The crime is too horrific to engage in schadenfreude. I wish the Vice Chair of the Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (our version of the Democrat Party in MN) the very best and a speedy recovery from both her mental and physical trauma.
But I cannot refrain from commenting, because the carjacking and vicious beating of Shivanthi Sathanandan outside her home in Minneapolis (in front of her kids and neighbors!) by armed thugs is the direct result of her and her party’s policies–and it was entirely predictable and predicted.
We warned everybody this would happen. It was obvious it would happen. And now that the lives of everybody have been made worse no “oops, my bad” is enough. Every Leftist and Democrat who pushed for the abolishment of the police and the decriminalization of almost every crime in the city should resign in shame and apologize to their neighbors.
Remember after people like Shivanthi Sathanandan screamed to dismantle the @MinneapolisPD,
her actions gave rise to a diminished and deflated police force and an unprecedented rise in violent crime and carjackings that we’re still reeling from today?Pepperidge Farm remembers. pic.twitter.com/rsrb9NXda3
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) September 7, 2023
So what, exactly, happened?
One of the vice chairs of the Minnesota DFL Party says she was violently carjacked in front of her children in the driveway of her Minneapolis home Tuesday.
“Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight,” DFL Second Vice Chair Shivanthi Sathanandan wrote in a public Facebook post, which included a picture of her face after the alleged assault.
“Look at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the sh$t beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, ‘let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away.’ This is the face of a mother who just listened to her four-year-old daughter screaming non-stop, her seven-year-old son wailing for someone to come help because bad guys are murdering his Mama in the backyard, her neighbors screaming in outrage … all while being beaten with guns and kicks and fists,” she said.
Sathanandan said she suffered a broken leg, deep lacerations to her head, and several bruises and cuts.
“And I have rage. These men knew what they were doing. I have NO DOUBT they have done this before. Yet they are still on OUR STREETS. Killing mothers. Giving babies psychological trauma that a lifetime of therapy cannot erase. With no hesitation and no remorse,” she said.
Sathanandan, who expressed support for dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department in June 2020, then called for tougher penalties for juvenile offenders.
Yes, she is right about the thugs. That is exactly who they are, and her rage is entirely appropriate.
Yet she and the Democrat Party, BLM, and all the Leftist allies completely ignored the cries of rage from all the new crime victims–including the people whose lives were ruined during the George Floyd riots and the terror that has followed the inevitable increase in crime caused by their demands.
Minneapolis policing has collapsed. There are times when the 4th Precinct–a crime-ridden area of the city in which I live–has only two police cars protecting the entire area.
The Democrats did that. Sathanandan did that.
Of course that doesn’t mean she “deserved” what happened, just as New York City doesn’t deserve to be destroyed by the influx of illegal aliens.
But they did ASK for it, claiming that following the policies they proposed would make things better and viciously attacking those of us who cried in anguish as they did so.
Time and again the Left pushes policies that ruin things and kill people. Life gets worse. And they never repent. They continue to claim their superior wisdom and virtue as they leave a path of destruction in their wake.
Our “Defund the Police” advocate–and she was very much a part of the movement and as you can see not a powerless one as she is now a Vice Chair of the DFL–is now calling for vengeance.
We need to get illegal guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM,” she said. “Look at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
I don’t think her rage is performative or political, and as I said she absolutely deserves our well wishes. Nobody should have to go through this.
But it is beyond disappointing that she is demanding justice for herself after YEARS of denying it to others–and insulting them for demanding it.
If she were serious about her change of heart she would denounce the BLM movement and the activists who have ruined our city and her life.
I am confident that she will not. Nor will she or anyone else apologize for accusing those of us who opposed the destructive policies forced upon the city as racists.
I wish her well, but won’t forgive her until she apologizes to those she slandered for saying then what she is now saying herself.
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