MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - In the dead of the cold, late night on Tuesday, a young Somali man was shot in the hip. Someone took him to the local trauma center, left him there, and drove off.
The man told police at his bedside that he didn’t know who shot him, who took him to the hospital, or why he was targeted. “I’m intoxicated,” he told cops, while doctors tended his wound, before insisting he didn't know anything else about what happened.
For the attending police officers, it was a frustrating, albeit familiar, response from a member of the Somali community, whose support in November sent one of their own, Rep. Ilhan Omar, to Congress. While Omar has spoken out frequently and forcefully on a range of issues - some that seem little connected to her district - most members of the Somali community she represents remain far more insular.
The national epidemic of shootings involving young African-American men in America's cities certainly isn't unique to Minneapolis. But some officers here believe issues of cultural assimilation involving the Somali immigrant community, and a struggle on both sides to better communicate law enforcement's mandate to protect and serve, makes it a particularly imposing challenge. One that politicians like Omar, they say, could do much more to effectively address.
Minnesota is now home to one the largest Somali communities in the global diaspora, with an estimated 100,000 living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the center of the Somali community – and is fondly nicknamed “Little Mogadishu” – for its array of Somali-centered organizations, businesses, and mosques.
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Those POS should all go back to Somalia where they belong. They destroyed their country now they want to destroy ours. They are animals that will never learn to behave like civilized human beings.
ReplyDeleteThank Obama for bringing those bums here . They need to be sent back
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: That State has been ruined by progressive, Marxist religious organizations who made millions from the federal government to resettle Somalians there. They did not care about the impact on locals, it was primarily about money. They introduced a completely foreign culture, many of whom have no idea what a toilet is used for, and crime rates have gone through the roof. This is a violent, ignorant, unskilled, uneducated mob who have never made any positive contributions to society. Greed and a political and/or profit motive has destroyed my country. Look at the southern border. The marxists want open borders. Have they considered the consequences? Juarez, Mexico, is one of the most violent, crime ridden cities on the planet. Democrats want a free flow of that behavior into our country. Imagine what El Paso will be like if that is allowed. Beheadings and bodies in the streets will be the unintended consequences of their policies.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure grateful our blessed King Barack doesn't live in that part of town.
ReplyDeleteThis is another Muslim community that the OBAMA administration put in place. OBAMA HELPED all his Muslim buddies find homes to make Muslim communities all across the country. You know how you can find them??
ReplyDeleteFROM ALL THE BS PROBLEMS POLICE HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY.
Then you have any African American who love to get dressed up , chant, and dance are now Muslim.