Episode 417, The Andrew Parker Show: “Minneapolis – Filled with hate?”

In this powerful episode of The Andrew Parker Show, Andrew asks the difficult question: Is Minneapolis a city filled with hate?

He begins with the horrific shooting at Annunciation Church, offering condolences to the victims and their families, and then examines the deeper issues plaguing the city: rising crime, a lack of deterrence, prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law, and political leaders unwilling to face the consequences of their policies.

Andrew challenges the media’s selective coverage of violence, comparing national attention on certain tragedies with the silence surrounding the ongoing deaths of children in Chicago and other cities. He draws a line between local failures in Minneapolis and broader national trends—from cashless bail to prosecutors funded by far-left donors.

Finally, he connects these themes to Israel’s fight for survival after October 7th, exposing the dangerous double standards applied both domestically and internationally when it comes to law, justice, and morality.

Transcript

Welcome to the Andrew Parker show episode 417. Thank you once again for joining us on the show and just to wet your whistle a bit or some of the upcoming shows that you will be able to download. You will be able to listen to at your leisure.

We will be having Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner on the show, the oldest at the time of his retirement, the longest serving ⁓ Republican in the entire House of Representatives. And Jim, a good friend from the state of Wisconsin, who rose certainly through the

ranks in Congress to become one of the leaders of the House of Representatives and a stalwart on holding the line on spending and making sure that our government worked for all the people, those that the government should be answering to.

So we'll have Jim Sensenbrenner on the show. Paul Anderson, ⁓ one-time chief of staff to Governor Tim Pawlenty will be returning to the show. We're gonna talk about Israel. is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state of Israel as he has been there, I believe, a few times. And is another good friend.

of the show. ⁓ In addition, soon we will have political rockin tour Shane hashy back to the Andrew Parker show. And always interesting discussion and debate with Shane. Norm Coleman will be on the show. Not too long. Invitations have been out for some time to Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both.

would be returning guests as they've been on the show before, but of late, no response. Crickets. I don't know that they wanna talk about their votes related to Israel. I don't know if they want to defend their position as it relates to the state of Israel, the single and only Jewish state in the world. And their...

votes and positions that appears to reward terrorism.

appears to want to pressure the state of Israel when it is defending its very existence.

The US Senate is starting to buckle, even though it's immoral.

the position that Western Europe is taking, even though it is immoral, the position that the Democratic Party has been taking, siding with the murderers, the terrorists, those who committed atrocities on October 7th, equivalent to the Nazi atrocities of World War II on a much smaller scale, of course, heinous. Nonetheless,

And taking those sorts of positions that they cannot walk away from I'd like to have as we've always had with Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith on the show and otherwise a civil discussion debate discourse With them, they know they will always get that here, but they do not want to

come on the show apparently, but I will continue asking. Same for the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, who was on the show and ⁓ I believe helped him get elected when he was running against or as a part of a seven person race for mayor when Fry won and was initially ⁓

elected mayor of minneapolis

He came on the show, the other six candidates did not. I view that as a one-to-one correlation to incoming on.

the show and, ⁓

Winning an election that he wasn't frankly favored to win against these many other candidates. Since that time, he has not come on the show viewing it as maybe the death knell for him within the DFL here in Minneapolis, which is about as left wing as any.

a city electorate in the country. So we'll keep trying to get Jacob Fry on. I would like to ask him about the city of Minneapolis. And frankly, that is the topic I would like to talk about on this episode 417. I first want to say that not just our condolences, but our heartfelt

embrace of the families, in all respects, of the families of those injured in the recent shooting at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis. It was horrific.

Two died, another in critical condition as of this airing, and several others injured during the shooting.

⁓ It is terrible. less can be said. Carried out apparently by this single individual who everybody is talking about as being a trans person. ⁓ And it's very sad on many different fronts.

One of the things that I think about often, not just in this case, but in many, many of the others that have occurred, whether you call them mass shootings or other sorts of murders, even those that occurred on October 7th, or the killing of the 899 IDF soldiers, kids.

who required to serve their country in order to save and protect their country from annihilation, which the neighbors of the State of Israel seek.

Those are deaths as well.

And.

the deaths of civilians in Gaza, deaths as well.

And in each of these situations that I've been talking about, it is someone taking someone else's life. Not in self-defense or any other potentially moral position, but...

actually murdering them.

⁓ sometimes intentionally and sometimes far from intentionally, but occurring nonetheless. And all of the factors that go into looking at what occurred in a particular death, where one person is taking the life of another, affects the moral

discussion around the event.

I find it interesting though that here in the US we have national coverage as frankly maybe there should be for sure of such an atrocity as occurred here in the city of Minneapolis.

there is not national coverage when there is a shooting of

a black youth, a black child in the city of Chicago. Might be a drive-by shooting. It might be a scuffle ending in a shooting and the murder of a 14-year-old or an eight-year-old.

But you don't hear about that. That doesn't get national coverage. Maybe it's because they weren't sitting praying in a church like occurred at enunciation. Maybe it's because they weren't sitting studying in school.

But in often times in these cases they are sitting in their living room playing and you get a stray bullet or they're in the front yard doing the same. It's a drive-by shooting.

or they're simply out with friends.

And there's a scuffle ending in a shooting.

I just often wonder what is the measure or weight?

of one's particular life versus another.

and looking at the different circumstances might cause one incident to be covered national news and the other never to be covered locally, nationally or otherwise.

It's often been written and talked about and reported that black on black shootings, murder, death ⁓ is the highest by percentage.

That isn't the point that I'm making.

But what I am wondering is what about those black kids that are killed?

And shouldn't there be more coverage for that? There certainly is when it's a white person that kills a black person, and particularly if they are a police officer. We have seen that extensively.

Whether that was in self-defense or intentional or otherwise, oftentimes there has been huge outcry and national coverage of such incidents even before they've been adjudicated. And in fact, once adjudicated, it is determined that there was not improper conduct by the one person who took the life of the other.

So it has always struck me that.

There should be more coverage of.

criminality, the crimes that are committed.

And there should also be more deterrence.

Donald Trump is starting to put that out there and some even on the Democrat side are starting to pick it up and run with it. Mayor Bowser is acknowledging that crime is down with the heavy hand of the government bringing back deterrence. Open, visible deterrence. More police officers.

and if necessary, military.

Why? Because it has been far too long, I would argue at least back to the beginning of the Obama administration, where law and order has taken a backseat, where law enforcement has been assailed and attacked, where our judicial system has been a revolving door and sometimes in less than an hour somebody is back out on the street.

no deterrence whatsoever. Society has made the statement in many respects that you can cross the line in terms of the moral values of our society that are established in the criminal code, thou shalt not do these things. You can cross that line and know that

you will not have any consequence. When that happens, that line is crossed time and time again by those who might not otherwise cross it if there were consequences.

Now, for sure, there are evil people that are going to cross the line no matter what the consequence is. But there are many, many, more.

who deterrence can have a real impact.

And that is the purpose of our criminal code.

Hopefully not to have to punish people because they won't do it in the first instance, but if they do There will be swift justice

And that is not in order to take advantage of people, to take out some anger or attitude that society has against people.

That is to create a society, a community, that is safe for us all to live in and feel safe in.

And again, that comes from.

properly supported law enforcement by those in society who are law-abiding and who are there to be protected and should be protected and expect protection in safe communities.

We need to have law enforcement that has our support.

both in terms of the numbers so they can do their job well and in terms of pay and in terms of risk avoidance.

all of that. But beyond that, we need to have prosecutors and a judicial system that meets out serious and real consequences for conduct.

This is my opinion. This is, you know, it's been undermined over the last many years.

by prosecutors who take an entirely different approach and one that has caused our crime rates to skyrocket.

And it has created a feeling in our communities of a lack of safety.

Yes, these prosecutors are elected locally. And there was a concerted effort, a conscious decision and effort by some on the far left, in particular very wealthy

people on the far left to pour money into these little campaigns, relatively speaking, of prosecutors in different cities. Nobody ever used to pay attention to those, just like they didn't pay attention to the school board elections. Well, now people are starting to pay attention as their kids are being taken into these schools of indoctrination.

That's for another episode, but it's a very important issue, maybe the most important of all. We are going to be talking about.

what our kids are learning.

this alternative reality that they're learning.

But back to the issue of our ⁓ judicial system, if prosecutors are elected who do not believe in the rule of law or in the criminal code, and therefore ⁓ don't charge,

felonies or misdemeanors in certain ⁓ situations or at a certain level, anything below, we're not charging, it's counter to their job. It's counter to what the people.

elected representatives to establish a criminal code that they expect to be followed.

It is taking it out of the hands of those who elected the people. Now you would say, yes, but the people elected the prosecutor and presumably the prosecutor told them what they were going to do and the people wanted that. Maybe so. In certain instances, maybe so.

But I would say then you got to change the criminal code.

You can't just like in the issue of immigration. We've got immigration laws on the books and it was decided by administration upon administration, we're not gonna follow those laws. We're gonna bypass the democratic process that would require you to rewrite the laws because Congress can't get its act together to do that and we're simply going to ignore the laws even though those laws were put on the books through a democratic process.

through the voice of the people.

And if you want to change those laws, you put somebody in there who can change it. And until that time, you enforce the laws on the books. So with respect to the criminal code, it's hardly different.

Go change the criminal code if you don't want to enforce the criminal code. Don't make it up as you go along.

And by the way, you undermine the confidence of the people.

Because it's a revolving door and nobody cares about the victim. The victim is crying. I just lost my five year old.

And you know, you gave the murderer one year.

My daughter was just raped and you give the rapist.

One year.

There are judges on the bench that are doing the same thing.

That's a little bit of a different issue, the judges. But when we're talking about a justice system, by the way, before we go on, and what about cashless bail? You know, have somebody that's ⁓ been arrested, so it's probable cause, and information is gathered, they're being held.

They committed allegedly a heinous act and

They're let out on cashless bail. Maybe never to be seen again. And if they are, why should they be? They could be dangerous to the next person walking down the street.

I just don't remember.

during the first few decades of my life, I don't remember seeing video upon video of elderly or otherwise walking down the street and getting pummeled from behind out of the blue.

For giggles, no other reason.

I mean, wasn't ⁓ oftentimes this is not.

You know, a mugging or for money or...

And that is what is going to happen in communities where the system, starting with law enforcement, which is undermined, and moving on up to prosecutors and cashless bail programs who...

are not going to have a consequence for the individual.

It is not what civilized society should.

be grounded on. Not a good foundation. In my judgment. That's my opinion.

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some communications regarding some of the recent shows I want to share with you as we go to the mailbag and pull out a bit of mail. ⁓ Email in this case, we have a couple of them. First from Dennis. Dennis is writing about episode 414 and says that

Parker, your forceful breakdown of Israel's fight for survival in episode 414 was compelling. I appreciated how you detailed the media's distortion and the ways segments of the Democratic party have knowingly or not contributed to a climate that rewards terror with promises of Palestinian statehood. Framing the situation with reference to failed peace offers,

and UN history brought a clarity that is so often missing from these conversations. And I appreciate that ⁓very much. Dennis, good insights from you. On the other side of the scale, we have an email from Aaron. And Aaron is ⁓ commenting on episode.

Episode 411, which was entitled, What Do We Do With The Morally Bankrupt Question Mark? Episode 411, Aaron says, You have to start asking more difficult questions, Parker.

That might have been a more complex and difficult question 50 or 60 years ago. What do we do with the morally bankrupt? But these days, these days we elect him president of the United States. Let me be clear. He is not immoral. He is amoral. He does not measure anything based on its morality. That might involve self-imposed limits.

He decides what to do based solely on what is best for him or what he wants.

Hmm. Well, you know, that's a view. That's a viewpoint, and it is a viewpoint based on an extreme dislike for, it appears, the character of the President of the United States. Now.

When you listen to our next episode, you will hear me comment in my opinion, whether you agree with the president or not, his policies or not, I am going to comment on his presidency thus far. And I think the title of the next episode will be something like, Boy Does He Have Guts.

And I don't know that anyone can dispute that. I'm sure they would try. Of course, those with the TDS issue of hating Trump no matter if he cured cancer ⁓ will say, ⁓ no, he doesn't have guts. In fact, he's a coward. He's a yellow belly coward and nothing short of it. These actions and policies that he has pressed

are nothing more than a cowardice bully. You know, then we have to debate those. But I'm going to outline what I believe, agree with it or not, whether it has worked or not, and we'll have arguments about the facts related to that, that for this president to have done a number of these things, no other president would do. Now, some on...

The left may say, yeah, there's a reason no one else would do it because it's insane. You know, of course, so, you know, they're going to say that and we can have a debate about that. But whether you agree with the policy or not, I would argue that it is certainly ⁓ gutsy ⁓ is the word, you know, that comes to mind. We'll talk about that on our next episode. That is. ⁓

⁓ Just a couple of ⁓ emails from our mailbag to you and once again go to theandrewparkershow.com. our YouTube channel as well and subscribe, ⁓ follow and like. Thank you for joining us for this episode of the Andrew Parker Show and until next time, be kind to your neighbor.