Showing posts with label 3515 Girard Ave. N.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3515 Girard Ave. N.. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2012

"Crazies On Parade" At Public Safety Committee Hearing, But Overhaul Of Police Conduct Review Process Passes Anyway (PART ONE OF TWO)

Bullet holes at 3515 Girard Ave. N., blog post by John Hoff

Wakey, Wakey, Eggs And Steaky

Too early in the morning a buddy called my phone and told me I needed to attend a hearing of the Minneapolis Public Safety Committee at 1:30 which promised to be a lurid spectacle. The Civilian Review Authority which "polices the police" is being overhauled; a hearing on the overhaul promised to attract every rabid, chomping, foaming-at-the-mouth cop hater in the city and, actually, plenty of the crazies wouldn't be from Minneapolis at all but would attend anyway, eager to spew into a hot microphone and bash our brave police with stories lacking veracity and key documentary details needed for the most rudimentary fact-checking.

Somebody needed to balance out the other side and fate had chosen me because my phone was fully charged and I recognized the number calling, so I picked up. Somewhere in the midst of this request to attend the hearing was a crazy story about....

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

In Case Anybody Cares, 3515 Girard Ave. N. Was Recently Shot Up...

Creative stock photo, bullet found in the body of Jesse James, blog post by John Hoff

As much as I like Facebook forums and appreciate their role in Northside neighborhood revitalization, sometimes I read something in a forum and I think, "This information is just going to waste and needs to be preserved in the more visible part of the internet."

Well, a report that somebody shot up 3515 Girard Ave. N. about a week ago is exactly the kind of info that needs to be in the public record...