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The Velveteen Ocelot

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4. The Minneapolis police union sold those shirts

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 16, 2019, 02:39 PM

Oct 2019

when the cops were told they couldn't wear their uniforms at the rally (unless they were on duty). Despite the city's majority Dem population, the MPD has been a bastion of racist assholery for decades.

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Excellent letter about the "Cops for Trump" [View all] question everything Oct 2019 OP

Pfft ... probably none of them were local cops ... this IS Trump we're talking about here, right? mr_lebowski Oct 2019 #1

I thought the exact same thing when I saw those JanetLovesObama Oct 2019 #2

The Minneapolis police union sold those shirts The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #4

Who have been chafing under a gay woman and now an African American man question everything Oct 2019 #10

Plus, most MPD don't live within the city limits geardaddy Oct 2019 #12

There was. dflprincess Oct 2019 #13

Very real, the head of the Minneapolis police union question everything Oct 2019 #5

Understand most of those Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #3

No. See above two responses. question everything Oct 2019 #6

Okay,did not think the divide Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #8

We should remember that the Minneapolis Police Union sold "Cops for Trump" t-shirts progree Oct 2019 #7

Kroll is the worse thing that every happened to the MPD dflprincess Oct 2019 #14

Years ago I ask a State Trooper I knew here in PA Kaiserguy Oct 2019 #9

Bravo, April! Can someone in Minneapolis tell her to look at DU so she'll know she went Karadeniz Oct 2019 #11