Minneapolis Weekend ‘Festivities’

Power Line links to a Minneapolis Star Tribune article about fatal (and otherwise) shooting in that troubled city, where the George Floyd killing occurred.

Gunmen unleashed a torrent of bullets in a crowded block early Sunday in Minneapolis' Uptown area, killing one person and wounding 11 others in one of the city's most violent shootings in recent memory.

Police said the 11 survivors were scattered at area hospitals with "various severity levels of injuries." The victim who died was a man, they said. All of the victims were adults.

The shooting was one of several across the city since Saturday afternoon — in all, 19 people have been struck by gunfire in that span, police say.

Minneapolis sounds a lot like Chicago and Baltimore, doesn’t it? And its City Council wants to abolish the police. That isn’t exactly pure, undiluted genius.