WHAT DO YOU WAGER THAT THE CARJACKER WAS BLACK?
‘I Won’t Be Silent”: Democrat Official Who Vowed to Dismantle Minneapolis Police Department Wants Justice for Carjacking
An anti-police Democrat party official in Minnesota wants tougher crime laws after being violently attacked during a carjacking in Minneapolis.
Shivanthi Sathanandan holds the position of second vice chairwoman for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), the New York Post reported Thursday.
She explained in a social media post on Wednesday what transpired during the incident:
“Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me,” she wrote, noting she suffered a broken leg, deep lacerations on her head, bruises, and cuts.
The men knew what they were doing, she continued, and there was no doubt in her mind they had done the same thing to other victims:
I’m now part of the statistics. I wasn’t silent when I fought these men to save my life and my babies, and I won’t be silent now. We need to get illegal guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM.
PERIOD.
Look at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
These criminals will not win. We need to take back our city. And this will not be the last you hear from me about this.
Sathanandan then thanked police officers and others for coming to help.
Law enforcement confirmed the carjacking that happened in the Folwell area but have yet to arrest any suspects in the case.
According to the Post, Sathanandan said in a social media post three years ago that she and fellow activists were “going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department” because it had failed citizens.
Her comments came after the death of George Floyd:
Social media users were quick to comment on Sathanadan’s most recent post, one person writing, “This is what happens when you dismantle a police department. Sorry you went through this.”
“You wanted a lawless city though,” another user replied, while someone else said, “Votes have consequences. Nice job!”
In June 2020, members of the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a pledge seeking to replace its police department with a “community-led public safety system,” Breitbart News reported at the time.
The outlet noted it was part of a campaign headed by Black Lives Matter activists and leftist Democrats to defund police after violent protests and riots erupted in the wake of Floyd’s death.
BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD
Rapper Charged with Murder After Allegedly Making a Music Video Bragging About the Crime
Nevada rapper Kenjuan McDaniel was arrested on a murder charge after La Vegas police alleged he “confessed to the murder in his (song) lyrics.”
The 25-year-old accused was taken into police custody August 29. He has been held on one charge of open murder with a deadly weapon, a news release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
Bail was set Thursday at $1 million with electronic monitoring, according to court records.
The victim, identified by several outlets as Randall Wallace, 32, was found shot to death in an apartment complex in 2021. Police claimed the victim had been in an argument with three suspects who were unidentified at that point.
“Brought it with that fire, hear that ‘ah’, see your body twitching,” raps McDaniel, which according to the Review-Journal, matched up with Wallace twitching before he died, police alleged.
Another lyric, reported by 8 News Now, features McDaniel rapping: “Parked the car, doubled back on feet, the smartest way to slide,” which police also aligned with the killing.
In the song McDaniel also allegedly refers to a nickname which 8 News Now reported was Wallace’s, according to police.
McDaniel is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Sept. 14.
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Brooklyn parking dispute leads to double shooting at Home Depot
A dispute over a parking spot in the central Brooklyn Home Depot erupted in gunfire, leaving a woman shot in the head and her boyfriend badly wounded, according to witnesses and police.
The shooting took place in the parking lot of the hardware store’s Bedford-Stuyvesant location shortly after noon Saturday, according to the NYPD.
“The guy pulls on the side of them, he starts shooting at them,” Stacee Glenn, 40, said. Glenn said the male victim shouted, “I gave him the parking spot!”
The couple –– believed to be in their mid-20s –– raced out of the parking lot in their white Hyndai Sonata after the shooting, stopping several blocks away at the intersection of Nostrand and Myrtle Aves. to call for help.
The woman was slumped over and nonresponsive.
“He stopped and said ‘my girlfriend and I had been shot’,” Glenn said. “I guess he was trying to bring her to the hospital.”
Yadelyn Pena, 14, told the Daily News she was outside the Duane Reade on Nostrand and Myrtle when the car came to a stop.
“I guess he realized he was too late, so he jumped outside the car and called for help,” she said, adding that the man had wounds to his leg and his back.
“I was like, what’s the matter? What’s wrong? And he was like, ‘my girlfriend, look,’” Pena said.
“And I look in the car and there’s blood dripping from her head.” she added. “I saw her.”
“The guy in the parking lot – he wanted my parking spot,” Pena recalled the man saying. “I gave it to him and he started shooting at us!”
Three bullet holes could be seen in the Hyundai’s driver’s side door, which was facing the wrong direction on Nostrand Ave. Outside the front passenger door, a brown paper Home Depot bag lay stained with blood.
Pena said she dialed 911 immediately.
“The cops took like ten minutes to come. It looked like she was dead.”
“I saw her fingers moving,” the teenager added. “I’m hoping she’s okay.”
Pena’s mother, 38-year-old Anlly Burgos, said she tried to comfort the woman until help arrived.
“I held her hand telling her she was going to be okay,” she said. “Then the police came and they told everybody to back up.”
“She couldn’t talk,” Burgos said of the victim. “The only time she talked was to tell the police her name and then after that she was dead silent.”
The frantic boyfriend feared the worst.
“Her boyfriend was really really distressed. Sad. Calling for help,” she added. “He was saying, ‘I got shot in my back and my leg but just make sure she’s okay.'”
Cops said both victims were transported to nearby Kings County Hospital, where the woman was listed in critical condition.
At Least 14 Shot Friday into Saturday Night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
At least 14 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 10:40 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex “in the 8000 block of South Hermitage Avenue.” A 44-year-old man was shot in the back and found in a hallway. He was transported to a hospital, where he died.
Police responded to calls of shooting Saturday around 3 a.m. and found a man, age unknown, with a gunshot wound to his head lying in an alley “in the 8000 block of South Union Avenue.” The man died at the scene.
Around 8:40 a.m. Saturday a 30-year-old was shot while inside “a home in the 12000 blk. of S. Prairie.” He was in the home with a 31-year-old woman and she was also shot. The man died and the woman is in critical condition.
Just over an hour later, a 25-year-old man was shot in a drive-by shooting “in the 5000 block of West 45th Street.” He was transported to a hospital where he died.
A database maintained by the Sun-Times shows 415 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through August 9, 2023.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
