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Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty MPD cops for security (minnesotareformer.com)
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When Maya Santamaria was opening a Minneapolis club in 2003, a city worker handed her a card for a Minneapolis police officer and said, “You’re going to work with this guy.”

To get a business license, a licensing employee told her she had to hire a certain number of off-duty Minneapolis police officers to provide security.

Why?

“Because they’re racist and we’re Mexican,” Santamaria said. “They didn’t want to let Mexicans have nightclubs.”

That’s her conclusion after seeing other similar-sized, white-owned venues escape the same mandate.

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Small business owners — particularly immigrant owned — say they've been pressured by police to hire off-duty officers to provide security.

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Cops run a literal protection racket in Minneapolis (minnesotareformer.com)
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Minneapolis probably has the most corrupt police force in the entire country. Jesus Christ.

Insane fact I learned from this article: Derek Chauvin and George Floyd were "coworkers" at the same club and almost certainly knew each other personally. Derek Chauvin being the police designated security the club owner was forced to hire and George Floyd being a bouncer.

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