A leading Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official in Minnesota has done what appears to be a 180-degree opinion reversal of Minneapolis police after she was brutally attacked during a carjacking as her children watched outside of her home.
Shivanthi Sathanandan, Second Vice Chairwoman for the Minnesota DFL, posted a 404-word message on her Facebook page, along with an image showing her bloodied face. According to the New York Post, Sathanandan “once vowed to “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department,” but she is now calling for tougher law enforcement following the attack.
In her lengthy message, the DFL official said she and her children “were violently car jacked in the driveway of our home in Minneapolis. Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight.”
She goes on to state, “I’m now part of the statistics. I wasn’t silent when I fought these men to save my life and my babies, and I won’t be silent now. We need to get illegal guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM… Look at my face. These criminals will not win. We need to take back our city. And this will not be the last you hear from me about this.
“Thank you to the incredible Minneapolis 4th Precinct Officers, Mayor Frey, Chief O’Hara, Paramedics, neighbors, friends and DFL family, who all came to our aide during this terrifying experience. I’m so grateful for this community that wraps us in love.”
But Fox News recalled how in 2020, “at the height of the George Floyd riots,” Sathanandan’s message on Facebook in which she declared, “We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me. DISMANTLE. The. Minneapolis. Police. Department…As allies, what can we do right now? LISTEN and LEARN from our Black siblings. And then AMPLIFY this message right now, in this moment. MPD has systematically failed the Black Community, they have failed ALL OF US. It’s time to build a new infrastructure that works for ALL communities. If you are still disagreeing with that BASIC FACT, I’m not sure what to say to you.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Sathanandan does include a familiar call for gun control to “get illegal guns off of our streets.” However, she does want the thugs held personally responsible.
According to her Facebook post, Sathanandan suffered bruises, “cuts all over my body” and a broken leg in the attack.
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No, Sweetheart, getting “illegal” guns off the street is a non-starter and none of your ilk have the stomach for what that would actually entail. Instead why didn’t you and your neighbors use YOUR guns to drive these thugs off? You paid a price for your refusal to hold people accountable for their actions and now you want the big, bad, boogey man of law enforcement to save you. You get no sympathy from me.
Liberals are waking up……one crime committed on them at a time. Too bad they didn’t have the BRAINS to listen to Conservatives a long time ago. The days of “hug a thug” are very much over and we all are paying the price for this LIBERAL STUPIDITY!!!!
wow this is the kind of stuff to make the left to see the light
It was so easy to be caviler before it happened to you. Kind of like too bad for other citizens that were attacked. Hypocrite. IMO
Calm down folks. This idiot still thinks gun control (defined as disarming everybody) will save civilization when the opposite is true. If you want a safe society, then no guns for felons who will find ways to get them and guns for those who do not have a violent criminal past. Freedom ain’t free. It requires courage to maintain it and an armed citizen is vital to for freedom.
Ye WILL reap what ye SOW! LOL
Sadly, some people just have to learn the hard way that the police are not their enemy. I hope the democrat’s children learn that lesson by watching their mother being beaten and robbed without having to experience the pain of it on their little bodies. Calling for stiffer penalties for these offenders is a little late though. How many other people have been begging the dems to keep the criminals locked up in Minneapolis? Lots! Have they? NO! Past time to do so, IMO.
If Democrat voters were smart, they’d quit electing flip-flopping virtue signalers.
But they’re not, and they won’t.
Too bad, so sad, and don’t let the door hit you on the a$$ after filing your report with your understaffed police department.