First, the student tried fighting off an attack by three juveniles, two of whom were armed "with a hockey maneuver." Although he ran into the street, no passers by stopped to help or apparently summon police. Second, because the student was able to give descriptions (he removed the shirt off one of the perps) and the direction in which they fled, when police did arrive, they were able to spot and nab one of them, the shirtless one, at a house on Franklin Ave. E.
Here is the best part:
Police later obtained a search warrant for the house and found enough evidence inside to solve 60 to 70 percent of the crimes happening near the house, Reimer said.
Hopefully this guy will roll on his friends.
H/T uofmalum
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15 years old?! Is armed robbery some kind of new youth program that the local rec department is sponsoring?
"Hey Beave how was your night out with your friends? I thought I asked you to be home by 9:00."
"Awww shucks ma, we were just out committing armed robbery and assault on strangers is all, we just lost track of time!"
Something tells me this boy won't do any serious time for this and will grow up to commit even worse atrocities on a regular basis.
Welcome to life in Ceder-Riverside.
I'd never be able to go to school here if I didn't own a car. Wouldn't dare go anywhere on foot after getting mugged and punched within 15 feet of my dorm in December.
And yeah, it's kids. Most around 18 or younger. This isn't what kids should be doing. If they really needed the money, maybe I could have helped them somehow. Or maybe they could have gotten a crappy job like I did at their age for expenses. It's not glamorous to rob people---it's wrong.
Victims are getting wise to thugs' antics, and are fighting back.
A little vigilantism may be the only option until our great elected leaders get off their "We don't need no police" attitude.
i think it is disgusting that not one car stopped to help the victim. You could atleast honk your horn to draw attention. We need to watch out for eachother and get these punks off the streets.
People don't help. Kid on a bike got hit Hiawatha Av recently. Three other cars hit his bike, too.
The gangstas know we don't have any sense of community--that it's everyone for him- or herself.
They use that to their advantage.
Mpls. is just in denial about the crime problems. A city that has to have a "Safe Zone", downtown murders in supposedly safer areas of people minding their own business, two murders on public transit buses within weeks, robberies out of control by juveniles who never seem to get caught, crime increases every year with no reduction, isn't exactly a promising prospect for a city's future.
Maybe it is just the fact that nothing can be done now that we have so many of these crime prone new populations from out of state (and country) that nothing can really solve things.
Don't ge me wrong I am not anti-Mpls. or anything but I could see the changes ten to fifteen years ago and things are way worse now. The city will most likely be like Detroit (if it isn't already) in a decade or two with an empty core city but with fleeing residents living in the outer suburbs escaping the crime.
Unfortunately the gentrified areas like the U of M, downtown, etc. will have to deal with the fringe neighborhoods causing the crime to city visitors if the justice system can't keep the criminal element in jail.
Geez cities like Hudson, WI are considered suburbs of the Twin Cities now!
This guy should get a medal. Wonderful. Yes, it's risky to fight them - but it can be risky to not fight them, too. It's risky just being anywhere close to these punks, so you might as well take one or more to the hospital with you. Outstanding.
like Detroit? ya right haha. you have no idea.
no shit... anyone who thinks Minneapolis is even 1/10th as bad as Detroit has obviously never set one foot in that city...
not saying Minneapolis is exactly a utopia, but it's hardly a city i'd call "dangerous", and this coming from someone who grew up in a town of 3000.
yes i'd like to see our crime rates reduced, that's always the goal, but keep some perspective here.
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