's blood and never left.
He moved south to Wilmington, North Carolina, built a law career, and when the break with Britain came, he picked the rebels. His Loyalist father was so disgusted he cut him off. Disowned his own son over it.
Hooper signed the Declaration anyway, adding his name in August 1776. Then he did something most people never mention. He poured his money and his future law earnings into the cause until he had wrecked his own finances for it.
The British made him pay in full. When they swept into North Carolina, they came for the signer. They shelled his estate on the sound. They burned his home in Wilmington to the ground. Two of his houses, gone.
So he ran. He became a fugitive in his own state, moving from friend's house to friend's house around Windsor and Edenton, hiding, while he was kept apart from his wife and children for months. A Harvard-trained lawyer reduced to a man with no home, slipping from door to door to avoid capture.
He survived the war, but it broke him down. His health and his fortune never fully came back. He died in 1790 at just 48 years old.
A man whose own father turned his back on him, who burned his money, lost his homes, and hid like a hunted animal, all for a country he barely got to see grow up.
William Hooper. He gave up everything, including his own family's blessing.
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An illegal alien, Abdul Dahir Ibrahim, a Somali convicted felon in the single largest welfare fraud operation in Minnesota history, posing alongside Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz. The felon was also convicted in Canada for welfare and immigration fraud—the very crimes Ilhan Omar has committed.
📝The felon is unmarried but at one point claimed his sister was his wife and her children were theirs.
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Since 2019, the number of officers attacked each year has increased more than 160%, with an average over the last few years of about 1,200 per year, which is up from 467 officers in 2019. https://t.co/2Ieo6vZ19f
This is exactly why I'm voting for Diane for Hennepin County Attorney. A proven record in the office. Time to get the crime in Hennepin County under control.
Everyone says they want to “break the cycle.” Here's what it means in practice.
1 - A small share of offenders commit a large share of repeat crimes.
2 - When those cases get pled down or dropped, the same person is back out in weeks.
3 - Interrupting the cycle means prioritizing repeat and violent offenders for serious prosecution, not treating every case as equal.
4 - This is the one office with the direct authority to do that.
It starts with charging decisions. Hennepin County doesn't need a continuation of the same bad decisions with a different name, face, and signature.