A robbery occurred Tuesday afternoon on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank, per a campus-wide security alert.
The robbery took place at of Fifth Street and 21st Avenue South at 2:42 p.m. Properties near the intersection include the Regis Center for Art, the Barbara Barker Center for Dance and Parking Lot 94.
The suspect was described as a male wearing dark clothes. He appeared to be in his early to mid 20s and used a gun to steal the victim’s purse.
He left the scene in a Red BMW with Minnesota license plate number 109WTM. The car was driven by another male and headed east from the scene of the crime.
This is a breaking news report. More information may be added as it becomes available.
Tom
Sep 18, 2020 at 12:29 pm
Lol nah.
You’re literally an insane person. That’s why you spend all your time typing long rambling comments that make no sense online. You’re also probably pretty lonely.
Good luck with that.
Richard Turnbull
Sep 17, 2020 at 1:38 pm
Thanks for definitively, conclusively verifying my arguments about wingnuts like you, as you can’t (and in fact NONE of you people can) mount a rational defense of any of your bigoted gibberish, this kind of projection onto me of your sickness and lack of education is predictable.
Tom
Sep 17, 2020 at 10:00 am
You’re extremely unintelligent/crazy.
Good luck with that.
Post more rambling comments on The Hill. That’s where all the policy genius’s I know hang out.
Richard Turnbull
Sep 17, 2020 at 4:02 am
Fine, so you have a “feeling” about people you don’t know, have never met, have never interviewed, have never met to discuss these racially charged issues, and want to lecture other people about your “feelings,” got it.
Yet somehow, via some occult process, you are convinced the activists and protesters only care about black lives impacted by law enforcement’s egregious use of excessive force, and never, ever work on the other problems connected with crime in our communities. Of course that’s ludicrous and reveals far more about you than the reality, so thanks for that!
What exactly do you think your statistical breakdown of crimes proves?
You could check FBI figures for some recent years and discover that in Chicago (this is from memory but closely tracks the figures) some years ago (within the last five or six years), whites were victims of violent crimes at a rate of about 3.8 per 100,000, Hispanics about 21.4 %, black Americans about 41.0 %. Asian-Americans were also listed as were Native Americans, I don’t recall the approximate numbers for them. Of course the entire breakdown has its own problems but since we are in the middle of this, and you are making claims based on phenotypical traits, let’s proceed.
By themselves these numbers don’t “explain” the complex social, political, historical etiology that has produced these results. You don’t “explain” anything about our shared social reality by citing your “feelings” as evidence or self-standing cogent arguments, either.
You also reveal a strange delusional “feeling” which leads you to make the preposterous claim that “BLM attributes every problem in world to white people.” Where on earth did you get that idea?
The fact is one of the crucial aspects of some police-citizen interactions that end in violence is the race of the police officer and that of the citizen. Your “feelings” as an aggrieved white person whose fragility is obvious enough don’t alter that dynamic.
Richard Turnbull
Sep 17, 2020 at 5:53 am
See also the rebuttal of a few of Trump’s thousands of lies in “Race and Homicide, by the numbers,” at US News, September 29, 2016, by Matthew Cella and Alan Neuhauser.
Specifically: Trump’s lies that (1) “blacks were responsible for 81% of the killings of whites,” that (2) “African-American are in their worst shape ever,” and (3) that “inner-city crime is reaching record levels.”
Violent crime has been declining in the US for over thirty years, while Trump’s lies continue to mount to astonishing, record levels, see the results for example from a search for “Trump’s biggest lies about the pandemic,” to mention another problem in which racial disparities make their presence felt.
roxiehud
Sep 16, 2020 at 8:50 pm
I’d like the article to state what color his skin was, more than a description of his clothes, i.e., was his skin “dark”, like his clothes? I live just a couple blocks from there, so want to be on the lookout for him … I mean, he might change his “dark” clothes to “light” colored clothes, but his skin color will stay the same, no matter what he picks out of his closet to wear.
Tom
Sep 16, 2020 at 7:38 pm
My comment had more to do with my feeling that activists only care about “black lives” when it’s convenient.
Black men commit 50% of all violent crime and homicides in America despite making up only 12% of the population.
Yet we’re consistently told by activists that the problem is “whiteness” and the police when the numbers tell a markedly different story.
Now crime has risen *dramatically* and we’re still being told that the police and white people are the problem, and not, say, the people actually committing crimes.
I’m just continuing down the logical progression BLM uses when they attribute every problem in the world to white people.
Please tell me more about what I think though.
Richard Turnbull
Sep 16, 2020 at 11:19 am
I’m sure that made more sense in the original dialect.
EDIT: To clarify, the remark you posted seems unhinged from any empirical grounding in the facts provided in the news account, but from observing what I term the “Wingnut Weltanschauung,” it seems that from within a certain robotic perspective, any news about crimes can be twisted into a racially bigoted narrative.
Moreover, it manages to smear the millions, of protesters morally outraged by illicit police use of deadly force, which also fits the profile.
Wingnuts absolutely loathe coping with the problems posed by coping with life in a highly complex society, in which the institutions may fail to act competently or fairly, even up to engaging in what amounts to “extrajudicial killings.” Rather to come to grips with the need for reform or radical change, they tend to demonize the victims, whether those are women or racial or religious minorities, or anyone else who has what looks like a credible grievance.
Cf. “The Authoritarian Personality.’
In sum, while your purportedly sarcastic remark about this nasty robbery being connected to racial divisions and protests must have seem cogent and reasonable to you, I find it downright bizarre and definitely racially insensitive. I suppose that’s your cue to call me a “snowflake,” right?
If that critique strikes you as unfair, by all means argue your case in good faith and I will respond.
Tom
Sep 16, 2020 at 10:24 am
It’s totally fine! It was just a youth protesting about white supremacy.