My first series began and ended with differing attitudes and media responses to people killed by MPD. The last line of that series called for a fair trial for Mohamed Noor.
A fair trial would have given most citizens of Minneapolis first time exposure about MPD practices. Unfortunately, Judge Quaintance excluded Noor and Harrity’s Counter BLM training as somehow not relevant to shooting someone charging their car.
I’ve compared several people killed in Minneapolis to others, but never someone who’s done some killing.
While I’ve posted open letters to many people, from Justine Damond’s father, to Professor Stephen Hicks, the Director of the Mossad, even God. These letters surprisingly get responses.
This is the first series I’ll be dedicating entirely to one person.
This will be a series of open letters entirely dedicated to LaTrisha Vetaw, Chair of the Public Health & Safety (PHS) Committee.
We had a very pleasant twitter exchange following the tragic death of 5 beautiful Somali women from a now world famous Black Lives Matter Activist. I had a death in the family the following day and said I would follow up.
This series is that follow up. I began this series asking for Derrick Thompson to get a fair trial, despite the outrage he’s facing, that will continue to be a theme.
Dear Chair Vetaw,
This article may be difficult for many to follow but as the Chair of the Mpls Public Health & Safety (PHS) Committee you should be aware of much of the background.
The Scope of your committee:
“Public health and social service programs, including sustainability, civil rights, immigration, and community engagement. It also oversees public safety and emergency management.”
You should be able to track along with all of these references to people’s attitudes about people killed by Minneapolis (Jamar Clarke, Thurman Blevins, Philando Castile, Justine Damond, George Floyd. I’ve never compared two people who killed people in Minneapolis.) And comparing them to public attitudes toward famed Mpls Killers Derek Chauvin and Derrick Thompson.
Derek Chauvin | Derrick Thompson
In this series, I’ll share some of my public safety concerns, including two frozen heads found in my neighborhood, planning concerns for reparations, and I’ll explain why it’s so important for Representatives to finally answer the Mohamed Noor Jury Questions.
I attended the Noor trial and I have many questions. I would also love to learn the answers to the questions the Jury asked the City Council, which were delivered by Judge Quaintaince.
(Posted complete at the bottom of this article)
We must finally put all of this behind us so we can work with the Board of Estimate and Taxation to focus on bigger issues like Reparations and Climate Change.
I also have several Minneapolis Public Safety concerns, including two unsolved human heads found frozen in my neighborhood. Only one of the heads was actually severed, but two heads is a really sizable uptick.
Perhaps just as disturbing as the severed head on a park bench is the fact a sadistic murderer is still at large and no one seems to care.
More on the frozen heads later.
While I realize ensuring Derrick John Thompson gets a fair trial is in many ways out of your committee’s scope, there will be ongoing safety concerns in Minneapolis if he does not.
Despite all of the publicity, this trial will likely be held in Minneapolis if the Chauvin standard, set by the Attorney Generals’ Office, is followed.
I’m sure it will be important to Jeremiah Ellison, your colleague on the Committee and all involved members of the Ellison family, to see equal justice served.
This will be a long series affecting people in so many communities, it’s important to get some intersectional background.
Derek Chauvin
Derek Chauvin’s wife, Kellie, won the Mrs. Minnesota Contest. This makes Derek Chauvin Mr. Mrs. Minnesota. On Memorial Day, while working overtime to support his wife’s habits, Chauvin acted like a stereotypical cis, white, male, chauvinist, pig.
They’re called stereotypes for a reason. According to the New York Times and the MPD Use of Force Manual, Chauvin was acting the way the Minneapolis City Council had repeatedly authorized. The day after Floyd, you’ll remember the Mayor of Mpls issued a mask mandate by executive order and Minneapolis declared racism a city-wide health emergency.
Not to be outdone, the State of Minnesota declared the same thing the same week – masks cure racism.
Derrick John Thompson
Derrick John Thompson must have had a job of some sort because each time he was charged with a hit and run accident, he was found with 10’s of thousands of dollars while driving a rented Cadillac SUV.
Everyone in the Twin Cities knows that a Black man driving a luxury SUV has done so through his hard work and determination.
If we didn’t know that, it was confirmed when George Floyd, who “didn’t do no drugs” or “did too many drugs” depending on who you talked to, was behind the wheel of a borrowed Mercedes.
Derek Chauvin is the only cop in prison for murder in the History of Minnesota. Mohamed Noor was charged and convicted of murder but despite the fact Justine is dead, it was found on examination to be not murder.
The Minnesota Supreme Court threw out Noor’s conviction for depraved mind murder on a very curious argument that won the day. I maintain the elements of neither murder or manslaughter were actually met, but that may just be because I attended every day of the trial.
Four years and George Floyd later, the Minneapolis Public Health and Safety Commission still hasn’t answered the Jury’s questions that were submitted by Judge Kathryn Quaintance.
During the trial Quaintance couldn’t understand how MPD being trained for countering BLM ambushes could have been relevant.
Justine Damond wasn’t Black. Why would a white woman ambush a cop? White women aren’t Black Lives Matter activists, right? Minneapolis women certainly haven’t been throwing rocks, bottles and worse at Minneapolis Police officers, right? Certainly, not the white ones, right?
Nothing about it made sense. Black Cop / White Lady – Are Somalis Blacks now?
Speaking of not making sense. On April Fools Day 2019, many prominent Black Lives Matter Activists were brought together to hold police accountable for yet another wealthy white woman. It’s all so confusing.
Is BLM against police killing all white people or just pretty, rich white women, when there’s a likely city settlement on the line?
Due to Minnesota’s high preponderance of Blonde Mommunists, Justine, who was from Australia, could easily have been mistaken for a wine-loving Mommunist with a knife or a gun. A lunatic feminist with a knife had ambushed a cop in the neighborhood just weeks before.
This evidence was also deemed inadmissible.
The jury had no idea:
- Noor had special weapons and tactics training.
- All MPD officers had been briefed regarding ambushes in that specific area of the city.
- Of the Contents of Noor and Harrity’s BLM/AntiRA counter ambush training.
Rich kids from that neighborhood cut their teeth jumping cops and Nazis. A recent uptick in anti-police sentiment among the Blonde Mommunists.
Michelle Gross from Citizens Against Police Brutality is not blonde, she may or may not be a mom, but she’d also like to know what was in the MPD Counter Ambush training.
At least that’s what she told me when freaked out that Noor’s Union Representative showed up to the Courthouse without permission. He went to the media overflow room.
How dare a Black man on trial get union representation?
Remember, this was back before in the old days when we’d ever allowed cameras in courtrooms, but I was in the courtroom when it happened.
The courtroom lit up in panic and faces were filled with terror that someone, like Union Head Bob Kroll, might pull back the curtain on the Hennepin County Theater Production of the “The Death of Bookseller’s Daughter” aka MN v. MN.
Justine was dead, Mohamed Noor pulled the trigger. Was MN responsible or was it MN?
Well, the State of Minnesota did a really great job of convincing a jury it was the other guy. Admittedly, it had to exclude all of the exculpatory evidence to do it.
I’m sorry, what I meant to say was “Systemic Racism built into structures of power designed to oppress women and people of color” withheld the exculpatory evidence.
Same thing.
It’s the same systemic power structure Toshira was fighting against April 1st, 2019 at a rally calling for maximum penalties and accountability for Mohamed Noor. At the Kim Potter sentencing, Toshira was outraged that Mohamed Noor was sentenced more harshly than Potter, who was white.
Potter shot and killed Daunte’ Wright under moderate tensions during Derek Chauvin’s completely fair trial.
Following the death of five 17-20 year old Somali girls on Juneteenth Weekend, Toshira and a group of protestors were out in force at a historic Juneteenth protest. They were demanding police stop chasing criminals and demanding that Somali taxpayers pay reparations.
I would like to go on record as stating publicly, whatever the contents of the Minneapolis Plan for Reparations or the George Floyd Plan for Reparations, I absolutely support it. Whatever the Wine Momunists and Blacks in Minnesota are for, I am also in favor of it.
However, I can not in good conscience ask Somali Taxpayers to pay Reparations to State Representative John Thompson or Derrick John Thompson.
Might I suggest the Mpls Plan for Reparations be paid for by Minneapolis based Fortune 500 retailers who encouraged their Team Members to line up against a wall for privilege walks?
My very first article compared observed attitudes toward the Death of Philando Castile and that of Otto Warmbier. Officer Geronimo Janez, who shot Castile, was never charged with murder and not convicted of anything.
He was roughly the 500th officer in the State of Minnesota to not be charged, let alone not convicted.
So why won’t the Minneapolis City Council Safety Commission answer the Noor Jury’s questions? Maybe it’s the same reason they never changed the lethal neck restraint policy as they were court ordered to do following the David Smith settlement.
Like George Floyd, David Smith died in police custody and received a record settlement. Part of the settlement required MPD to change the neck restraint policy. Unlike George Floyd, David Smith had a knee on his actual neck.
It was demonstrated in court that Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s back. Speaking of George Floyd.
Did anyone ever wonder why Fire Station 17 Paramedics, where Genevieve Hanson works, weren’t deployed on Memorial Day? That station is 1700 feet from 38th and Chicago. Two minutes. Tops. 11 seconds as Derrick John Thompson drives.
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think multitasking and 911 go very well together in the same job description, unlike Mpls ls Safety Commissioner Cedric Alexander.
Perhaps it’s the same Climate Change, Systemic Whiteness, or Toxic Masculinity that kept Hanson, “A Minneapolis Firefighter, BITCH!” from calling 911 or even her own station?
Fighting with Tou Thao alongside MMA fighter Donald Williams was a better use of her oath sworn to the citizens of Minneapolis, including George Floyd.
And what’s going on with Morries Hall? Last I heard, he was in Minneapolis Police Custody. Has he been questioned about his involvement with the death of George Floyd?
Who rented the Mercedes SUV that George Floyd was clearly not driving while under the influence of anything?
These are all really interesting questions, but what I’d really like to focus on today is Reparations.
Reparations
Minneapolis is obviously the epicenter of white supremacy. It’s right in the middle of North America and it is therefore the center of all systemic whiteness. This isn’t even science, it’s basic geometry.
Minneapolis needs to be the center of the discussion on Reparations, that’s unquestionable, but the most important thing is that we first figure out what’s going on with Public Safety.
We can not know justice until we know peace.
There are a bunch of Sharia Scholars around the world and in the Twin Cities very interested in this upcoming trial.
It’s in the public interest to demand a very public trial.
Might I suggest we show them equal treatment under the law and put Derrick John Thompson on trial for an international audience?
It would give The Minnesota Justice System an opportunity to lead the way for how America’s cities handle equal Justice. If Derek Chauvin was entitled to a global audience, Derrick John Thompson is entitled to a global audience.
Cortez Rice would have wanted it that way. He’s the BLM activist sent to the workhouse for harassing the Kim Potter livestream into existence. Unfortunately, for Rice, much like State Representative John Thompson, some people have criticized their focus on activism over fathering responsibilities.
Rice’s son was killed at a CRT-powered High School in Richfield on the first day of Black History Month. Derrick John Thompson subtracted 5 of the most beautiful Goddesses to have ever walked the Earth, on Father’s Day Weekend.
That irony is not lost on anyone. But I’m rambling. Obviously, Reparations and Livestreaming the Derrick John Thompson trial for an international audience are out of scope for the Public Director of Public Safety
If there was one takeaway I could ask for as a citizen who attended the Noor Trial, it would be to answer the jury’s questions and certainly in scope for your committee.
Chuck Turchick has been emailing every week to ask someone in the council and safety committees to put it on an agenda for 4 years.
Why was there so much discussion of ambushes?
Why should a civilian have to be afraid of approaching a squad car?
Why were Noor and Harrity so reactive? What was their training?
The jurors were particularly concerned with Officer Harrity’s statement that his priority was making sure he did whatever he had to do to get home safe each night.
How dare Noor do whatever he needed to do when someone was charging a squad car?
Minnesota took something more from Justine than her life; They treated her as a child, rather than a woman who’d been misled about Public Safety in Minneapolis.
Please respond to the Jury’s Questions, Submitted by Judge Quaintance 4 years ago this Pride Month.
Complete Questions Submitted by Judge Quaintance
Hennepin County District Court Judge Kathryn Quaintance’s opening remarks in her sentencing of Mohamed Noor, June 7, 2019
“The primary concern of the jurors who heard the testimony in this case when I spoke with them after the verdict was: Will there be changes? Change is needed. Will some of these supervising officers be fired or disciplined? Is what we saw normal for the Minneapolis Police Department and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension? How will this be prevented from happening again? Why are officers more concerned about their personal safety than the safety of the public, especially in such a low-crime neighborhood? Why was there so much discussion of ambushes? Why should a civilian have to be afraid of approaching a squad car? What about the motto on the car door – ‘To serve with compassion’? Why were Noor and Harrity so reactive? What was their training? The jurors were particularly concerned with Officer Harrity’s statement that his priority was making sure he did whatever he had to do to get home safe each night. Jurors remarked that they thought the priority of the police was supposed to be to protect and serve the public. “No one who heard the testimony in this case or who works in the criminal justice system can question the difficulty of a patrol officer’s job or the dedication of the majority of the police and first responders, but here something went very much awry. The victim’s family and some of the witnesses, including some officers, have expressed concerns. A large amount of taxpayer dollars will go to Australia, but Minneapolis residents await the promised ‘transformation,’ and the questions of the jurors remain unanswered: What has changed? What will change so this does not happen again? How does the Department address officer safety without jeopardizing public safety? The jurors and the people of Minneapolis need and deserve answers.
“As Ms. Sweasy [one of the prosecuting attorneys] noted, the actions of officers are subject to a very high level of scrutiny. They have a lot of power. They are sworn to uphold the law. A high level of scrutiny is appropriate for those with the power to stop, arrest, detain, and the authority to use force, including TASERs and guns.”
