JNS blog asserted public safety exception to copyright, blog post by John Hoff
The Fremont Market, (3556 Fremont Ave. N.) a small and crappy "inconvenience store," was the scene of a shooting today according to a North Vent Facebook participant who stated she obtained the info in a phone call to police; who were checking on her welfare. The shooting reportedly took place behind the store. It's unknown if the store was robbed though initially some residents thought that was the case.
The photo above...
...was taken by a citizen "Facebook journalist" and documents the aftermath of the incident. One Facebook forum participant who claimed to have spoken to the shop owner stated the robber was shot in the butt, part of a recent pattern of North Minneapolis "ass shootings."
The robber and/or shooter and/or shooting victim (details are fuzzy and not confirmed to my satisfaction) ended up inside 3206 Humboldt Ave. N., a vacant house for sale. Police had the house surrounded for a while but later today it was reported the siege was ended. While police were there, word was the suspect was "trapped" in the attic.
Another Facebook journalist took this picture, below.
There was a general sentiment expressed that while no store owner deserves an armed robbery, it's hard to get all worked up over anything happening to the "inconvenience stores," which are a de facto support network for drug dealing in the streets.
These neighbors do not think of themselves as journalists. They are simply trying to inform their neighbors using social media tools freely available at their fingertips. However, in the context of a smaller, more wholesome Minnesota community, this incident would be front page news. What happened today at the Fremont Market and 3206 Humboldt Ave. N. is, in fact, NEWS.
But with mainstream media entities only chasing the big stories, wide gaps are left in necessary local coverage. Like the minutemen who fought the American Revolution, these Facebook journalists step into the gap and bravely serve their community in its time of need with the tools they have on hand.
Which leaves me to wonder...
If EVERYBODY is a journalist, is ANYBODY a journalist?
20 comments:
You are definitively and definitely not a journalist.
Amen to that! John is no journalist. Nor is he an activist. He can't find anything nice to say about the Northside, even though he claims to live here.
He's a pussy
YOU top three assonymous commenters are THUG HUGGERS and that IS a fact!
Montana
Yeah, in a healthy community this would be front page news! That’s the sad part. On a side not why you keep posting these nasty, petty comments that keep coming from the same few lowlife people is beyond me. Even a client in a court room who can’t STFU is removed from his own trial. If you said that snow is white they would come on here with some ignorant comment about how you’re wrong. It makes this blog frustrating to read when you want to see comments that pertain to your neighborhood and from people who actually live or are vested in the area. Please patrol the ugly petty troll, just a little bit. Free speech is good, free drivel and vomit isn’t needed.
To all of the anons above me..you are posting anon so w.t.f. are you? 12:19 may be warm, but I believe saying he is not a journalist is about the most juvenile and elementary thing you could come up with.
He may not be a cop but he is a SECURITY guard if that is any kind of comparison.
6:39 does not seem to realize that John has a lot of back-up from a lot of people who have lived here a lot of years. 8:48 is calling John a pussy and I bet he is extremely indignant about that...so you must be a dick is how I see it....DON!!~! All of you DON'S
There is nothing nice to say about the Northside when you're surrounded by these people. The Northside will continue to suck until those people are all packed up moved out or locked up.
He needs to pay his child support and come get this Subpoena.
Funny stuff, thugs are using spellcheck now,was wondering how long it would be before the DOC would start typing classes. John is a gift to the good people of NoMi.
B/C Jake
He a bitch lololol You Gone Get Smoked Lil Bitch
people better stop playing with mike (the store owner), he keep a pistol on him you dumb fucks. he been robbed before so he def. is not taking no shit..get em mike!!!!
tre-six
@9:20, you've got that right. If JNS said snow is white, they would start in on how Eurocentric & racist it is that snow is white. It's simply easier to blame the disfunction in the black community on whites than it is to stand up and own it themselves.
Oh, and look who the Minneapolis NAACP has elected as their new leaders: some of the most divisive people in the city. Change won't be coming anytime soon to NoMi, but let's keep money flowing to these worthless, apoligist nonprofits while the rest of us watch our home values plummet. It's disgusting.
January 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM, you're right. There is absolutely nothing nice to say about NOMI anymore. And there won't be anything nice to say about NOMI until MPD, the activist judges, and the parents of these thugs start doing their jobs. It's almost as if they are afraid. But no worries! They're fine with the fact that decent, tax-paying residents of NOMI are terrorized on a daily basis. And even more despicable are the ever-present thug-huggers who plague the NOMI forums. Oh, I know, let's fund their funerals for them!
JNS it would be such a crying shame if someone walks up on you with aids infested needle loaded with herion and poke you with it, wouldn't it john boy?
That's so cute when petty jealousy finds a safe haven like this blog, to spit their despicable hate filled venom. Priceless....
Northsiders do not like John Hoff, just go read the Facebook groups North Talk, and North Vent. People are asking that he be kicked out for baiting behavior and being a rude asshole. But that pussy Skrenes is afraid to give him thew boot.
You hear that, Skrenes? The anonymous anti-Johnny called you a "pussy." Does that make you cry?
People always come on here to whine about the northside forums.Sart your own you whiney bitches. They're free!
Ha Poke Johnny with an AIDS infected needle. Good luck with that, he's been hiding for months. Won't find him near where he's supposed to live, he too busy hiding out.
You needs good sights to take out this asshat.
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