THE POLICE PROBLEM

America is such a racist fucking shithole. Literally 3rd world level of prejudice. If not trump it’s gonna be someone else in four years. Idiotic societies end up with totalitarianism.

That’s what you get for pretending the issue is solved instead of actually solving it.

MPD told the HCAO they do not intend to execute the warrant ‘for reasons of officer safety,'” the Minneapolis City Council said in a letter.

This... this boggles. This is almost Uvalde-level cowardice. What's the point of gifting military armored vehicles, gear, weapons, and training to police departments if they won't use them to execute an arrest warrant for attempted murder?

The command structure responsible needs to be regifted to other agencies that are bad at Google searches.

Call me crazy, but if you point a gun at a neighbor for any reason other than being attacked, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to have guns.

This is how you get people to engage in "self help." i.e. "I'm going to burn this motherfucker's house down with him inside."

Once again, armed white criminals have more rights than unarmed innocent POC in this country. The police likely support what this man did.

“He should not have been shot, but I will say this: We had no reason to suspect that he would shoot the neighbor from inside the house.”

The man who was being very aggressively territorial wouldn't shoot someone from inside his house?

Just tell them he was smoking marijuana. They don't want to deal with actual violent criminals. Those guys are scary.

WHAT THE FUCK

"We had no reason to suspect he would shoot the victim from inside his house."

Um. OK. Finish that thought?

"We just assumed, after repeated threats to do so, he would shoot him from outside his house, so you can see where our confusion arose. When he shot from inside, we didn't know that to do. Who would? Is it even illegal to shoot your neighbors, if you do it while inside your house? Truly a question for the ages. We had to consult attorneys about this. They said that while it's probably perfectly legal, we should probably take him in for questioning just in case.

But, again, given this completely novel new concept of shooting from -- and I want to repeat this so everyone sees why this was so confusing for us -- inside his house, we worried for the safety of our officers, because we have no training for something this radically different. Fortunately the poor fellow did walk outside, and we of course immediately arrested him. He was outside his house at that point, you see?"

Minneapolis City Council needs to take charge of this and clean house. Police aren't going to do it themselves, so the holder of the pursestrings is the one ultimately responsible.

Vengeance is what happens when the system doesn't provide justice.

I'm glad that, where I live, the racists find it difficult to get guns.

Pointing guns at people is an exceptionally great way to get fuckin' shot. I can think of no better way to all but guarantee you get shot than to point a gun at someone else.

According to CBS News, Sawchak was taken into custody early Monday morning. Police said Sawchak had been holed up in his house for several days, but just before 1:30 a.m., he surrendered peacefully

you can wait on reform or you can make them afraid of the people

From the article:

Minnesota Senator Omar Fateh also called out MPD, demanding an independent investigation.

What are the chances of that "independent investigation" going nowhere due to "external factors"?

Astounded by the mental gymnastics to say that after this person brandished a knife from inside his home saying he'll kill someone, the police couldn't imagine he'd shoot someone from the vantage point of his home. Incredible.