Rashida Tlaib’s THOBE, and Ilhan Omar’s HIJAB, are making congressional history

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Back in Omar's district, Police deal with Gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community

For the attending police officers, it was a frustrating, albeit familiar, response from a member of the Somali community, whose support in November sent one of their own, Rep. Ilhan Omar, to Congress. While Omar has spoken out frequently and forcefully on a range of issues - some that seem little connected to her district - most members of the Somali community she represents remain far more insular.

The national epidemic of shootings involving young African-American men in America's cities certainly isn't unique to Minneapolis. But some officers here believe issues of cultural ASSIMILATION involving the Somali immigrant community, and a struggle on both sides to better communicate law enforcement's mandate to protect and serve, makes it a particularly imposing challenge. One that politicians like Omar, they say, could do much more to effectively address.

According to data compiled last year by the Washington Post, more than half of all HOMICIDES statewide in Minnesota go UNSOLVED. And that's in part because Somali-Americans in Minneapolis aren't talking enough to police, according to officers.


Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Back in Omar's district, Police deal with Gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community

For the attending police officers, it was a frustrating, albeit familiar, response from a member of the Somali community, whose support in November sent one of their own, Rep. Ilhan Omar, to Congress. While Omar has spoken out frequently and forcefully on a range of issues - some that seem little connected to her district - most members of the Somali community she represents remain far more insular.

The national epidemic of shootings involving young African-American men in America's cities certainly isn't unique to Minneapolis. But some officers here believe issues of cultural ASSIMILATION involving the Somali immigrant community, and a struggle on both sides to better communicate law enforcement's mandate to protect and serve, makes it a particularly imposing challenge. One that politicians like Omar, they say, could do much more to effectively address.

According to data compiled last year by the Washington Post, more than half of all HOMICIDES statewide in Minnesota go UNSOLVED. And that's in part because Somali-Americans in Minneapolis aren't talking enough to police, according to officers.


Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community
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Snitches get stitches.
 
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Electric Orange said:


This "lady" is a DISGRACE. Minnesota should be ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED.
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What's wrong with this question? Does he

support an armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide if you believed they were serving U.S. interests, as you did in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua?
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Electric Orange said:


This "lady" is a DISGRACE. Minnesota should be ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED.
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It's hard to say Minnesota should be ashamed. There's so many Somali "refugees" which is why she got voted in. Maine is the same way. All kinds of crime going on in Maine from refugees and the media isn't reporting it.
 
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Can someone point out what was wrong with her line of questioning? Frankly it's good to see our shithead politicians being called out for their meddling ways in foreign countries and ****ing up **** ten times worse than it was before they got involved.

Seems like y'all just don't like it because of who it's coming from.
 
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MercyPercy said:
Can someone point out what was wrong with her line of questioning? Frankly it's good to see our shithead politicians being called out for their meddling ways in foreign countries and ****ing up **** ten times worse than it was before they got involved. Seems like y'all just don't like it because of who it's coming from.
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Meh, her questions were a little incoherent. That’s my biggest issue. I have no problem with the fact that she was grilling that guy, just that she wasn’t very articulate.
 
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MercyPercy said:
Can someone point out what was wrong with her line of questioning? Frankly it's good to see our shithead politicians being called out for their meddling ways in foreign countries and ****ing up **** ten times worse than it was before they got involved.

Seems like y'all just don't like it because of who it's coming from.
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Wish the US hadn’t intervened in Somalia
 
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C-south said:
Wish the US hadn’t intervened in Somalia
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You basically have bad people on both sides there and we chose to rescue one bad side from the other. Lots of countries like that where neither side deserves our support. Yemen would be another example.
 
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davethevol said:
You basically have bad people on both sides there and we chose to rescue one bad side from the other. Lots of countries like that where neither side deserves our support. Yemen would be another example.
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No doubt. It’s one of those s***hole countries we should’ve let destroy themselves and definitely not take any in. Maybe just keep a carrier parked off the coast.
 
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davethevol said:
Meh, her questions were a little incoherent. That’s my biggest issue. I have no problem with the fact that she was grilling that guy, just that she wasn’t very articulate.
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Meh, English is her second language.

I had no issue with the substance or style of what she said. Frankly, we need more politicians asking these very same questions anytime we get a sense that the US wants to go on one of their nation building escapades.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
They can go anywhere they want. Just not to the USA. IF we had proper border security it wouldn't be an issue and we could make beer cans out of that carrier.
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Lol. That would work too. Sadly border security can’t stop idiot lawmakers from getting them and bringing them here.
 
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davethevol said:
She doesn’t come across as very intelligent, and she’s clearly full of herself. That being said, the guy she’s attacking is a scumbag of the highest order and doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
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Im not saying he deserves sympathy, but if all this lady is gonna do is smugly stumble over questions about how the United States is the only country with any blood on its hands over events from the 80s and virtue signal at the expense of America, then she should STFU.
 
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Electric Orange said:
Im not saying he deserves sympathy, but if all this lady is gonna do is smugly stumble over questions about how the United States is the only country with any blood on its hands over events from the 80s and virtue signal at the expense of America, then she should STFU.
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Oh I agree. I think her motives are clear. She hates America.
 
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