They didn't wait for the mainstream media, and they didn't even wait for neighborhood bloggers. No sooner had the Star Tribune published an article naming one of the "Bloody Fourth of July" shooting victims in North Minneapolis as Cabrie D. Young, 28, but participants in a Northside community Facebook forum ("True North Minneapolis") started doing their own journalistic research and digging up relevant facts for themselves...
Posted without commentary was a link to a mug shot, documenting an arrest in Champaign County, Illinois. Another forum participant wrote, "He doesn't have a record in MN, but it looks like he was in jail in IL until just recently," and posted a link. (The link requires filling out info to read the article in question, so I won't be posting it)
The same forum participant then wrote, "He's also on the Champaign County, IL Housing Authorities' (sic) No Trespass List. The 3700 block of Girard has been trouble all summer long. Do you suppose he had anything to do with it?"
In a bitterly cynical but somehow quite understandable comment, a long suffering North Minneapolis resident then wrote: "+1 for the civilized."
The question this blogger has is why are readers of the Star Tribune put in the position of digging up and sharing their own newsworthy info? Is it much too politically incorrect to say this murder victim came here from Illinois, where he was charged with crimes and not allowed to be in public housing? But then he immigrated to Minneapolis? Not so much an economic immigrant as a "social services immigrant"? Anybody with six fingers and Google can unearth these facts with a minimal digging.
So why must we do our own digging? Is it the position of the mainstream media that if readers who care merely get the name of the victim or the person charged, then these readers will do the rest of the work and reporters can take a nice long coffee break and cluck their tongues over the slow, painful death of "dead tree" media?
Good question.
ReplyDeleteIf people want low life "social services immigrants" to stop moving to NoMi from Chicago and elsewhere, they should support a change in MN law that disallows any benefits until (at least) 6 months after arrival in the state. How would the legislators from NoMi vote on such a change? Probably against it - just like they'd vote against strong sentences for "prohibited person in possession of a firearm". Liberal democrats vote to keep going easy on criminals and for policies that entice more of them to move to MN.
ReplyDeleteThe question is not how the North Minneapolis reps will vote, or why they will vote that way.
ReplyDeleteThe question is why everybody else in the legislature votes like that. We are clearly getting the spillover of Chicago's problems, attracted by our wide open social welfare system. This guy wasn't even ALLOWED TO ENTER public housing in Illinois. So what was his housing situation HERE? Was it being paid for with our State's generous Section 8?
Meanwhile, it's much worse in Chicago:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/justice/chicago-shootings/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Joseph Lee Smith should have been IN JAIL at the time of the shooting of Cabrie Young.Our criminal justice system barely slapped his hand for a gun crime and let him go.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Lee Smith should have been IN JAIL at the time of the shooting of Cabrie Young but our ridiculous criminal justice system let him go, for a GUN crime.
ReplyDeleteYou don't know much about Section 8, do you Johnny?
ReplyDeleteChicago (pop 2,715,000 people) is 6.9 times larger than Minneapolis (pop 392,000).
ReplyDeleteMinneapolis 2 killed. 2 x 6.9 = 13.8.
Chicago 9 killed. Minneapolis is worse per-capita.
Smh rip cabri
ReplyDeleteGood job! Keep pounding it to local "go comb your hair" media.
ReplyDeleteIt's so crazy how small of a world it is. He used to live across the street from me and we played together as kids. I'm guessing once he got the boot from public housing in Illinois, he came back here to some family. So sad. He shouldn't even been around to do any harm! He should've been in jail! Prayers to the family.
ReplyDeleteNo johnny doesn't know anything about anything. He makes his assumptions and writes about things he THINKS he knows! I knew Fat Dude aka Cabri. You're always looking for the bad in those who get killed on the North Side. I hate your blogs and believe they're slanderous. I hope one of these someone sues you for defamation of character. He didn't migrate here for public housing either. He moved here to get away from trouble and start over. His mother was worried about him being in Chicago and wanted him here. Anyone who knows anything knows when you get in trouble for a drug crime, such as weed, which is what he went to jail for you're no longer eligible for public housing and banned. Why are you automatically assuming he lived in public housing? You just make shit up! He worked, very hard, 3rd shift and was trying to make it on the right track. He was kind, generous and always smiling.
ReplyDeletePAUL HARVEY USED TO CRY... and now the rest of the story. When the total truth gets told, only then are any of you anonymous assholes credible except the mysterious one who is me with a thousand stories to be told.
ReplyDeleteJohnny "Fucktard" Northside. You and the rest of you shit heads commenting think you really know about people, because you sit up and find bits and pieces of info on Google and Facebook. Cabrie was NEVER any housing assistance...NEVER! He's alwasy had a job...ALWAYS. He went to jail for weed on public housing property. He got out, stopped smoking weed, and moved to MN to be close to his mom. He had a job here up until the day he was killed. YOU PEOPLE are so fucking stupid. FUCK YOU, FUCK THE STUPID ASS PEOPLE ON HERE AGREEING WITH THE DUMB SHIT YOU SAY, FUCK Y'ALL FAKE ASS INVESTIGATION, FUCK YOUR COVERT ASS RACISM. YA BITCH!
ReplyDeleteNOW POST THIS!
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