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Minneapolis Police Warn Business Owners ‘Reinforcements’ To Help Handle Violence ‘Aren’t Coming Any Time Soon’

Emily Zanotti
Minneapolis Police Warn Business Owners ‘Reinforcements’ To Help Handle Violence ‘Aren’t Coming Any Time Soon’
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One Minneapolis police inspector is warning residents of a district, hit hard by a city-wide spike in violence, that police reinforcements aren’t available to help handle increasing crime and they “aren’t coming any time soon.”

CBS Minneapolis reports that the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, Inspector Sean McGinty, warned business owners in a note that he simply can’t help them address or repel break-ins, burglaries, and other incidents that have plagued the neighborhood all summer. Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct is where rioters “occupied” and then burned the local precinct building in protest over the death of George Floyd.

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