{"id":933000,"date":"2021-10-28T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933000"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:44:05","slug":"ilhan-omar-blames-minneapolis-crime-spike-on-dysfunctional-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-blames-minneapolis-crime-spike-on-dysfunctional-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar Blames Minneapolis Crime Spike on &#039;Dysfunctional&#039; Police"},"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\">18<\/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%2Filhan-omar-blames-minneapolis-crime-spike-on-dysfunctional-police%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=933000&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\/10\/Ilhan-Omar-Black-Bodies-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the Defund the Police sympathizer from the so-called \u201csquad,\u201d said during a recent town hall that the Minnesota&nbsp;crime surge is due to the \u201cdysfunctional police department\u201d that has \u201cchosen to not fulfill their oath of office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things,\u201d the Democrat congresswoman&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/ilhan-omar-blames-police-for-rise-in-violent-crime-in-minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>&nbsp;when she was caught on camera during a town hall on Saturday.&nbsp;\u201cOne, the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Uniform Crime Report, violent crime in the city <a href=\"https:\/\/dps.mn.gov\/divisions\/bca\/bca-divisions\/mnjis\/Documents\/2020-Minnesota-Uniform-Crime-Report.pdf\">increased<\/a> 17 percent in roughly the past year.&nbsp;Minneapolis Police Department has seen problems in their community since&nbsp;former officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in May of last year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the&nbsp;National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/07\/01\/police-group-attacks-police-91-last-year\/\">announced<\/a> earlier in the year that overall, in&nbsp;2020, \u201c60 law enforcement officers were shot in 48 separate ambushes, and 12 died as a result of being ambushed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minneapolis Police Department is the most dysfunctional police department in our state and probably in our country,\u201d Omar added during her rant about the police department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0812182741117\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ilhan Omar accuses police of not fulfilling their oath of office and blames them for the rise in violent crime in Minneapolis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3LhuOuXEff\">pic.twitter.com\/3LhuOuXEff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Berg (@MikeKBerg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeKBerg\/status\/1452727174423891975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd I do believe that the current charter that we have does tie the hands of those who want want to have that accountability,\u201d Omar continued. \u201cWe are mandated to have a specific amount of policing. We are mandated to have this kind of union contract that you have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite blaming the&nbsp;\u201cdysfunctional police department,\u201d the Minnesota&nbsp;congresswoman last year also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/02\/ilhan-omar-refutes-obama-defund-the-police-is-not-a-slogan-but-a-policy-demand\/\">called<\/a> the&nbsp;Minneapolis Police Department \u201crotten to the root, in addition to saying that \u201cdefund the police\u201d&nbsp;is \u201cnot a slogan but a policy demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her latest third-quarter&nbsp;FEC reports showed that the congresswoman&nbsp;spent more than $22,000 on private security from two firms:&nbsp;Aegis Logistics LLC and Lloyd Security Services. This means that her campaign pays for her private security. So, her donors are supporting private security while she calls for police to be defunded.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s note: this article was edited for formatting. No content was altered].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the Defund the Police sympathizer from the so-called \u201csquad,\u201d said during a recent town hall that the Minnesota\u00a0crime surge is due to the \u201cdysfunctional police department\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933000","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}