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teddy241 posted...

Minnesota is a liberal state. **** the po po so no surprise we threw the book at the white cops

MN is a moderate state, but given that the right is increasingly...whatever the heck they are our moderateness now falls on the left side of the aisle. Minneapolis is liberal, certainly, but the state as a whole is pretty purple.

Most people in the state outside Minneapolis value the tough things the police are doing for us - I know a lot of great cops around here - but we're also more than willing to throw the book at any of them who, you know, kill people. And we always need to address the power-tripping and/or racist elements that get drawn to enforcement positions: we (like most) certainly have a ways to go there. And we could certainly have better integrated housing etc/etc...we're worse than other places at that.

I knew Chauvin would be convicted the moment I heard what happened there. It's not just white cops, though: Mohamed Noor was a black Somali-American Minneapolis cop who killed an Australian white lady given an itchy trigger finger. He was convicted.

As for why we have so many newsworthy police-involved killings...good question. It's still statistically small so here's hoping random chance, but those had better be the end of it for a long time.