The first shot rang out at about 11:40 p.m. Two drug deals had gone
down within sight of my Hawthorne home even before Christmas eve had
passed, and the gang activity was escalating. An older woman and a
child ran from the crime scene screaming, while a younger woman jumped
into one of the gangbanger's favorite wheels, the last of the rear
drive GM intermediates, and raced off. Our police department that our
mayor wants shaken up promptly responded but found nothing. Minutes
after MPD left the gangbangers started up again, with an argument in
front of 2515 3rd Street North and the firing of another shot. Take
note of that address, you've probably saw it on TV last summer when the
gangbangers kidnapped a child there when his hooker mother didn't pay
her drug debt. MPD responded again, mustering 7 squads and promptly
bringing the situation under control. MPD then spent over an hour
thoroughly processing the crime scene. Thanks to Minneapolis' Police
Officers quick action neither an ambulance or the coroner's Suburban
was needed and everyone was able to walk away from the scene, including
the perp in handcuffs.
I'd planned on finishing my historical novelette of pre Stonewall
christmas gayity, but I'm too sick of heart after the reality of last
nights events to write further. Clearly Minneapolis was a safer city
for even a bunch of drag queens in the 1950s than it is for any citizen
today.
hanging on in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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