Minneapolis: Homeless ghouls rummage through pockets of dead and injured crash victims
By Crime Watch MN, Dec. 12, 2022
Troopers with the Minnesota State Patrol responded to a crash in Northeast Minneapolis early Monday morning around 2:30 to 3 a.m. after a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed left the 35W interstate and crashed on Johnson Street Northeast.
Dispatch audio (above) at the time of the crash captured a Minneapolis dispatcher relaying to MPD officers that State Patrol requested their assistance at the site of the crash near the Home Depot at the Quarry shopping Center because they had caught three homeless people going through the pockets of the injured parties when they arrived.
Information later obtained from State Patrol revealed that one party had died in the crash and three others sustained life-threatening injuries in the rollover crash.
A homeless encampment that has been a constant source of issues in the area, including overdoses, fires, damage to property, and thefts, has been allowed to exist on a slice of city-owned property at the back of the Quarry shopping center parking lot for years.
An eviction notice was posted at the encampment over the summer, but no action has been taken since then to dismantle the camp.
City officials, including Ward 1 city council member Elliott Payne, have enabled the existence of the encampment by making excuses for not clearing it out and kowtowing to a small but vocal subset of activists, some of whom have threatened violence against police and city workers who participate in encampment evictions.
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