figure Mark Andrew, used under First Amendment Fair Comment and
Criticism and public safety exception to copyright, blog post by John
Hoff
If you haven't already read the dramatic story of how second place Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew confronted and battled with a trio of cell phone thieves at Mall of America, click here for the Star Tribune article or (if you dislike annoying Star Tribune pop-ups as much as this blogger) click here for the CBS Minnesota story.
Andrew had his cell phone snatched while sitting at Starbucks in MOA, a place where I have often sat with my own teenage son; both of us occupied with our laptops. When Mark Andrew ran after the youth that snatched the cell phone, two other youth got into a physical altercation with him, apparently trying to cut off Andrew's pursuit. Andrew was struck in the head with some kind of metal baton and required stitches but his two assailants, 17 and 18, were arrested. The baton may have been a collapsable metal "asp" type like that found in the purse of the younger alleged assailant.
The cell phone was dropped by the thief and returned by a passerby. Passersby were otherwise too fearful to get involved in the incident.
Here, linked, is a criminal complaint in the possession of the Star Tribune for Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain, (DOB 11/7/95) the older of the two accused assailants. For some reason the Star Tribune saw fit to redact her address so JNS blog will be correcting that little error in journalistic judgment, as follows...
As near as I can determine from the Hennepin County Jail Roster, the address of Cutler-Cain is 7908 Lee Avenue, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. This address comes up as 7908 Lee Avenue NORTH in a search of Hennepin County property. It is a non-homestead property, most likely a rental, owned by Yue Liu of 233 Gleason Lake Rd, Wayzata, Minnesota.
The house sold for a mere $54,000 in 2012 but its current market value is $76,500.
As for Cutler-Cain, she is being held on $100,000 bail and facing four charges. This is not her first charge. On December 4 of this year she was arrested for disorderly conduct according to jail roster information compiled and published by LocalBlotter.com.
The best photo of the suspect can be found on City Pages, click here.
Hoodie trash, all of them!
ReplyDeleteGood for Mark Andrew!
ReplyDeleteMy name is LaTrice Sorell, co-founder of Urban Entitlements.
ReplyDeleteYou need to take down this silly-assed blog. She has every right to visit the Mall of America. And she deserves a nice phone.
Unredacted criminal complaint available at www.scribd.com/doc/194135386/Mark-Andrew-robbery-charges
ReplyDeleteThe address in the posted criminal complaint is 7908 Lee Ave N. Brooklyn Park MN
who the little theif?
ReplyDeleteMost men would be ashamed to have their a$$ kicked by teenage girls. When you're an attention craving politician, it's just another opportunity for publicity.
ReplyDeleteBecause she was yelling repeatedly that she was going to kill him, she is also going to charged with terrorist threat, she isn't going to be to employed easily anywhere, no doubt she'll get pregnant and shoot out couple of thuggy bastards that the rest of society will have to care for. And I use to be against eugenics.
ReplyDeleteCertain unkind and intolerant remarks are only being approved in the name of free speech.
ReplyDeleteMust be there Obama Phone is bust or stoled. That why they went shopping at the sweet spot!
ReplyDeleteKeep CCWs and don't flinch!
ReplyDeleteI think those black girls need to be charged with a hate crime.
ReplyDeleteOf course "unkind and intolerant" doesn't mean wrong. In fact, it almost always means "true" these days. In certain contexts, "kind" and "tolerant" translate to "victim". Tolerance is way overrated and intolerance is understandably becoming increasingly acceptable.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the story's gone national http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/12/28/two-teen-girls-beat-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-for-his-iphone/
ReplyDeleteLetajia Shapree Cutler-Cain was one of the "lady" perps. Probably embittered about having been hobbled with that name.
I can't believe a sixty-three year old white man beat the shit out of those two worthless staink bitches.
ReplyDeleteIf I was either one of them ho's I would be ashamed that an old white guy punked me. Their thug buddies are laughing at them and they're getting ready to snitch on dude.
Just wondering how you translate the words "crude" and "stupid?"
ReplyDeleteBUSH phones! This is not a HATE crime unless you KNOW they screamed racial comments at him and they beat him because he was WHITE. PLENTY of black people are being mugged for their Iphones in NOMI, including a friend of mine who was hit with a gun in the face and is black. Is THAT a hate crime. EVERYTHING is NOT about race!!! Hate may be the word for what is going on in this world but it is hate based on greed, money and materialism, not skin melanin.
ReplyDeleteI can see why you're saying the phones under discussion are, in fact, "Bush phones."
ReplyDeletehttp://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/27/924011/the-truth-about-the-obama-phone/#
But that name hasn't caught on and it will never catch on.
If the insurance companies implemented a certain policy this could all come to a halt and it would , at least, stop a majority of the thefts.
ReplyDeleteThey want the status quo because you are addicted to what is going on these days and you cannot live without it.Big Brother has come to fruition and your helpless and have no clue...a lemming....and they don't care if you fucking die; nice thought, eh? The love of material object's..........I like sunrise's and sunset's.
Mr. Widstrand, over in St. Paul, wasn't a hate crime and, simple enough, without tearing lnto your self conformational illusion, people from ALL races have the capability of being racist.These perps an example, too far and few between, of justice being rendered Anon Dec 28 12:45... only white's are racist, remember. Free speech, right?
ReplyDeleteIt would be AWESOME if people actually looked up the word racist and knew what it meant. It can rarely be attributed to races other than whites. It does NOT mean prejudice or targeting whites because they are an easy mark. THAT is not racism. You dont get to assign your own meaning to a word.
ReplyDeleteWhile it may not be the last chapter of the story, it's a pretty late chapter.
ReplyDeleteOne of the teens gets probation.
http://www.startribune.com/local/284010831.html