From NPR:
Neighbors In Minneapolis Unite To Protect Small Businesses During Unrest
Minneapolis neighborhood groups started taking up arms to defend their businesses when police all but disappeared from streets amid fiery protests last week.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Cesia Baires knocks on the three apartment doors above her restaurant and a neighboring taqueria just before curfew.
CESIA BAIRES: (Speaking Spanish).
FADEL: She tells the mother of two young kids living in one of the apartments that tonight would be like the night before – armed men on the roof to protect the building.
FADEL: As she speaks, men climb through a window behind her onto the building’s roof and begin to set up semi-automatic weapons. Others carry handguns. There are also bricks.
FADEL: Her pupuseria, Abi’s Cafe, is on Lake Street in Powder Horn Park, where some buildings have been burned to the ground or damaged in fiery protests. Last night was calm, but for days now some residents say their calls to police have largely gone unanswered if they could get through at all. And they’re now defending themselves. This group calls itself Security De La Lake. But some might think this is just vigilante justice. I ask her about that.
A minority community of small businesses owners in a major city beset by rioters and looters, totally abandoned by police, having to take up arms to defend their homes and livelihood.
Boy howdy, how history repeats itself.
Welcome to America where you can own guns and defend yourself from the agents of chaos.
Note how the socialist reporter describes self-defense as “vigilante justice”. Every day it is less clear why we continue to pay these people from our taxes.
Of course. Progtard “journos” are all about their idiotic narrative. God forbid they give an unbiased report of the news. RME.
Agreed. I’m not really thrilled with the concept of “public radio” in general – especially as they play commercials – but if it were presenting balances views I wouldn’t be bothering to do anything.
However, as NPR and their affiliates consistently present only one side of an issue – partisanship, plain and simple. Even the shows that nominally would be politically neutral, like the financial shows. And especially the “comedy” shows, which I stopped listening to four years ago or so.
Occasionally I will write my congressman and senators and ask them to defund NPR as it is not a fair and balanced use of taxpayer funding. Since all of them are Ds I never get a response and don’t expect any action; but at least it’s on the record.
Democrat mayors during #coronavirus:
-You can’t open your business
-You can’t go to church
-You can’t buy a gun
Democrat mayors during riots:
-Won’t protect your business
-Won’t protect your church
-And of course, still don’t want you to have a gun
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 3, 2020