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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:Importing poverty from abroad, creating slums (and dependence) in areas throughout the country. Somalia is a shit hole, who would ever think this is a good idea to import people from there, or from several other shit holes in the world.

Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities that are paid for each and every one they relocate.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:

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Originally posted by 2012BOSS302:Importing poverty from abroad, creating slums (and dependence) in areas throughout the country. Somalia is a shit hole, who would ever think this is a good idea to import people from there, or from several other shit holes in the world.

Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities that are paid for each and every one they relocate.

Isn't it sad?
The churches have been abandoned by the socialist countries of the EU. Here in the US, they are seeding their own destruction as well.
The leftists and the Muslims have an unholy alliance.

This officer was a diversity hire. Plain and simple. Most likely was helped through the system to leap frog him to make officer.
Until somebody with authority to know tells me he is a actual US citizen I will have my doubts.

There is much that goes under reported by what these Somali's are bringing to Minneapolis/St. Paul. A good many of the young adolescents are ripe for radicalization as they are radical already. Many have no jobs and are getting assistance from the state so they have plenty time to harass the local residents of Lake Calhoun.



As well as protest.

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I am not sure what sort of a critter a Medaria Arradondo is, but it doesn't sound very Police Chiefy.

St. Paul is just across the river from Minneapolis, but Todd Axtell is the Police Chief there. Definitely sounds more Police Chiefy.

Turns out the now fired Chief was hiking in Colorado when the shooting took place. Had she cut short her vacation, she might - repeat might - still have her job.

http://www.startribune.com/jon...d-the-end/436038193/

Jon Tevlin: Police chief's absence spelled the end

JULY 22, 2017 — 3:16PM

It took Chief Janeé Harteau nearly five days to respond to the shooting of Justine Damond by officer Mohamed Noor. It took Mayor Betsy Hodges and the City Council a matter of hours Friday to decide Harteau was no longer the right person to lead the police force.

The idea that Harteau could lose her job had been gaining steam in City Hall over the past week, during which time the chief posted photos of herself on Facebook from Telluride, Colo. As her department came under fire, again, because one of Harteau's officers shot an unarmed woman, Harteau's social media showed her riding a gondola up a mountain.

"It's not just an isolated circumstance," said Linea Palmisano, the council member from the ward where Damond was killed. "It's cumulative."

Harteau resigned Friday but was about to be fired, sources said.

Palmisano read me several e-mails from constituents angry about Harteau's lack of urgency over the shooting and her handling of the department in general. Palmisano was one of several council members Friday to call for more council control over police, and to call for Harteau's resignation. The chief's already rocky relationship with Hodges obviously didn't help.

Harteau certainly doesn't own all the crises that have tarnished the police force the past few years, but political expediency made her departure inevitable.

For four days, city leaders offered sympathies to the victim's family and friends, while others attended vigils and helped the Damonds with plans for a memorial service. Reporters who tried to find out where Harteau was were met with silence, or vague answers that she was on previously booked "personal time" and "out of state."

Vacation?

No one used that word.

An illness in the family? We could understand that.

Rumors spread that the chief was in Europe. Then Colorado, with maybe a plan to leave for Europe after that. In her place, Medaria Arradondo stood with Hodges to answer questions from the media, the unspoken ghost of Harteau hovering in the air.

She was the chief of whom we did not speak.

Harteau returned to Minnesota, then held a news conference Thursday evening. She used uncharacteristic, perhaps unprecedented, language in talking about the shooting, saying "Based on the publicly released information from the BCA, this should not have happened."

It was a dramatic appearance. Yet several Australian reporters expressed disbelief that the chief was missing in action and did not contact Damond's family in Australia during that time. Had this happened in their country — which it wouldn't — their commissioner of police would come home immediately, they said.

Harteau again said she was in a remote location, backpacking.

Apparently an assistant for the chief sent an e-mail to City Council members on Monday, July 17 — more than a day after the shooting — advising them Harteau was "out of state and out of the country for a personal vacation," to return Aug. 1.

There it was, the V word.

Before Harteau surfaced, I checked events scheduled in Denver last weekend to look for clues of what might have been keeping her away. There was this: the "Where's Waldo Tennyson Street Scavenger Hunt." I'm not making this up.

Where's Waldo? Where was Chief Harteau?

Telluride, it turned out. Then, she says, backpacking.

On Monday, she posted a message on her work Twitter account acknowledging the "pain and frustration" of Damond's "tragic death" and offered condolences to the family.

I get it. Vacations are important. Harteau works long, grueling hours and is on call around the clock. But she runs the police department of a major city, one that has a growing reputation for questionable police behavior, and one of her employees had just shot an innocent woman. I can think of few other scenarios that would scream more than this for the chief of police to be present as soon as possible.

Before Harteau's resignation, Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, was unequivocal about the chief's absence: It was wrong.

"I texted her asking, 'Who is the point of contact handling this situation?' " Kroll said. "She didn't even reply to the text, which is unusual. I know that [she was taking] personal time, but she's the chief."

"After the John Delmonico debacle, is there any doubt who is running the police department?" Kroll asked, referring to Hodges' decision to overrule Harteau in the chief's appointment of Delmonico to run the Fourth Precinct. "Everybody knows it isn't Janeé running the police department, it's Betsy."

On Friday, before Harteau resigned, some council members talked of giving the council more police oversight.

"I respect the chief, I respect the mayor," said Jacob Frey, who is challenging Hodges in the 2017 race for mayor. "But when there's a lack of confidence that people can call 911 without getting shot themselves, it's time for a change."

Harteau wouldn't be the first ranking official to lose a job — at least partly — over a vacation.

Sonia Pitt, the director of homeland security for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, was at a conference in Boston when the I-35W bridge fell 10 years ago. Rather than return home, Pitt went to Washington, D.C., for eight days. She was later fired for being absent at a crucial time. Pitt's absence was the final nail in the coffin of Carol Molnau, who subsequently lost her job as commissioner of the state's transportation department.

I like Harteau. I'm sure she did her best to lead the force. In these times, it wasn't enough. I sincerely hope she enjoys her next trip. I just wouldn't recommend Australia right now.


Follow Jon on Twitter: @jontevlin

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This looks like a shill article from one of the Mayor's media stooges, trying to deflect blame from Mayor onto the Chief because the Chief had the nerve to be on vacation and out of cell phone reception.

From what I gather, the Mayor was already mad at the Chief for backing the officers in the Jamar Clark shooting and for trying to promote the former head of the Police Union (who had been critical of the Mayor).

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From what I gather, the Mayor was already mad at the Chief for backing the officers in the Jamar Clark shooting and for trying to promote the former head of the Police Union (who had been critical of the Mayor).

You are correct sir...it has been entertaining to watch.

Text messages show argument between Hodges, Harteau over Delmonico appointment
http://www.startribune.com/tex...pointment/434298333/

Where are Lucas Davenport and that fuckin' Virgil Flowers? Aren't they members of the BCA? They should be able to straighten this shit out quickly.

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Where are Lucas Davenport and that fuckin' Virgil Flowers? Aren't they members of the BCA? They should be able to straighten this shit out quickly.

That F'n Flowers!!

...and the shit is beginning to come out.

Fast-track training put officer Mohamed Noor on Minneapolis police force

Minneapolis made a significant financial investment in Mohamed Noor.

The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program. The seven-month training is a quicker, nontraditional route to policing aimed at helping those who already have a college degree enter law enforcement.

The Minneapolis program covers tuition at Hennepin Technical College and pays trainees a $20-an-hour salary with benefits while they work to get licensed. After that their salary bumps up.

And this ladies and gents, is the good mayor of Minneapolis, MN.

Always good to see the Leftists eat their own... and a large leftist utopia crumble.

You reap what you sow...

Looks like Betsy may be toast in November. The question is: Will Minneapolis see the error of its ways and at least move a bit back toward center in their mayoral choice or go even harder left to "rein in the police". My wish is for the former, but my gut tells me the latter.

"he was paired with officer Matthew Harrity, who had been a cop for about one year."

A lot of inexperience in one radio car.

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"he was paired with officer Matthew Harrity, who had been a cop for about one year."

So much for the TV/Movie stereotype of the young rookie always being paired up with the grizzled veteran.

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And this ladies and gents, is the good mayor of Minneapolis, MN.

Nice to see that Betsy the "progressive", and the rest of the left, is so happy and willing to drag women back about 1500 years.

2017 mayor candidate list looks scary

Democratic-Farmer-Labor:

Raymond Dehn, State Representative
Al Flowers, community activist
Jacob Frey, City Council Member
Tom Hoch, former President of the Hennepin Theatre Trust
Betsy Hodges, incumbent Mayor
Nekima Levy-Pounds, civil rights activist, former President of the Minneapolis NAACP
Jeffrey Sterling Olson
Aswar Rahman, filmmaker
Captain Jack Sparrow, perennial candidate

Republican Party of Minnesota:

Jonathan Honerbrink, community activist

Socialist Workers Party:

David Rosenfeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...yoral_election,_2017

Yeah. A lot of bad choices in that list, sdy.

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So much for the TV/Movie stereotype of the young rookie always being paired up with the grizzled veteran.

That has been a dying practice in an effort to disrupt the perception of the "Thin Blue Line"...trying to change the culture to one where vicarious liability becomes a paramount consideration

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2017 mayor candidate list looks scary

I'd have to go with Captain Jack Sparrow.

Seriously, that city doesn't stand a chance.