The arguments against the Mpls Dept of Public Safety @Yes4Minneapolis amendment don’t make sense to me. From opponents in yesterday’s Strib... 1) “it fires the police chief & we like him!”

First, this is not true. It removes requirement to have a police chief from the City Charter. The Council could still choose to have a Police Chief & the Charter outlines the process for having other officers: library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis…

Sometimes I think about how the “social engineering” narrative for bike lane (etc.) opponents is so fundamentally false. The opposite is actually true. A thread from biking with my son to his school today My son’s school is in the densest neighborhood in Minneapolis, Loring Park. Walking & biking there should be easy and obvious choices and were for generations surely. Here’s what used to be the front door

My neighbors & I protected our home @MidtownGlobal bldg for 4+ hrs tonight as nearly every building around us fell. We stopped 5 attempts to breach & deterred more I’m sure. I ended up aiming a community fire hose brought in lieu of the fire dept. We stepped up when govt didn’t I saw wanton destruction of property. Heard dozens of gunshots close to me. All by people who didn’t even know what neighborhood they were in. For most, it was sport. Kids from the suburbs and exurbs (multiple WI plates), some opportunistic looters, and middle aged people too