At $150 a Pop (So To Speak), Just How Much Money Did Minneapolis Waste By Doing This?

[TrollBuster9090]

Minneapolis police videoed slashing tires of protestors (they assume). Aren't all these people just going to bill the City of Minneapolis for the price of those tires? And, at about $150 per tire, Minneapolis will be out quite a lot of money. I'd really like to know whose dumb ass idea that was.

[Beakybird]

1. Very dastardly. What about an investigation? Lawsuit?

[MichMan]

2. There were posts here by DU members advocating that very same thing

in order to stop the outsider white supremacist groups from escaping after rioting

[Iggo]

3. Cops. (n/t)

[W_HAMILTON]

4. Why did they do that?

[Jamastiene]

10. To be assholes. n/t

[Phoenix61]

5. As someone once told me, you can accomplish

the same thing by cutting the valve stem.

[LiberalArkie]

6. A valve stem is cheap to replace, a whole tire not so cheap

[royable]

7. not to mention the environmental impact. n/t

[Phoenix61]

9. Yep, they were explaining to me why

slicing my exes tires would be a bad plan (felony charges) valve stems would do the same thing way cheaper.

[safeinOhio]

11. With a small cheap tool, you can remove the valve

in the valve stem and save replacing the stem that requires breaking down and removing valve stem.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, it would've taken just a couple of seconds more and save so many people ass aches

[MineralMan]

15. Not on most late model cars.

They have Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensors as part of the valve stem. The old tool that pulls out old-fashioned valve stems won't work, and neither will trying to cut the valve stem.

Besides, it costs between $75 and $150 to replace those TPMS sensor valve stems, so not much would have been saved.

What you can do, though, is use a simple tool to remove the valve core from any tire valve. It costs almost nothing, but it does take about ten seconds to unscrew it from the valve stem. I have a valve core tool on my keychain. I've been carrying it there since the 1960s. It's very attractive, I think.

[2naSalit]

8. Should come out of their pensions or

garnish their wages.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, this is my fix ... tap LEO pensions for the "bad apples" and watch a bunch of rotten fruit get

... put out of the nations PDs

[2naSalit]

14. One of the fastest ways to begin reform...

though many other changes need to tale place.

[intheflow]

16. I read it was the Sheriff's Dept & state cops.

Stupidest thing ever. They could have booted the cars without destroying private property and accomplished the same thing. Every one of these cops needs to be fired for vandalizing citizens cars.

[Amishman]

17. good luck getting them to pay, police immunity will block damages

the government and its minions don't like it when the people try to hold them responsible, so the courts are set up to keep us from even trying.