[Mpls] Further Murderapolis Fireworks: the Body Count Rises Again...

[Dyna Sluyter]

	We we're lucky this 4th, the flammables were none to dry and the wind 
barely blew. None the less on the evening of the 4th more than a few 
garages, cars, etc.. managed to not so spontaniously combust. Worst hit 
was Jordan neighborhood, where firefighters ran from fire to fire while 
attacked by less than grateful gangbangers who probably set the fires. 
Meanwhile Hawthorne again involuntarily hosted the gangbanger's annual 
fireworks show just south of Lowry on 4th Street. Unlike the all too 
short official display down on the river, the fireworks were nonstop 
all evening except for a brief reprise while ambulance, fire, and 
police responded to a violent domestic incident. Smaller displays were 
numerous and all to obvious to be ignored by law enforcement all over 
the Northside. But when they're 200 officers short and have to send 
officers to patrol an event in the luxury loft neighborhood downtown, 
our police can't do much more than triage.

	But the worst of the weekend came the next day, when yet another 
murder occurred within a few blocks of Lowry and Lyndale. This is a 
neighborhood all too familiar to the good folks from the Coroner's 
office, who must visit this 'hood all too frequently. Dig out a street 
map if you've got one handy, if not this is a simple grid system and 
easy to follow. This latest murder was in the 2900 block of 6th Street 
North. 5th Street got cut off at the bend by Bassett's Creek when they 
laid out the street grid parallel to the river, so 29th Avenue and 4th 
Street where another Minneapolitan was murdered over a kids bike last 
week is but a block east. Four blocks north and a block west is the 
flower shop where a clerk was murdered a couple weeks ago.  And a few 
blocks east past the new school not one but two people were murdered on 
the corner of Washington and 33rd a short few months ago.

	5 senseless murders within a few blocks, and thats just the tally so 
far this year... Is this not Murderapolis?

                hangin' on in Hawthorne,
			Dyna Sluyter 
   

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