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back to normal
2020-Jun-12, Friday 02:55 pmI was shot at today. Indirectly, but it's still troubling.
I completed more yard work today and wanted some new food besides what I have at home. I got in the car and drove northwards to a more-distant Cub grocery than the closest one (previously closed due to looting and protests). As I turned off from my neighborhood streets onto a busy road, I approached the small "Handy Stop" gas station near that corner.
Gunshots. People scrambling behind cars several meters ahead of me and to my right. The people doing the scrambling were line-of-sight between me and the puffs of smoke. I assumed bullets heading my general direction. I hunkered down as low as I could get in my car. I know from a previous shootout that my car door will stop typical bullets. I drove on by, avoiding the other cars in their rush to leave the gas station.
I got to the Cub, parked, and looked around my car. No new bullet holes. Hopefully they missed hitting anyone or anything.
But... we're back to normal around here. My work-from-home day on Tuesday was interrupted around 3pm by a scream and then 4 gunshots nearby. I couldn't tell the direction at the time, but I knew it was only a few houses away. I never heard sirens for that one. I was woken later around 1am, though, by sirens passing my house and then stopping near that same location. Apparently that one was just somebody with a hammer.
So, we're back to normal here in the #WarzoneInMinneapolis. We reached bad summer levels of violence here early in the COVID lockdown. We got a temporary reprieve with the riot curfew, since collective attention moved elsewhere for a few days. Now, back to deadly gunfire everywhere.
I'm tired of arguing for better social safety nets and institutions. I am solidly in the camp to defund/disband the police and move those military budgets elsewhere.
And tax the rich. Or eat them. Whichever helps the most.
I completed more yard work today and wanted some new food besides what I have at home. I got in the car and drove northwards to a more-distant Cub grocery than the closest one (previously closed due to looting and protests). As I turned off from my neighborhood streets onto a busy road, I approached the small "Handy Stop" gas station near that corner.
Gunshots. People scrambling behind cars several meters ahead of me and to my right. The people doing the scrambling were line-of-sight between me and the puffs of smoke. I assumed bullets heading my general direction. I hunkered down as low as I could get in my car. I know from a previous shootout that my car door will stop typical bullets. I drove on by, avoiding the other cars in their rush to leave the gas station.
I got to the Cub, parked, and looked around my car. No new bullet holes. Hopefully they missed hitting anyone or anything.
But... we're back to normal around here. My work-from-home day on Tuesday was interrupted around 3pm by a scream and then 4 gunshots nearby. I couldn't tell the direction at the time, but I knew it was only a few houses away. I never heard sirens for that one. I was woken later around 1am, though, by sirens passing my house and then stopping near that same location. Apparently that one was just somebody with a hammer.
So, we're back to normal here in the #WarzoneInMinneapolis. We reached bad summer levels of violence here early in the COVID lockdown. We got a temporary reprieve with the riot curfew, since collective attention moved elsewhere for a few days. Now, back to deadly gunfire everywhere.
I'm tired of arguing for better social safety nets and institutions. I am solidly in the camp to defund/disband the police and move those military budgets elsewhere.
And tax the rich. Or eat them. Whichever helps the most.