Article – Armed Neighborhood Groups Form In The Absence Of Police Protection

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Somebody was nice enough to send me an email with a link to this article. Much thanks.

Cesia Baires knocks on the three apartment doors above her restaurant and a neighboring taqueria just before curfew.

A woman opens the door. Her two young children are inside.

“Remember,” she says to them in Spanish. “Same thing as yesterday. I’m going to come check on you. If there’s anything you guys need, give us a call right away.”

Meanwhile, a few men climb through the window and on to the roof to set up semi-automatic weapons as the curfew begins in Minneapolis. It’s something Baires never thought she would have to do as a small-business owner, but then she found out these apartments were occupied.

“Material things we can replace, that’s true,” she says. “But there are families up here. These aren’t empty buildings.”

I’m a little annoyed at the use of the term ‘vigilante’. which is clearly not what is going on here. But…its NPR so thats about par for the course.

12 thoughts on “Article – Armed Neighborhood Groups Form In The Absence Of Police Protection”

  1. That article is so damned biased I couldn’t finish it. Casts doubt on the accuracy of the whole piece. Shame. Probably an awesome story.
    Where’s the right side story tellers on the subject, I wonder…

  2. With the article coming from NPR I’d say that it’s a good article. It’s not a hit piece slamming gun owners the whole way.

    CZ, you’re welcome for the link.

    Steelheart

  3. I kind of agree with Steelheart, I was kinda amazed. NPR?! I listen to them every day on the way to work to see what the left is up to, so I know their reporting, & this was rather low key biased for them, for sure. I am sure a lot of misinformation ” white man named Jordan — he wouldn’t give his last name but described himself as working with anarchists” here to help?!, ya right. Probably saw the Latinos outgunned them and decided that making friends was better than dying that day. Glad I live far away from this BS!

  4. video of raz, the self appointed warlord of chaz is making the rounds of him handing ar15’s out the back of his car. where’d he get them? who paid for them, if anybody? the complicit politicians waited too long, now its gonna get ugly. btw, where’s the outrage over all the cops that got murdered this week?

  5. I think people securing their own lives and to a lesser degree property is totally good. Not vigilante anything. Now if they try to extend out into public spaces and intimidate people like the thinly veiled Nazis are doing in Seattle and New Mexico that is super uncool.

  8. Is it just me or is the man on the left in the photo with three men in it carrying a air-rifle?

  9. Government extorts protection money from citizens…

    When the government fails to protect, the people will either protect themselves, or find a way to not pay the protection – tax avoidance, or moving.

    I chose moving, from California to the United States.

  10. “Martinez’s group, coordinates with an Indigenous motorcycle group”

    Lol, I love the spin.

    Stories like this, where ordinary Americans are banding together and using the 2nd amendment to protect their life and liberty, must be scrambling the liberal progressive brains at NPR!

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