{"id":464442,"date":"2021-05-02T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=464442"},"modified":"2021-05-02T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:05:36","slug":"university-of-minnesota-student-government-representative-to-classmates-make-cops-lives-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-minnesota-student-government-representative-to-classmates-make-cops-lives-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of Minnesota Student Government Representative To Classmates: Make Cops\u2019 Lives Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversity-of-minnesota-student-government-representative-to-classmates-make-cops-lives-hell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=464442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1313985320.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A high-ranking member of the Minnesota Student Association, Lauren Meyers, called on her peers in student government to harass campus law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you say disrupt [the University of Minnesota Police Department], what exactly do you mean by that?\u201d Ranking At-Large Representative Andy Knuppel asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake their lives hell,\u201d Meyers replied nonchalantly. \u201cAnnoy the s**t out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay\u2026\u201d Knuppel replied, clearly taken back by the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, according to Meyers, is to \u201cuse up their resources.\u201d She encouraged students to place fake calls for help to \u201cmake officers show up to something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made on a video conference call where members of the student government were discussing a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mppoa.com\/images\/2568_001.pdf\"> letter<\/a> calling on UMPD Chief Matt Clark to resign for \u201crepeatedly and unequivocally disregard[ing] students demands, fail[ing] to increase campus wellness and safety for students of color, and \u2026 allow[ing] the utilization of UMPD as a physical arm of the oppressive state to subjugate and silence community members both on and off campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.937677053824\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here it is. We received a copy of the video that was deleted from Reddit.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UMN?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UMN<\/a> Student Association Rep Lauren Meyers advocates disrupting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UMPD?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UMPD<\/a> police to &#8220;make their lives hell, annoy the sh*t out of them, use up their resources, make their officers show up to something.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MN?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DxQD4b0aDE\">pic.twitter.com\/DxQD4b0aDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1386834733984751621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two police unions, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA) and Law Enforcement Labor Services (LELS), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mppoa.com\/images\/U_OF_M.pdf\">issued a statement<\/a>, asking Meyers to apologize to UMPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActively planning to thwart UMPD by generating false calls for help is insulting to the overwhelming majority of the campus community that rely on public safety services. MSA leaders should be ashamed \u2014 and apologize to the campus community and victims of crime on campus,\u201d MPPOA Executive Director Brian Peters said in the statement. \u201cLast month the campus community had 13 incidents of aggravated assault, 52 burglaries, 22 car thefts, 4 sexual assaults, numerous thefts, and a murder on or near campus. We\u2019re frustrated that elected student leaders would purposefully choose to stir further division to make the campus less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unions also called on university officials to launch an investigation \u201cfor Student Code of Conduct violations.\u201d The unions cited multiple areas of the student <a href=\"https:\/\/regents.umn.edu\/sites\/regents.umn.edu\/files\/2020-01\/policy_student_conduct_code.pdf\">code of conduct<\/a>, including falsification, attempt to injure or defraud, and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"39\">\n<p><em><strong>Subd. 3. Falsification.<\/strong> Falsification means willfully providing University offices or officials with false, misleading, or incomplete information; forging or altering without proper authorization official University records or documents or conspiring with or inducing others to forge or alter without proper authorization University records or documents; misusing, altering, forging, falsifying, or transferring to another person University-issued identification; or intentionally making a false report of a bomb, fire, natural disaster, or other emergency to a University official or an emergency service agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Subd. 5. Attempt to Injure or Defraud.<\/strong> Attempt to injure or defraud means making, forging, printing, reproducing, copying, or altering any record, document, writing, or identification used or maintained by the University when done with intent to injure, defraud, or misinform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Subd. 9. Disorderly Conduct.<\/strong> Disorderly conduct means engaging in conduct that incites or threatens to incite an assault or breach of the peace; breaching the peace; obstructing or disrupting teaching, research, administrative, or public service functions; or obstructing or disrupting disciplinary procedures or authorized University activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The unions also stated Meyers\u2019 calls for thwarting police could result in a number of misdemeanor and felony offenses, including \u201creporting fictitious emergency resulting in serious injury,\u201d which carries a 10-year sentence and\/or a $20,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Two members of the student government, Andrew Knuppel and Morgan McElroy, slammed Meyers\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are two members of the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) Executive Board and we wholeheartedly denounce the comments that were made during the April 14, 2021 Executive Board meeting regarding police interference on campus,\u201d the pair said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/\u201cWe call upon our fellow student leaders who have stayed silent over the last 72 hours to denounce the comments made in the clip that\u2019s been widely circulating in the media,\u201d\">statement.<\/a> \u201cWe call upon our fellow student leaders who have stayed silent over the last 72 hours to denounce the comments made in the clip that\u2019s been widely circulating in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve any progress on critical campus issues such as police reform and campus safety, elected student leaders should strive to engage with administrators and campus law enforcement collaboratively,\u201d the joint statement said. \u201cThe public comments made by our colleague, unintended or otherwise, have cast a dark shadow on what should be a constructive dialogue among elected student government leaders, the student body, administration, and other stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knuppel and McElory told <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/u-of-m-student-leaders-condemn-calls-to-obstruct-campus-police\/\">Alpha News<\/a> the full video recording \u201chas since been deleted from our internal communications network and is the only Executive Board meeting recording we do not have access to at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/police-call-for-apology-after-u-of-m-student-fabricates-account-of-police-misconduct\/\">Alpha News<\/a>, this isn\u2019t the first time a member of student government has been involved in anti-law enforcement rhetoric. Earlier this year, Nikil Badey, who the school newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/mndaily.com\/265237\/news\/umpd-releases-squad-car-footage-in-response-to-incident-involving-a-student-leader\/\">identified<\/a> as a \u201cstudent government leader\u201d lied about UMPD racially profiling him. Badey was stopped because they believed he \u201cmay have fit the description of a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier that night,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mndaily.com\/265237\/news\/umpd-releases-squad-car-footage-in-response-to-incident-involving-a-student-leader\/\">The Minnesota Daily<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking member of the Minnesota Student Association, Lauren Meyers, called on her peers in student government to harass campus law enforcement officers.\u201cWhen you say disrupt [the University of Minnesota &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277174,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1313985320.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University Of Minnesota Student Government Representative To Classmates: Make Cops\u2019 Lives Hell","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1313985320.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"University Of Minnesota Student Government Representative To Classmates: Make Cops\u2019 Lives Hell","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}