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9. Minneapolis police chief issues apology for linking Somali youth to local crime
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:19 AM
Sunday

11/22/25
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minneapolis-police-chief-issues-apology-for-linking-somali-youth-to-local-crime/ar-AA1QXh8X

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara apologized to the Somali community for a comment he made connecting "East African kids" to crime.

. . . At the same time, if people have taken anything that i have said out of context in a way that’s caused harm, I apologize, and I’m sorry for that because that’s not my intention at all," O'Hara added. ((sounds really sincere -- geez if you find what I said to be objectionable, it's because you are taking it out of context, you stupid woke douchebags --progree))

. . .

In an interview with WCCO earlier this month, O'Hara was speaking about a deadly Halloween shooting as well as juvenile crime plaguing the city when he made the comment. Alpha News reported that the Dinkytown area, where the shooting took place, has seen a series of crimes including assaults, robberies, shootings and auto thefts.

During the interview, he stated that the young people committing the crimes were not "poor kids from Minneapolis," but rather kids that come from out of town who take "mommy's Mercedes-Benz to Dinkytown, and they don't know where they are." ((not a helluva lot of Somali kids have moms with Mercedes-Benz's --progree))

"Groups of kids, groups of East African kids that are coming from surrounding communities and not just one community, kind of all over the place," O'Hara told WCCO. ((Translation: omg, the East African kids are all over the place now --progree))


It goes on with other examples of how the Somali community has been demonized. Something I can attest to -- I've been reading 3 local news outlets daily for years.

It also includes tRump's latest rant and ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota.

Yes, this is a Fox News article, but over the past months and years, other news outlets have been painting the same picture. I posted to show the bias of the Minneapolis police chief -- and the insincere apology -- as an example of what Somali-Americans here have to deal with.

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