content: I hear gunshots and choppers overhead. I’ve lived in Minneapolis my whole life. I went to school in the same neighborhood they annihilated. I live just a mile down the road.  It’s all up in smoke now because my mayor decided to be a dickless coward. Then there’s rioting all over the city, as I’m writing this, there’s gunshots coming from across the river.  I grew up in this town and I went to public schools my whole life. We have these odd Orwellian posters up on the walls about how we’re all friends and how equal everyone is. But for some reason it just always seemed to be the black kids disrupting class. The black kids who were aggressive to me.  But we’re all equal they’d say.  The only people I’ve ever been physically threatened by were black. The only people who have physically assaulted me are black.  We had homeless shanty towns pop up for the first time in my life here this last year. There was a big to do about demanding shelter for these people. These people could have lived in many of our homeless shelters, but they can’t do drugs there. So they camp out and harass the other poor people they live around (city council doesn’t give a shit about the residents. They’re just renters). No one arrests them and says “you’re doing drugs, your harassing people, ruining business and these peoples lives”. They bring them food and ports potties. Find them a place to go for the winter so they don’t all die. They’re back again this year. We tell our police officers every day to deal with these people. The abusers, the addicts, the evil.  Every day to go into this community that hates them. I saw a live leak video of a cop in the other city of St. Paul who got rear ended at a stop sign. He calmly gets out to be confronted by a man running at him with a knife. Apparently it was in this mans best interest to kill the police offer rather than to go to jail for whatever war rent he had on him. The cop amazingly tries to run, tell him to drop the knife several times and eventually shoots and kills him. This police officers job went from causal drive to fighting for his life in the blink of an eye.  And we ask these people to go into this everyday and we tell them we have their back. What kind of mentality does that breed in people who have to do that?   Do I like that George Floyd died the way he did? No. That may seem surprising to some of you why I’m posting here but no, I’m not happy George Floyd died the way he did. Does it surprise me? No. This is going to happen and it will always happen the more and more we enable people to live worse and worse lives.  My city’s response to this anarchy is telling. I have personally gone out to the first two days of these protests. I left after they weren’t protests anymore. They are planned, supplied, and executed by people trying to politically escalate. They have been trying to push the envelope as far as possible and what started with a march (that I was a part of) has now escalated to a metropolitan wide riot. People are dying. Lives are being ruined. If after day one they said were sending in all we have, we’re not gonna tolerate this violence, end it, we wouldn’t be here. There is some perverse version of white guilt happening in the administration of my city and people are dying because of it.  When I was a child, my mother would go to neighborhood meetings every week to try to make my community a better place. I remember loving making crafts at the seasonal celebrations at the park building or being in the parade up and down the main street.  I can’t live here now. I’ve decided this. I’ve had a feeling for a while I wanted something else but this has sealed it. My entire life has been living in the liberal progressive experiment. And if this is where it leads to, count me out.  I’m a little tilted right now from all this but AMA if you want. I’ve seen some shit first hand.