Minneapolis Du'ers Check -IN! Are you ok???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. My own neighborhood is unaffected, not close to the chaos.

I'm in south Minneapolis but west of I-35W, a couple of miles from the demonstrations and fires. But I'm very familiar with the location where George Lloyd was killed and where the demonstration is occurring now, and I'm sad and horrified. The MPD has been a racist cesspool for as long as I can remember, even though the city has always been pretty politically liberal and despite the efforts of generations of mayors and police chiefs. I don't know what the answer is. It might be police training; it might be that law enforcement tends to attract a certain number of authoritarian assholes. Obviously MPD isn't the only shitty police department so it's not unique to this city.