Oh, Minneapolis. The city that once prided itself as a “progressive utopia” has now become the cautionary tale everyone else is watching unfold in slow motion — or, rather, in rapid fire. Six dead, five more injured, all within 24 hours. Not in a war zone. Not in a foreign land. But right here in a major American city.
And what’s the predictable response from leadership? Deafening silence, virtue-signaling tweets, and the usual talking points about “systemic root causes.” Meanwhile, the rest of us are left watching the carnage and asking how many more lives need to be destroyed before someone in charge wakes up.
Enter Jim Schultz, who said what everyone with half a functioning frontal lobe is thinking: this is what happens when you spend years vilifying police officers, slashing budgets, and bending over backward to coddle criminals in the name of “equity.” You don’t have to be a political strategist to see the dots connecting themselves — when you treat law enforcement like the enemy and criminals like misunderstood victims of society, you’re going to end up exactly where Minneapolis is now. In chaos.
Turns out, if you defund the police, you get more crime!
Democrat-run Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/KcGZ1ZyOBU
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 7, 2025
Let’s talk about James Ortley — the alleged gang member accused in the latest mass shooting. Not his first rodeo, by the way. This guy has a rap sheet that reads like a twisted résumé for urban terror: DWIs, robbery, fleeing police, shooting a teenager, and stabbing a man in a bar. Yet, in the magical land of woke prosecution, he’s somehow still on the streets.
Why? Because Hennepin County’s own Mary Moriarty has apparently decided that enforcing the law is too passé. Far more trendy to experiment with race-based sentencing and let violent offenders out with slaps on the wrist. Because, you know, “restorative justice.”
Never mind that Minneapolis police staffing is still down by nearly half. Never mind that morale is in the basement. Never mind that every family living in the city has to calculate the risk of going out after dark. This is what happens when ideology trumps public safety. And it’s not just incompetence — it’s negligence masquerading as social justice.
Gov @Tim_Walz and @MayorFrey will tell you what a great job they are doing on crime.
This is what the 12,464 crimes that were reported to the Minneapolis Police Dept between 1/1 and 4/29/2025 look like on a map.
Each of these icons represents a crime victim.
source: MPD pic.twitter.com/GebFjkxJtG— MNConservative🇺🇸⭐️ (@RealJMPeterman) April 30, 2025
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just about one failed prosecutor or one violent criminal. This is systemic failure delivered on a silver platter by elected officials who decided long ago that scoring political points was more important than protecting the people they serve. Mary Moriarty isn’t some rogue player; she’s the poster child of the Soros-funded, ultra-left agenda that’s made its way into local governments all across America. She’s following a script written by activists who see the justice system not as a mechanism for safety and order, but as a tool for “equity audits” and social experimentation.
And now the DOJ is sniffing around — not because of the surging crime, not because of the absurd recidivism rates, but to investigate whether this same prosecutor is using race inappropriately in her plea deals. You couldn’t script it better if you tried. This is what happens when bureaucracy gets drunk on its own power and ideology. Minneapolis is burning, and Washington’s concerned about the phrasing of plea bargains.
So, as the bodies stack up and families mourn yet more lives cut short by a system that refuses to hold criminals accountable, the question isn’t “how did we get here?” It’s “why is this still happening?” The people of Minneapolis deserve better. Heck, the country deserves better. Public safety isn’t a partisan issue — or at least, it didn’t used to be. But now we’re stuck in this upside-down world where calling for more police presence and tougher sentencing makes you the extremist.
INSANITY: A restaurant owner in Minneapolis, Brian Ingram, was robbed by a man with 50 prior arrests. The man was then released from jail, robbed Ingram’s restaurant a few days later, then came back a few weeks later and robbed him again.
Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota is a sh*t… pic.twitter.com/vN2w4vQ2Sp
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) May 2, 2025
If Minneapolis wants to climb out of this hole, it’s going to take more than investigations and PR statements. It’s going to take a serious reckoning — with the policies, the prosecutors, and the progressive pipe dreams that got us into this mess. Because slogans don’t stop bullets. And until that lesson sinks in, don’t expect the headlines to change.
