‘Do what they say’: Minneapolis police warn people to obey criminals for their own safety as violent crime crashes amid BLM protests

Besieged Minneapolis Police advise residents on survival skills amid a wave of violent crime, offering tips such as’ be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse / wallet ‘to thieves and’ don’t step not alone”.

“Do not argue and do not fight with the criminal,” police said in a July 28 letter to residents of the Third Arrondissement. “Do what they say. Your safety is the most important. “

The Third Borough, southeast of downtown, was one of the areas hardest hit by the protests, turned into riots, which broke out after the May 25 murder of black George Floyd in custody sight in Minneapolis. The protests and subsequent riots in the neighboring cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul’s marked the second most destructive incident of civil unrest in U.S. history. Police were forced to abandon their Third District headquarters for their own safety on May 28 as rioters knocked down a fence and set the building on fire.

Minneapolis city government tells residents to be prepared to give up their phones and wallets and always cooperate with criminals: pic.twitter.com/qQhw4YLRSY

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Carjackings and other thefts have exploded in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Police said there were 20 car hijackings and 100 other robberies in July in the Third District alone. “Some victims were smeared, dragged, assaulted and others threatened with a firearm”, police said in the warning to residents.

In an era of growing crime and a push by many leftists to dismantle the police and “Reinvent” Law enforcement in Democratic-controlled cities, self-help councils in Minneapolis may be a sign of things to come.

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The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously in June to replace the city’s police department with a “Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention, which will be responsible for public safety services with a holistic approach focused on public health.”

The plan will have to be approved by voters in November, which means that it will primarily affect police resources after 2020, but the city last month took $ 1.1 million from this year’s police budget to fund a Department of Health program to which staff are sent. “Media” violent conflicts. Some Minneapolis residents are already adjusting to the deterioration in public safety by establishing armed patrols in their neighborhoods.

Minneapolis Police are operating under a court order that prohibits tactics such as strangulation holds and requires any use of rubber bullets or other crowd control measures to be approved by the Chief of Police . More than 150 officers have filed disability claims for post-traumatic stress disorder and other injuries sustained during the protests.

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In Seattle, where officers have been banned from using crowd control weapons altogether, Police Chief Carmen Best warned business owners last month that her department would “No ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large and violent crowd.”

Seattle city council members introduced a resolution on Friday to create a new community safety service that would replace much of the police force.

Police were also overpowered by officials in the city of Portland, which reported 15 homicides in July, the highest monthly total in more than three decades. According to police data, 63 shootings were reported in the first 29 days of July, up from 28 in July 2019.

Newsmax reporter John Cardillo, a former New York police officer, said in a tweet that the letter from Minneapolis essentially tells residents of “Prepare to be robbed, obey criminals and hand over their property. This is where we are now. “

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