{"id":577598,"date":"2021-06-30T15:35:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577598"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:35:57","slug":"minneapolis-protesters-hold-black-transgender-city-council-member-hostage-demand-riot-charges-be-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-protesters-hold-black-transgender-city-council-member-hostage-demand-riot-charges-be-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Protesters Hold Black Transgender City Council Member \u2018Hostage,\u2019 Demand Riot Charges Be Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fminneapolis-protesters-hold-black-transgender-city-council-member-hostage-demand-riot-charges-be-dropped%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=577598&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\/06\/79639FBE-DCAA-41A6-A55A-BBAFCA478AE7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Protesters surrounded a black, transgender city council vice president\u2019s car at a Pride event in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend and held the official \u201chostage\u201d until they agreed to sign a list of \u201cpeople\u2019s demands,\u201d which included \u201cdropping charges against criminal rioters,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/minneapolis-councilmember-hostage-protesters-george-floyd-square\">according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the incident emerged over the weekend, showing \u201cAndrea Jenkins, who represents Minneapolis\u2019 8th Ward and identifies as the first Black openly transgender woman to be elected to office in the U.S.\u201d trapped by what appear to be \u201canti-Fascist\u201d or Black Lives Matter-affiliated protesters, demanding that Jenkins sign a document before they would allow Jenkins\u2019 car to move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident happened Sunday afternoon while Jenkins was attending the Taking Back Pride event in Loring Park, as video shows her sitting in the front passenger seat of a white vehicle being blocked by a group of extreme Black Lives Matter demonstrators, many with their cellphones out recording,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, uploaded to Facebook by \u201cactivist\u201d Donald Hooker, Jr., Jenkins, who is in the passenger seat of the car, can be seen telling someone on the phone that \u201cIt might be three days before I get out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p>Hooker shows the camera a list of \u201cThe People\u2019s Demands\u201d that Jenkins must agree to before she\u2019s free to leave. The handwritten note calls for the formation of a \u201ccommunity police accountability commission,\u201d to \u201creopen all the cases of murderers,\u201d to \u201cdrop the charges for all 646 protesters and other protesters for 2020,\u201d and to \u201cmake all information on the murder of Winston Smith available.\u201d It also demands the resignation of Mayor Jacob Frey and to \u201cleave George Floyd Square alone. PERIOD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protesters shouted each demand and asked if they had Jenkins\u2019 support. She agreed, \u201cYes,\u201d to the first few before shaking her head when protesters called for Frey\u2019s resignation. The crowd shouted again until Jenkins finally agreed and she asked, \u201cDo you understand English? I already said it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jenkins did object to one of the protesters\u2019 demands: that the city \u201cleave George Floyd Square alone.\u201d The Square, which became home to a makeshift memorial just days after George Floyd\u2019s death, is now an \u201cautonomous zone\u201d and off-limits to police, emergency services, and other law enforcement professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins pointed out that the residents and small business owners in George Floyd Square have been under siege and that it is her job to take care of those constituents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you\u2019re asking me not to do my job,\u201d Jenkins said. I was elected to represent that neighborhood, so what you\u2019re asking me to do is to not do my job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not asking no more, White lady. We are demanding,\u201d a person in the crowd answers, directing the insult at the driver, not Jenkins.&nbsp;\u201cDo your job and drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins later issued a statement on the incident, acknowledging the \u201cBlack pain, Black trauma, Black anger\u201d that led to the \u201chostage\u201d situation, but demanding an end to \u201cinhumane treatment\u201d of elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack pain, Black trauma, Black anger is real and justified. What is not justified is the inhumane treatment of other humans because they hold elective office,\u201d Jenkins said on social media. \u201cOn Sunday afternoon, while attending a Pride event in Loring Park, something I\u2019ve done on the last weekend in June for the past 20 plus years, I was verbally attacked, berated, and held \u2018hostage\u2019 against my will by a large group of angry protesters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery citizen of this City has a right to bring forward their concerns, but no citizen has the right to detain and coerce anyone to do anything, that includes elected officials,\u201d Jenkins added.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, however, Jenkins echoed some of the protesters\u2019 demands, calling on the city to investigate the deaths of \u201cDolal Idd, Daunte Wright, and Winston Smith,\u201d and suggesting that if Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is not voted out, he could face council opposition.<\/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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters surrounded a black, transgender city council vice president\u2019s car at a Pride event in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the weekend and held the official \u201chostage\u201d until they agreed to sign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313761,"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\/06\/79639FBE-DCAA-41A6-A55A-BBAFCA478AE7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minneapolis Protesters Hold Black Transgender City Council Member \u2018Hostage,\u2019 Demand Riot Charges Be Dropped","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/79639FBE-DCAA-41A6-A55A-BBAFCA478AE7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minneapolis Protesters Hold Black Transgender City Council Member \u2018Hostage,\u2019 Demand Riot Charges Be Dropped","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577598","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=577598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}