A few days ago in Minneapolis a man driving a Cadillac Escalade speeding over 100 MPH exited a freeway without slowing down, ran a red light and t-boned a Honda Civic at the first intersection. Inside that car and killed immediately were five Somali 17-20 year old young women, some of the best and brightest of their generation- two Edina high school graduates (top school in the state) and two accepted at the U of M, all over achievers. Surviving and fleeing from the scene was the hit and run drive who tried to hide out a nearby Taco Bell. Well in the aftermath we learned that the driver of the vehicle was none other than Derrick Thompson, age 27, son of the firebrand congressman John Thompson of district 67A.

Anyone who watched closely might remember John Thompson as the Minneapolis politician who brought a racist mob to terrorize the suburb of Hugo Minnesota in the aftermath of the George Floyd boogaloo, threatening to burn down the white people's neighborhoods;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdPPVhIjU8M

Even after that, the democrats circled the wagons and still supported him, at least for a few months until he again made the news for whipping his dick out in front of children, driving with a suspended sentence, committing five domestic assaults between 2003 and 2011 that came to light, and obstructing justice at a hospital. Finally the democrats voted to expel him after that, but he refused to leave office until last year's election ousted him in an 89-11 primary challenge. Of course, its worth pointing out that during his election just two years earlier, John Thompson was endorsed by the state DFL, other congressmen and women and the democrats on the city council.
But Thompson himself doesn't matter, or even his son in this case, as much as the policies they believed in and the Democrats still do, policies amplified after George Floyd and the results we see today

Because as it turns out, Derrick Thompson was the beneficiary of the same policies his father supported. He already had numerous drug, violence, gang and vehicle felonies. He had a felony fleeing, false info to police, felony drugs, felony gun without a permit for benefit of a gang and with a scrubbed serial- all magically reduced and plead down to zero jail time in all cases combined. And in 2018, Derrick Thompson struck and mangled a woman in a hit-and-run in California before fleeing back to Minnesota. She barely survived, with permanent brain injuries after weeks in a coma, losing the ability to walk or eat. He also had 17 lbs of marijuana and $20,000 in cash in the vehicle, and with all the obvious numerous felonies he was extradited and convicted in 2020 and sentenced to 8 years in prison, with credit for time in custody awaiting trial. And yet despite California law mandating 85% of a violent felony sentence be served before parole, which says he shouldn't be released until at least 2025- Thompson was once again magically and inexplicably spared most of his sentence and released early this year and nobody seems to know why;



Well he was still on probation for his prior felonies when he was released without ever having his probation revoked, because that makes sense. And then when still on probation for that hit and run, he was convicted just last month again for driving with a revoked license and speeding- issued a fine and no jail time. And here we are, with five of the best and brightest high school and college girls from the Somali community wiped out by him driving a rental truck twice the size of their vehicle, twice the speed limit and running a red light.



Turn out, when you elect violent criminals, they pass laws in support of violent criminals. So that's just one slice of the George Floyd era.

George Floyd was a drug addict who once put a shotgun to a pregnant womans belly.

Sounds like he would have made a great congressman

to be fair to you goomshill I did read your post.

I think most average Americans are tired of the hearing about racism and crime.
You'll likely find that the other 49 states don't think California is on the right track.
We can take a step back from your points and see the theft under a certain value wasn't punishable in SF, CA for example.

Idk about you but I don't know anybody in real life who agrees with letting off criminal activity with a slap on the wrist.

the classic trope of the politician's son being a deadbeat

and yet we're going to opposite direction. MN just passed a bill aimed at letting felons out of prison early by giving them credits. DA Mary Moriarty was elected on a platform that explicitly said she would avoid imprisoning teenagers for violent felonies, and immediately put it into practice by giving a slap on the wrist to a teenager who broke into a woman's home and shot her to death in cold blood in a targeted hit arranged by her ex boyfriend. The fact is that instead of aiming to protect the civil liberties of people accused of crimes or give potential criminals more opportunities for a real job and crack down on the drug gangs that offer an alternative- Democrats have pushed for reducing punishments for convicted criminals. To the point that non-violent felonies don't even get any prison time at all and violent felons get released in a matter of months.

In a some publicized cases, we had black mothers begging the police to arrest their kids after they committed carjackings at gunpoint and were spun loose immediately. They'd call the parents up and tell them they have to take their kids home, even when the parents want them straightened out in juvie or prison. Well, I think if John Thompson ever got that call he'd just tell his boy not to get caught the next time.

Ok

Dudes shitty and his father is shitty

And?

The 'and' is soft on crime policies have real consequences, in this case deadly consequences with 5 young lives snuffed out. The system failed to identify this suspect as a general threat to society, even though he has a huge rap sheet.

In a fair world the people responsible for putting him back on the streets should be held accountable, at the very least losing their jobs, but doubt that happens.

the real crime is totalling that Honda Civic. It had at least 200k more miles to drive, cut down in it's prime.

RIP tho to the 5 Hermione Granger somali pirates.

On a real note this similar thing happened to a family i know. full family vacation with aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Way home from dinner parents took 1 car, kids took another. drunk driver going 100 crossed and hit them head on, 4-5 kids died either immediately or shortly after, 1 kid in ICU for a few weeks and survived but never the same. Dad is a drunk now wandering around town from bar to bar pissed up 24-7. Mom is in a midlife crisis mode and trying to find direction. Can't even fathom getting that phone call. especially because drunky died instantly so there's not even the slightest chance of reprieve from a conviction.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jun 21 2023 08:48am

I mean, the system recognized he was a threat, he was tried and convicted repeatedly. He was sentenced to prison and under the mandatory minimum he should still have been in prison and unable to kill them.
The democrats have made this their great social cause, to allow criminals to victimize the public with no repercussions, to free the criminals already in prison, to refuse to imprison those convicted even of violent felonies.
And his father was right at the front of that movement.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 21 2023 08:48am