The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) told residents they should “be prepared” to hand over their phones, wallets, and purses to robbers.
The MPD has reported a 46 percent increase in carjackings and a 36 percent increase in robberies compared to this same time last year, according to WCCO.
Police in the city’s Third Precinct alone have received more than 100 reports of robberies and 20 reports of carjackings in just the last month.
Officials are now telling residents to be ready and willing to comply with the demands of criminals in an email sent to Third Precinct residents.
“Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet,” the police said in their email, a copy of which was obtained by Alpha News. The email said citizens should listen to criminals and “do as they say.”
The message warned that “some victims have been maced, dragged, assaulted, and some threatened with a gun.”
In addition to emailing Minneapolis residents, the police have circulated the directions via local media. KTSP, Bring Me The News, and other outlets have all reposted the MPD’s directives word for word.
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said his department has “redeployed internal resources and intelligence gathering” to combat what he calls an “uptick” in crime, Bring Me The News reported.
Despite this, innocent people have been affected by the recent rash of crime. After several men tried to rob a woman in broad daylight, police said a Good Samaritan rushed to intervene and was shot in the process.
A 99-year-old woman was also assaulted in her home by a man who broke in and wrapped her head in a blanket. Despite her age and the directions to comply with the criminal’s demands, Evelyn Johnson boldly warded off her attacker.
“He thought he was just going to cover my mouth and smother me, but that didn’t happen. I fought him. We wrestled for quite a while, according to all my bruises,” she told KTSP.
Johnson said the suspect eventually shoved her into her bathroom, stealing her iPad and $40.
Bad message
The Minneapolis police are complicit in declaring war upon its people with this statement
We have the right to defend ourselves and will ,with any means available to us
With this declaration ,you have set yourself up as the Enemy to the People
There some funny mother f er s here take my stuff rape and kill my family as I watch , they lost the f ing minds
Years ago in that very sh!thole Minneapolis, a small keg party at my girl friends place with a handful of folks.
A car pulled up in the alley, six got out with knifes, and clubs attempting an assault.
They had their asses handed to them.
Folding chairs do a lot more damage then what is seen on wresting… 🙂
The water run off down the middle of the alley had a small stream of blood.
One of us got stabbed, and my hand got slashed, but they got fkd!
Minneapolis !!! This tells me loud and clear ..it’s TIME TO GEAR UP..
The only legitimate message to the people of Minneapolis is “Be prepared, be armed, and exercise your 2nd amendment right and the right to self-defense.
no authority for corp. mercenary pigs