Police Departments
Women and Minorities are a politically protected class in Minnesota. This legal and social status reveals itself in education, employment, and social situations.
Three things we don’t talk about publicly in Minnesota.
- Stereotypical behaviors of Women and Minorities
- The agency and histrionics of Women and Minorities
- The State Abusing its Power
While the dead bodies from gang violence (aka’ community policing) in the Twin Cities are easy to ignore for the majority of Minnesotans, those killed by the State have become more difficult.
Ignoring histrionics, stereotypical behavior and abuse of state power by a large majority of the politically protected classes is going to get messy:
- A Latino man shoots a freshly baked Black man who matches the description of a violent felon.
- A woman runs up to a MPD Squad Car in the middle of the night.
- A Muslim shot a White Woman.
- A Black man with rectal fentanyl and meth (hooping), cries for his mama and bashes his head bloody against a car window.
- A Black man grieves for his sister.
- An MMA fighter and MPFD Firefighter screaming at police aren’t a threat.
- A Somali man in a police shootout at a Holiday Station.
- A woman grabbed her gun while shouting “Tazer! Tazer! Tazer!”
Kim Potter, was undoubtedly prejudiced by exposure to Minnesota’s Marxist Feminist Domestic Violence training. She was a 26 year veteran of enforcing a model that views Men as abusers of women and women solely as victims.
She’s been convicted of the manslaughter of a man with an outstanding order for protection. A curious coincidence.
Many people have defended it as an honest mistake.
My aim with this article isn’t to kick Kim Potter when she’s down, but to point out some of the things Minnesotans won’t talk about regarding this trial.
Long standing disparities in outcome, victim sanctity taboos, and a genuine love for the most beautiful State in the union keep us from telling truths.
I’m going to put aside the air fresheners, the expired tabs, driving a car not registered to him with no insurance and no license, the order for protection and the warrant – for a moment.
I’m going to talk about marjiuana use among young adults. Baby boomers seem to treat marjijuana use as if the pot around today is similar to the pot of their youth.
It’s not.
I’m also going to talk about Minnesota’s draconian laws to prevent drunk and impaired driving. These laws include having open bottles or controlled substances within the volume of the vehicle. These laws are very strict, ruin lives, and make Philando Castile, George Floyd, and Daunte Wright’s stops all potential felonies according to the police.
No one was allowed to talk about that without hearing the inevitable kneejerk, histrionic reaction, “Does that mean they should be killed?”
This type of taboo enforcement keeps us from talking about real issues, realistically.
While I personally don’t care if a person smokes weed, during my time serving the public in Minneapolis, I’ve become more and more aware of some patterns.
Many poor and Black users in MN often make no significant effort to conceal their use or possession.
Some seem to use the pungent smell as a means of demonstrating their indifference to authority.
Minnesota Police are not consistent with their enforcement of the state’s strict marijuana laws in motor vehicles.
The smell of marijuana was a factor in the police handling of the deadly traffic stop of Philando Castile and Daunte’ Wright. (Vox tells us any suggestion George Floyd used drugs is a racist trope.)
I’ve smoked pot. I like smoking pot. I don’t think pot should be illegal. You certainly shouldn’t be killed for it. I also think it’s stupid that we pretend you can work or safely drive a car while high.
People act like pot isn’t a big deal. I’ve been around enough people who are clearly baked, who can’t fill out a form, speak coherently, or perform basic technical functions.
Commonplace pot smoking among 16-24 year olds has become a problem. A problem we don’t talk about.
These young people are losing productive years when they should be gaining skills and valuable experiences.
Turning a blind eye (and nose) to this behavior is so commonplace in poor whites and Blacks, we’re deluding ourselves if we believe it’s not a problem.
You can’t waste years of your life wandering around in a haze, making stupid decisions, and expect to get out of poverty.
I was recently called out on twitter by a minister for suggesting Alayna Albrecht-Payton is a pothead. It’s not MN Nice to tell the truth about women or BIPOC. She is both.
The whole point of this series is to say things that don’t get said, and ask questions that don’t get asked.
What Color is Sprite?
Alana wasn’t on trial and frankly, I don’t care whether there is or isn’t alcohol or codeine cough syrup in that bottle. (a common drink) It was Sunday afternoon and she’s a grown woman, she can drink whatever she wants to drink.
However, police are on instant alert when they see that, because it’s a potential felony in the State of Minnesota.
You can watch Alayna Albrecht-Payton’s testimony here. I feel horrible for her. She’s young, excited, whole life ahead of her. She and her new boyfriend with a nice car, chillin’ on a Sunday in MN.
That ended with a BIPOC trainee cop wanting to increase his opportunities to get practice interacting with the public while still in training. Don’t forget, there are two BIPOC rookie cops awaiting trial as accessories to second degree murder for a traffic stop.
I feel badly for her, but that doesn’t mean she and Daunte Wright were not potheads. The coroner, the State’s own witness, testified Mr. Wright had extremely high levels of THC in his system.
Look at her eyes, her inflection, her posture, her demeanor, and listen to her damn testimony. If you can’t see that she’s likely a pothead, you might have the Minnesota Nice virus. It’s highly contagious.
EG: How would you like me to address you Ms Payton?
Yes, whatever is easiest for you to pronounce.
EG: Do you remember when Mr. Wright was getting out of the car, that he was hesitant?
When he was getting out of the car? No.
EG: Do you remember saying to him “Just do it, just go?” When the officers asked him to get out of the car?
No, I do not remember.
EG: Have you looked at the video of this incident?
Not the full one, no.
EG: Have you looked at the video of the one where Officer Luckey was telling him to get out and he was asking “Why?” Did you see that one?
No.
EG: Do you see him going back into the car?
That’s the video.
EG: What video did you look at?
Just the one they had the one on the news and Youtube The one where he was already out of the car already being handcuffed.
EG: You didn’t see him going back into the car?
That’s the video.
EG: You testified that you had known Mr. Wright for how long?
About two or three weeks.
EG: When did you first start dating him?
We were never really official, because we didn’t get the chance to.
EG: He stayed at your house the night before?
Yeah, Just a couple of nights but he did stay with me.
EG: Did you meet him on social media?
Yes.
EG: When did you first meet him, personally?
I don’t remember the exact date but probably the beginning, not the beginning but the end of March. In that pocket for two to three weeks.
EG: Do you remember what you did the first time you met him?
Yes.
EG: What did you do?
We hung out.
EG: What do you mean by hung out?
State: OBJECTION Sidebar
Objection denied
Granted In Part and Denied in Part
EG: He stayed at your house the evening before April 11th? Do you remember what time you woke up?
I believe we woke up early, like around 10.
EG: Did Daunte wake up at that time also?
I believe so, yeah. If one of us was up the other was also up.
EG: Do you know whether or not Daunte had smoked marijuana that morning?
Yes.
EG: And did he?
Yes.
EG: Was that right after he got up?
I’m not too sure but, I believe so.
EG: Can I have a moment your honor to make sure I got your mandate correct?
Sidebar
EG: Smoking the marijuana was that in your home?
Yes.
EG: Were you smoking too?
Yes.
EG: I might be wrong about this but he arrived at his mother’s house at about 11, if he got up at approximately 10 in the morning, you and him smoked some marjiuana before he went off to his mothers, correct.
I wasn’t sure about the 10 it was just an estimate but yes.
EG: On the way out the way out there did you smoke any marijuana in his automobile?
No. On the way to his mother’s house, but not in the car. It was in my house on the way to his mother’s house but not in the car.
EG: Was it one joint or two joints?
One. We smoked it together.
EG: Who supplied it, you or him?
Objection, irrelevant. Judge Sustained.
EG: After smoking the marijuana had it affected you at all?
No, your honor. (Laughs) umm sorry, I didn’t mean to say that.
EG: You had observed Mr. Wright for a week or two before this, could you tell whether the marijuana he had smoked affected him?
It did not.
EG: You could tell that?
Yes.
You might listen to that testimony and say, she’s not a pothead.
You may also think the smell of marijuana and discolored liquid in an open container in a car, during an arrest, doesn’t make MN police heightened for felony alert.
Both of those positions make you either naive and/or willfully ignorant. It doesn’t make anybody a bad person, my suggestion is that we stop ignoring difficult realities.
To anyone who sees “racist overtones” to this article, I’d like to clarify, there’s no evidence Daunte Wright was smoking Hmong Superdope.
Hmong Superdope has no seeds. Those people are fucking artists.
