Police State

Last Friday, The U.S. Department of Justice released its report of its investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.  This investigation was started in the aftermath of four police officers murdering George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in south Minneapolis. 

We all knew the report was going to be brutal.  It ended up being far worse. I highly encourage you to read the full report (https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1587661/download).

What I'm going to post here are a few dozen of the choicer excerpts. This is disgusting behavior, made by a police force that never thought they would be held accountable.  This was a police force that HATED the people of Minneapolis, HATED the news media, and punished the minorities of the city with ruthless cruelty.

Since it became clear what was coming down, the police who were the problem, mainly the former head of the police union Bob Kroll and his intentionally built force of hate, have fled, like rats jumping off a ship. They ran away because their days of abusing the city were over.  Their sick twisted jollies can no longer be fulfilled by violently assaulting the masses at will.  They ran before they could be held accountable, but I would love to drag every one of those cowards back to the city by their short hairs and put them on trial.

This was a disgrace; not only by the police department, but by their enablers too.  There was the whipped Hennepin County Attorney who refused to hold these out-of-control officers accountable.  There were the repeated ineffectual mayors who were (AT BEST) unable to reign in the worst gang in the city; at worst they were condoning the behavior.

And there was one other group that needs to be held accountable, the Republican Party of Minnesota, which is really responsible for this behavior going unchecked.  Through legislation, they made it virtually impossible for anyone to hold the police accountable for anything, and in return, the Minneapolis police would lend themselves to Republican political campaigns with endorsements, photo ops, and a now haunting narrative; "vote for the Republicans and they'll allow us to keep 'THOSE PEOPLE' under control."  The Minnesota Republicans are a major reason this debacle occurred.

Funny.  Those cowards are also the most quiet about the abuse they allowed to be unleashed on the citizens of the city.

Read through the highlights of the report.  Warning - there is a lot of adult language.  I guarantee even the most pro-cop individual will eventually have to pick their jaw up from the table when they realize the extent of the tyrannical police state that existed in Minneapolis.

I have hope the DOJ and the new Chief will clean this mess up.

And for the officers who did all of these things, may you all burn in hell.