Ambushed in Brooklyn Center

Tim Gannon, the former police chief in Brooklyn Center, made 100 decisions in the days after Daunte Wright's shooting. In this article, he says he can't think of a single decision he'd change. Gannon said "In every decision that I made for those two or three nights; I thought any other police chief would’ve made those same decisions. They were the right decisions to make. I wanted the community to know that we were going to be honest, transparent, and if it looked bad, it looked bad."

Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott ambushed Gannon at a meeting that Elliott told Gannon he had to attend:

The day after Wright’s killing, Mayor Elliott told Chief Gannon he needed to attend a 10 a.m. community listening session before the chief’s 11a.m. press conference where he would reveal the body cam footage to the media.

"I walked in, and to be honest with you, I didn’t recognize many, if any citizens from Brooklyn Center. It turned out to be a number of activists from Minneapolis and St. Paul that the mayor had invited in to ridicule me for the way I handled the protests the night before," Gannon said.

He said the activists, backed by the mayor, wanted him to fire Potter immediately.

The definition of ambush is "an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise." Being told by activists to fire someone without investigating first is the personification of an ambush.

Apparently, this mayor isn't interested in things like investigations, due process and civil service laws. Instead, Elliott apparently thinks that listening to activists who don't live in Brooklyn Center is his highest priority. Keeping the public safe apparently Elliott's highest priority:

Elliott identifies himself as a progressive:
This is governance of, by and for the activists. Though it doesn't say that these were BLM activists, it isn't a stretch to think that that's who were there. What could possibly go wrong? Due process rights are getting eliminated. The presumption of innocence is getting dismantled. The next step is sending out "unarmed civilians to handle many traffic violations." These are constitutional and policy disasters waiting to happen. Unarmed civilians sounds nice but they're just lambs being led to wolves for slaughtering.

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