Saturday Night Owls: Native community has some ideas about what should replace Minneapolis police
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Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Delilah Friedler at Mother Jones writes—What Will Replace the Minneapolis Police? The City’s Native American Community Has Some Ideas: (Full disclosure: I was a member of AIM forSaturday Night Owls: Native community has some ideas about what should replace Minneapolis police
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Delilah Friedler at Mother Jones writes—What Will Replace the Minneapolis Police? The City’s Native American Community Has Some Ideas: (Full disclosure: I was a member of AIM for 16 years—MB.) Late one night at the end of May, as spray paint, fires, and looting reigned across Minneapolis, an Indigenous hip-hop artist named Tall Paul was roving the streets in a truck, looking for looters and arsonists. “It looked like that movie The Purge,” he says. “It was lawless.” Days before, Paul had joined the American Indian Movement Patrol, a group of Native Americans volunteering to maintain neighborhood safety and protect key buildings from destruction amid the rebellion. Paul and the other volunteers on shift were on their way to check on the offices of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe when they saw four white teenagers looting a nearby liquor store. They stopped their truck and three of the teens fled, while Paul’s group caught up with the fourth. Soon his buddies returned, and all were made to lie on the ground so they couldn’t run away, then give their names and wait for a parent to come pick them up. The teens had driven 90 miles from suburban Wisconsin to take advantage of the chaos. Read more