When I was growing up I heard “Minneapolis, Minnesota” every day on the radio, sometimes twice a day.  It was Billy Graham’s mailing address.  You have to excuse a guy for thinking that Minneapolis, MN was a kind of Mecca,  Bethel,  Axum, Qom, or Salt Lake City.  Until a vile police officer knelt on the neck and back of a Black man and took his life in plain sight I imagined that Minneapolis was a city full of virtue.  Residents and others familiar with the city have complained, it is reported.  And attorney general Merrick Garland has corroborated that Minnesota’s police force is a rotten cabal from hell.

Anybody, save us from a holy city

• Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• Bethel, Israel
• Axum, Ethiopia
• Qom, Iran
• Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Minnesota PD, on the healing highway

The findings of the Garland DOJ are sometimes exculpatory,  but there are over a dozen police departments with disturbing records currently under the microscope of the Department of Justice.  It is curious that one never heard the great Evangelist rail against the evil resident in Minneapolis’ guardians of justice and public safety. Do not ask why heads are not rolling. Let us hope that a few bad apples in Minneapolis policing are not the whitewashed conclusion.