{"id":55780,"date":"2020-06-08T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55780"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:45:07","slug":"55780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55780","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Control advocates now patrolling neighborhoods while armed<\/a><\/p>\n

My goodness it doesn\u2019t get any more mind boggling and hilarious than this. We\u2019ve all heard of Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison and his spearheading of the dismantling of the Minneapolis PD. Well, he is helping take matters into his own hands (don\u2019t mind the goofy \u201cwhite supremacist\u201c BS spin, but whatever):<\/p>\n

Citizen patrols organize across Minneapolis as confidence in the police force plummets<\/a><\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 It’s approaching 2 a.m., and City Council member Jeremiah Ellison is patrolling his neighborhood in a black sedan when the smell of smoke wafts through the open driver’s side window.<\/p>\n

Several black-owned businesses had been destroyed in this area \u2014 considered the heart of the city\u2019s black community \u2014 in recent fires that investigators have deemed \u201csuspicious.\u201d Neighbors suspect right-wing militias, and social media has been abuzz with purported \u2014 but unverified \u2014 sightings of masked white men in pickup trucks holding semiautomatic assault rifles.<\/p>\n

The rumors have only fueled the unease that has spread through this community since the death of George Floyd, who lost consciousness under the knee of a police officer on Memorial Day. A video of Floyd\u2019s gasps for air triggered massive protests and violent riots that started in this Midwestern city before spreading throughout the country.<\/p>\n

Now Ellison \u2014 the son of former congressman Keith Ellison \u2014 is on patrol, hoping to catch the next fire before it destroys another business owner\u2019s livelihood. He\u2019s also ready to contend with danger of the more human sort, if needed.<\/p>\n

As the car fills with the acrid scent of burning chemicals, Ellison tells his friend in the driver\u2019s seat to pull over. Before they come to a stop, Ellison, 30, flings open the door and jumps out with a pistol in one hand and a small fire extinguisher in the other.<\/u><\/strong><\/span> He walks briskly down the street, scanning the block for the origin of the fumes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was excited to fight over the budget. I don\u2019t think anybody could have pictured this,\u201d Ellison later said, noting that even as a city official, he can\u2019t control how the police respond to the fires and other threats. \u201cThis was something I could do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, no problem there, we support that (except he seems ready to fire when no immediate threat to life or property is present), but as we\u2019ve seen over and over again over the past few weeks, these are the SAME PEOPLE that support gun control when it suites their needs:<\/p>\n

YET ANOTHER do as I say, not as I do politician. Either way, as each day goes by it seems, more and more nails are put into the coffin of gun control and the activist groups that push for it (and that\u2019s a good thing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun Control advocates now patrolling neighborhoods while armed My goodness it doesn\u2019t get any more mind boggling and hilarious than this. We\u2019ve all heard of Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison and his spearheading of the dismantling of the Minneapolis PD. Well, he is helping take matters into his own hands (don\u2019t mind the goofy … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55781,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions\/55781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}