NEW: Alan Ditty, a Minneapolis city employee blew the whistle of a potential raid on a protest site. He was outed by Kare 11 to the MPD. Ditty killed himself after he was identified & fired.
Here's the story of how the press & the city failed Alan Ditty: unicornriot.ninja/2021/kare11-ou…
Here's the story of how the press & the city failed Alan Ditty: unicornriot.ninja/2021/kare11-ou…
Alan Ditty—union pipefitter, husband, and father of two— died on March 12, 2016. He had worked for the city of Minneapolis for 32 years, and was only one year away from early retirement eligibility. He called in sick just three days over three decades. 
Ditty cared deeply and fiercely for his employees and the public he interacted with on a daily basis. When he discovered that a raid was imminent on a #BlackLivesMatter encampment after the fatal police shooting of #JamarClark in 2015, he feared for everyone’s safety.
Ditty was aware that in addition to tensions between protesters and police, men with handguns intended to come to the encampment (the men would later be identified as white supremacists & Allen Scarsella went on to shoot 5 unarmed protesters on Nov 23). unicornriot.ninja/2017/reportbac…
The city planned to have police remove the protesters & sanitation workers clear the encampment. Ditty & his workers were not trained to work in hostile situations, let alone those with a viable threat of armed conflict. The encampment was evicted Dec 3.
Read the full story of Al Ditty & hear audio interviews with his family on podcasts providing background on the story & the full investigation undertaken by @MinneapoliSam, who contributed this story, one that he's been following for years. unicornriot.ninja/2021/kare11-ou…
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