And one last tidbit, honestly this is not a violent city. We have crime, yes and other cities do. We also embrance other differences quite easily...This is just such a different moment and the people are standing up for their rights.
The looters are really being triggered by many different things. Honestly, I feel for them. Not their recent actions, those are wrong, but why they would take these actions.
Bigger picture my friends.
I think by the time your read this you will know there is a CNN Latino African American reporter who has been arrested in Minneapolis being arrested for doing his job. Meanwhile, another CNN reporter, this one Caucasian, doing the exact same job was not arrested.
https://www.jeannemayell.com/community/u-s-politics/dream-about-a-reporter/#post-6910
In March of 2018, I had a dream about a reporter being attacked as he was doing his job. Attacked for doing his job. Although his name was Evan Perez and not Omar Jimenez (arrested journal) the scene was exactly as what I saw on TV this AM. I don't know if this count as a hit or not, but one thing is for certain, the 1st Amendment has been attacked today!!!
In 2017-2018 (around then), I mentioned to Jeanne in a conversation the erosion of democracy in the US and everywhere around the world.
I'm trying to find a forum about the riots in MInnesota. The police greatly compounded their public relations problem when the national guard was brought in. Now we're hearing about the completely arbitrary and unjustified arrest of news reporters who were just exercising their right under the first amendment to report the news.
Now we have another issue to rally the masses against both the police and the national guard. We have the seeds for a national revolution. Remember it was tyranny that led to past national revolutions against the powers that be in countries all over the world. What's happening in Minnesota is very much a form of tyranny. You cannot have the police, the national guard, or any other type of law enforcement acting in a very arbitrary and unjust way.
@northern_lights I am sending you and al the people in Minneapolis huge hugs, love, light, from the very bottom of my heart. I pray a just end to all of this will happen very soon.
Using te Ryder Waite desk, I draw a card for you and Minneapolis. The As of Cup came up. This is a new beginning and Angels and Archangels are there looking out for you. In getting clarrifiyers, I saw the importance to look at everything, the whole picture and make sure we are not missing pieces to the puzzles (4 cups). I'm pretty sure, if we go by the news, everything is transparent! So I'm not certain what this could be referring to. This cycle is being brought to a difficult end, very difficult one, (10 swords)However the Lovers is telling me some kind of peace will be reached.
I'm wondering if the journalist being arrested is a catalyst in this whole situation...
But know the World is watching and love is being sent your way.
As you wake up to see or read about the wreckage of my city - if there had been justice for Eric, for Michael, for Philandro for all the illegal murders at the hands of police It would not be this way. This is what years of pain, powerlessness and oppression looks like acted out. There are consequences to injustice. Where are the leaders who will CHARGE THESE MURDEROUS COPS? For days there has been constant helicopter presence, sirens, fires, the sounds of gunfire or fireworks. Online in my neighborhood groups there is a lot of understanding and compassion for the wreckage of the last few days- no one condones and people are afraid- there is constant misinformation being spread online and later fact checked/updated but, this morning posts looking to help clean-up are common. Everyday when I wake up along with the sirens is the birdsong. May all beings know gods love, may they be safe.
First, the fact that a black reporter from the Cheeto's least favorite news channel was arrested by MPD while other news crews were left alone is NOT an accident or misunderstanding. Secondly, for context, the police chief of Minneapolis is a black man who was installed as chief after his predecessor resigned following high-profile police violence cases (Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, Justine Damond). He has tried to work toward racial justice in the department throughout his nearly 30 years on the force. The president of the police union is a racist, white supremacist (either fully or adjacent) who led a "cops for Trump" group when Cheeto came to town for a rally. He routinely protects officers who find themselves in trouble with the department. The man who murdered George Floyd, for example ... he has 18 misconduct violations on file. Officers on the MPD are now FROM Minneapolis; they are mostly from outside the city ... white guys ... patrolling neighborhoods where the people don't look like the officers, and there's a strong atmosphere of fear and anger on both sides. The MPD is more like the Brown Shirts than peacekeepers.
@deetoo I was thinking this morning that your mother-in-law might have a change of heart in a pandemic. The twins always have a playmate. They entertain each other very well: got the giggles the other day making up rhyming word pairs just for the fun of it. They have their moments too, of course. But if we separate them after a spat, it's only about 5 minutes before they want to know where the other one is. Friends for life, I hope.
@saibh I agreed with everything you are saying. I'm just reporting on a hit for a prediction and not debating the fact racism is obvious and rampant and shameful and hateful. Because it is all of that and more.
The journalist I mentioned was one of color, while white journalists doing the exact same thing were left alone, one was even told he was ok when asked who he was and what he was doing. The journalist arrested went out of his way to say what he was doing and that he was cooperating. Still he was arrested.
None the less. With all the racism this entails, I still consider this another attack on the 1st Amendment. The skin color was the thing that gave it a little push over the line to arrest this journalist.