Minneapolis Officer arrested.

OSUBucks wrote:They don't have a plan, they just interviewed a guy on TV. All he said is that they want to go with community based policing and no cops.

OSUBucks wrote:I didn't realize how dangerous a city Minneapolis was. It actually ranks one spot ahead of Chicago. The rape and robbery rates are especially bad. Being a cop in that city can't be easy. I can understand that people are hurting and want changes made. Making a decision so soon after the tragedy is a decision that is directed by the emotions of the moment, not one that is well reasoned.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/14/

Teetime wrote:

OSUBucks wrote:I didn't realize how dangerous a city Minneapolis was. It actually ranks one spot ahead of Chicago. The rape and robbery rates are especially bad. Being a cop in that city can't be easy. I can understand that people are hurting and want changes made. Making a decision so soon after the tragedy is a decision that is directed by the emotions of the moment, not one that is well reasoned.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/14/

My four kids live in Chicago (2), Minneapolis and St. Louis...all made the list.

St. Louis is #1 again!

tps wrote:frustration in chicago - https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

OSUBucks wrote:

tps wrote:frustration in chicago - https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

After reading that I find that the situation in Chicago is even worse than I thought. Gang members shooting at cops with AK47's? Those weapons aren't legal to own.

ramblinman wrote:When it was obvious that I was holding onto my phone, he just kept moving on down the platform until he found some other guy doing what I was doing.  That guy dropped his phone after being hit, and the kid picked it up and took off on foot.

19delta wrote:

OSUBucks wrote:

tps wrote:frustration in chicago - https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

After reading that I find that the situation in Chicago is even worse than I thought. Gang members shooting at cops with AK47's? Those weapons aren't legal to own.

"Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) demanded that Lightfoot develop a plan to stabilize Chicago’s neighborhoods for five days, calling his Southwest Side ward “a virtual war zone” where gang members armed with AK-47’s were threatening to shoot black people."

Lopez is 100% full of crap.

Who are these "gang members" threatening African Americans? Lopez's district is almost 3/4 Hispanic and less than 1/4 African American. So are Hispanic gang members threatening the African Americans? Are there white supremicists operating in the 15th Ward? Why, exactly, are the African Americans in Lopez's ward being threatened?

Second, AK-47s? Really?
C'mon, Ray...I don't think so. Handguns, I can see. But AK-47s? No way.

Urban Democrats are historically illiterate when it comes to guns:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

ramblinman wrote:

19delta wrote:

OSUBucks wrote:

tps wrote:frustration in chicago - https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

After reading that I find that the situation in Chicago is even worse than I thought. Gang members shooting at cops with AK47's? Those weapons aren't legal to own.

"Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) demanded that Lightfoot develop a plan to stabilize Chicago’s neighborhoods for five days, calling his Southwest Side ward “a virtual war zone” where gang members armed with AK-47’s were threatening to shoot black people."

Lopez is 100% full of crap.

Who are these "gang members" threatening African Americans? Lopez's district is almost 3/4 Hispanic and less than 1/4 African American. So are Hispanic gang members threatening the African Americans? Are there white supremicists operating in the 15th Ward? Why, exactly, are the African Americans in Lopez's ward being threatened?

Second, AK-47s? Really?
C'mon, Ray...I don't think so. Handguns, I can see. But AK-47s? No way.

Urban Democrats are historically illiterate when it comes to guns:

Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

19delta wrote:

OSUBucks wrote:

tps wrote:frustration in chicago - https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/what-are-we-going-have-left-our-community-aldermen-react-panic-sorrow-unrest

After reading that I find that the situation in Chicago is even worse than I thought. Gang members shooting at cops with AK47's? Those weapons aren't legal to own.

"Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) demanded that Lightfoot develop a plan to stabilize Chicago’s neighborhoods for five days, calling his Southwest Side ward “a virtual war zone” where gang members armed with AK-47’s were threatening to shoot black people."

Lopez is 100% full of crap.

Who are these "gang members" threatening African Americans? Lopez's district is almost 3/4 Hispanic and less than 1/4 African American. So are Hispanic gang members threatening the African Americans? Are there white supremicists operating in the 15th Ward? Why, exactly, are the African Americans in Lopez's ward being threatened?

Second, AK-47s? Really?
C'mon, Ray...I don't think so. Handguns, I can see. But AK-47s? No way.

Urban Democrats are historically illiterate when it comes to guns:

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

ramblinman wrote:

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

There were reports of latino gangbangers in Cicero confronting looters and protecting storefronts.  Also reports of people on top of buildings with automatic weapons.

Of course the mayor said he was full of crap.  She said that because he called her out in public for police inaction relative to the looting.  She is full of crap for saying he is full of crap.

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

19delta wrote:

ramblinman wrote:

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

There were reports of latino gangbangers in Cicero confronting looters and protecting storefronts.  Also reports of people on top of buildings with automatic weapons.

Of course the mayor said he was full of crap.  She said that because he called her out in public for police inaction relative to the looting.  She is full of crap for saying he is full of crap.

Do you people even listen to yourselves?

Teetime wrote:

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

I don't think anyone....me, you, Lightfoot, Lopez, anyone at all, should make it a practice to name a firearm that someone is using unless they know for a fact which one it is.

When that thing (I'm afraid to say what it is) comes out of the barrel (if that is the right part of the gun that the projectile comes from) and rips through an innocent eight year old playing in her yard, the most important facts are that I properly name the weapon, the projectile, and the barrel (again, if that is the correct name), not the dead little girl on her lawn. I have learned over the years not to pretend that I know something about guns that I don't know. No gun owner will listen to a word I say about guns if I'm too ignorant to know all the names, parts, and attachments (and I use that term in the colloquial sense, I'm sure no gun owner calls something they attach to their gun an attachment).

ramblinman wrote:

19delta wrote:

ramblinman wrote:

19delta wrote:

Teetime wrote:

ramblinman wrote:Silly George Lopez and silly Dems.  Bunch of illiterate politicians don't know the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15.  AK-47, my ass!  He's "100 full of crap!"  AR-15?  Nomenclature is everything.

You bettcha. If you get a single thing wrong when discussing weapons you get crushed by the 2nd Amendment crowd. How dare you not know what all the weapons are and their exact names...you have no business talking about them unless you do.

Are you serious?

Look...I'm not expecting Lopez to be a firearms expert, but do YOU really think that there are gang members armed with high-powered semiautomatic rifles (I'll even give Lopez the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't talking about automatic weapons) terrorizing the African American residents of the 15th Ward?

Do you believe that to be true?

Mayor Lightfoot sure didn't. She said he was full of crap.

There were reports of latino gangbangers in Cicero confronting looters and protecting storefronts.  Also reports of people on top of buildings with automatic weapons.

Of course the mayor said he was full of crap.  She said that because he called her out in public for police inaction relative to the looting.  She is full of crap for saying he is full of crap.

Do you people even listen to yourselves?

Go to 1:23 of the Cicero video to see the guys with the weapons on a rooftop.

“Three weeks ago, House Democrats passed the HEROES Act. It was a $3 trillion bailout for bloated, Democrat-run big cities. They called it the ‘HEROES Act,’ claiming it was intended to prevent police officers, fire fighters and nurses from losing their jobs due to urban budget cuts. Fast forward three weeks and a big part of the Democrat Party is now demanding that we abolish police departments. For many progressives it seems cops went from being heroes to zeroes in three weeks.”