(I heard #Minneapolis #Mayor of #lies, #police #killings, and #violent #gentrification, #JacobFrey, was also at the #pride parade. Remember, #Frey rhymes with "lie" not with "gay"— the handful of people who know his persecution of #houseless people and saw him told him off, but it's outrageous that any place #justice-minded people gather doesn't run off a #dangerous #grifter #politician like him. He's currently thwarting #RentControl while mercilessly punishing the victims of high #rent.)

by #SamanthaMichaels in #MotherJones:

"The city of Minneapolis is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit against the police officer who killed Amir Locke during a February 2022 raid that sparked protests."

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/06/minneapolis-is-quietly-trying-to-throw-out-the-lawsuit-against-the-cop-who-killed-amir-locke/

#AmirLocke #Minneapolis #Minnesota #MPD #police #PoliceReform #JacobFrey

by #SamanthaMichaels in #MotherJones:

"Attorneys for the city filed their motion to dismiss Locke’s family’s suit on Thursday, ahead of a pretrial conference next week—and just one day before the Justice Department released a blistering report about widespread racism and brutality by the Minneapolis Police Department. The Justice Department also announced that the city would negotiate a federal consent decree to reform policing. 'This work is foundational to the very health of our city,' Mayor Jacob Frey told reporters about the consent decree. 'We have the power here to effect lasting change, to effect generational change, and we embrace that.'"

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/06/minneapolis-is-quietly-trying-to-throw-out-the-lawsuit-against-the-cop-who-killed-amir-locke/

#AmirLocke #Minneapolis #Minnesota #MPD #police #PoliceReform #JacobFrey

But far from encouraging any of the unused city land for this, that sits year after year with developers not wanting to pick up for a mere $10K and build housing on, mayor #JacobFrey is completely opposed to truly affordable housing.

Over & over & over again in #JacobFrey's #Minneapolis

… again all this week and, to the people i've been closest to, next week:

https://social.coop/@mlncn/110102070567691467

Is everyone in this city really OK with violent force being used against people—for any reason, let alone to deny the human right to shelter—without even a court ruling?

#Minneapolis under #JacobFrey is a cruel, harmful, violent place.

Is everyone in this city really OK with violent force being used against people—for any reason, let alone to deny the human right to shelter—without even a court ruling?

#Minneapolis under #JacobFrey is a cruel, harmful, violent place.

Destroying the tents or self-made structures and bicycles and all other possessions of people who have no other shelter or transportation or much anything else is now a daily occurrence.

Human rights violations committed by #MPD, regulatory services, public works, by human beings paid by the people of #Minneapolis who go home to their own houses and families in some level of denial or sadistic satisfaction for following orders passed down from human rights violator in chief #JacobFrey

Please turn up before 9am if you can. If it is like last time, #MNDOT will be carrying water for mayor #JacobFrey and his local propertied oligarchs by initiating this, but the notoriously murderous #MPD will be providing much of the intimidation.

Candid photo of #JacobFrey, our feckless coward of a mayor.

And if you see #JacobFrey anywhere keep asking him why his approach to "ending homelessness" is – rather than free housing – genocidal assaults and dispersion leaving people in ever more dangerous and desperate situations.

Keep swatting away his platitudes and his attempts to make government violence sound benign and asking him why he orders human rights violations until he gets some security guard or cop to guide you away.

As a nerd i am ashamed people at #TwinCitiesCon allowed him photo ops.