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Doug Rankin's avatar

As a retired police officer, I recognize “Cop City” as the financial and real estate boondoggle that it clearly is. If the goal was to really have positive impact on the city, they could re-develop a less over the top training center in a former industrial part of the city and not destroy precious green space that the community needs. Obviously we all are grateful for well run, community minded police organizations, but this hyped up police Disneyland has nothing to do with that. Much the way publicly funded/privately owned, and gently taxed, sports stadiums are all about the developer and the owner. Certain people, under the auspices of public safety, areare going to make boatloads of money plowing under this urban forest - hence the disproportionate response by the District Attorney’s Office. I will contribute to their defense and hope the city and the police dept comes to it’s senses. I hope constitutional rights groups and environmental orgs join forces with anti-tax organizations (where are you Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich?) to decry this farce. It’s in everyone’s interest.

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Pete Huck's avatar

If it weren’t for my (happily paid) subscription to Popular Information I certainly would be unaware of this story here in Minnesota. Shame on mainstream media for giving up on investigative reporting. My morning SubStack reads, and a few cups of coffee, are helping me keep a sense of sanity in a world that is losing its mind.

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