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| Mpls. Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon |
| 2014-11-09 |
| [KSTP] 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign. The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm. He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation until 2016. If he violates terms of his probation during that time, he will serve the five years behind bars. The photo was taken a week before the November election while the mayor canvassed neighborhoods with a nonprofit group in a get-out-the-vote event. Hodges declined repeated requests for interviews, but her spokesperson told us the mayor enjoys meeting with many people who are organizing on the North side. The spokesperson also says the man in the photo is well regarded by the nonprofit that employs him and the mayor is simply "pointing at him" in the photo. Retired Minneapolis police officer Michael Quinn, who also managed the department's Internal Affairs Unit, says the photo is "disappointing because it puts coppers at risk." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 "She probably doesn't know that's a gang sign." She probably doesn't know there are gang signs, Al. (Or gangs, for that matter. The idiot probably thinks they're just boys' clubs.) |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-11-09 13:49 |
| #4 Hodges served on the Linden Hills Community Council from 2000 to 2005 Linden Hill is an exclusive area with a mix of old money and fine arts graduates. In other words, these folks haven't worked a day in their lives. So there she is slumming with the Black folks. She probably doesn't know that's a gang sign. She also doesn't know that, if it weren't for the cameras and police bodyguard, she would be shot by the rival gang. She would also be shot for wearing the wrong color clothes. She probably thinks the cops are those mean people who tell you to turn the TV down, not the guys who risk their lives every day to save from being killed, raped and torn apart by a bunch of psychopaths. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2014-11-09 12:55 |
| #3 Just keepin' it real in da hood.... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-11-09 10:06 |
| #2 the mayor enjoys meeting with many people who are organizing on the North side Driving by certain street corners in the evening? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-09 09:15 |
| #1 After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1991, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduating in 1998 with a master's degree in sociology. This from Wikipedia pretty much explains it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-09 01:06 |