Loomer Unleashed - October 28, 2018


Broken Promises - Laura Loomer Reporting From Tent City Minnesota


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Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

125.833336

Word count

1,359

Sentence count

89

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

3

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Tent City is a community of people living in tents on the side of the street in the middle of Minneapolis, MN. They are homeless, drug and alcohol addicted, and in need of a safe place to sleep at night.

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00:01:00.000 You can see we're in the middle of a community here in the middle of Minneapolis.
00:01:04.000 There's trash all over the streets.
00:01:06.000 It's very dirty here.
00:01:11.000 And this is a town that has a leftist mayor, all right?
00:01:16.000 His name is Jacob Fry, and he's endorsed people like Keith Ellison, Ilhan Amar, and other leftists and Somali candidates.
00:01:26.000 So this is the entrance to Tent City.
00:01:28.000 We're going to take a look inside and see what's going on and why people have decided to set up a Tent City in the middle of Minneapolis, why there's so many people here, and why they've decided to live in tents.
00:01:49.000 We're just independent media.
00:01:51.000 We just came to check things out and find out why people have decided to gather here and set up tents because there hasn't really been much media coverage of the tent city and we're just interested in finding out why people are here.
00:02:04.000 Oh, well, for one, everybody here is homeless.
00:02:08.000 Homeless.
00:02:10.000 And or drug addicted, drug and alcohol related.
00:02:13.000 Okay.
00:02:16.000 Yeah.
00:02:17.000 We're just looking for housing.
00:02:18.000 Housing.
00:02:19.000 Yeah.
00:02:19.000 We're looking for affordable housing.
00:02:22.000 Indians are all about extended family. 1.00
00:02:25.000 And I think we're just getting a bad rap.
00:02:30.000 Somalians came here and they got all kinds of free money and housing went up, condos went up, and yet here we are. 0.97
00:02:37.000 Native Americans native to this land.
00:02:39.000 We still, we have one project.
00:02:42.000 We're still in line waiting for affordable, decent housing without cockroaches and gang-related issues.
00:02:54.000 It just boggles my mind that we got Somalians here that come from a different country and they get bumped right up to the front of the Section 8 list when we're still waiting two, three years down the line yet.
00:03:06.000 Own house has gone to many of us.
00:03:07.000 We're struggling right now.
00:03:09.000 Vehicles, food stamps, cash.
00:03:13.000 How long have you been homeless for?
00:03:26.000 I've been homeless two and a half years.
00:03:29.000 And do you think that all the aid here is going to the Somalis who are coming and being brought in by the Democrats?
00:03:35.000 Oh, for sure, yeah.
00:03:36.000 I tried to claim refugee status.
00:03:38.000 The federal government controls our blood front.
00:03:40.000 I'm on the reservation. 0.97
00:03:42.000 You can't be a refugee unless your government's trying to kill you. 0.95
00:03:47.000 I was denied.
00:03:49.000 So I fled the reservations to try to come find work and a better future for my children.
00:03:57.000 All of a sudden, like somebody gets a federal allotment for me being alive, but yet right here, here, there's nothing.
00:04:05.000 Yeah, so I know that the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frye, he's actually endorsed Ilhan O'Marr, who's a Somali woman who's running for office.
00:04:14.000 And he promised that he was going to get everybody here in the Tenth City housing by the end of September.
00:04:19.000 Well, it's the end of September, and you guys don't have housing, and he's just endorsing Somali candidates. 0.96
00:04:25.000 Has he come back to the Tenth City to give you guys an update on whether it's a huge number?
00:04:29.000 Oh, yeah, no, he hasn't.
00:04:30.000 We had to hear about it in the paper, and I don't expect him to come back here.
00:04:34.000 They want to move us to a different location, but again, it's just going to be a trail of tears.
00:04:39.000 We don't want to move.
00:04:40.000 We want to get into housing right from here.
00:04:43.000 So, once we move, they're just going to keep moving us and moving us.
00:04:47.000 And then people just keep dying here of drugs and alcohol and heroin.
00:04:53.000 And the cops know it, and they're not putting a stop to it.
00:04:58.000 Nobody's being arrested.
00:05:00.000 And if you could tell the mayor of Minneapolis anything, if you could send him a message, what would it be?
00:05:06.000 We ain't going nowhere anytime soon.
00:05:08.000 So each and every one of these people are in an affordable housing.
00:05:26.000 So it looks like there's even children who are living here too because there's children's bikes and children's toys.
00:05:33.000 And it appears to be mostly Native Americans here in the community who are not getting the social services that they need or the social services that have been promised to them by the Democrats in the state of Minnesota.
00:05:45.000 People like the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, who's campaigning alongside leftists and Somali candidates like Ilhan Omar.
00:05:53.000 He's endorsed Ilhan Omar and they're just giving all the social service money to Somalian refugees or people who are just being imported from faraway lands and they're not even taking care of the people who live here in Minnesota.
00:06:07.000 Why are the Democrats in Minnesota bringing in so many people from Somalia and other places, giving them refugee status and then giving them the services that should be going to people like the people here in this community who are now forced to live in tents on the side of the side of the street?
00:06:25.000 You can see it's not a very safe situation and it's pretty cold out here right now and it's probably going to start snowing in about a month or two.
00:06:33.000 So what are they going to do when it starts to snow here?
00:06:59.000 My name is Laura.
00:07:00.000 What do you do?
00:07:00.000 My name's Mike.
00:07:01.000 Mike, what do you think is the biggest problem?
00:07:03.000 Why is it that you see other individuals living in Minnesota who are given kind of expediated public housing, sectioning housing and social services, but why is it that they've neglected the Native American community?
00:07:16.000 we get a lot of complaints from our residents here about that you know
00:07:50.000 The medical tent is what, 200, 300 feet away from this.
00:07:55.000 And if they really are medical professionals, then they should know that that's a very unsanitary situation, very dangerous situation to have needles just out in the open on the side and an open container where people could trip over them, they could accidentally prick themselves,
00:08:35.000 The last I counted was 104 tenths and that was about a week ago.
00:08:48.000 Now I count there's almost over 130 tents here.
00:08:51.000 Once it hit the news and reporting of this with the mayor and a woman of a state legislative, the senator, Patricia Ray Torres.
00:09:04.000 Patricia Ray Torres.
00:09:05.000 Yes.
00:09:06.000 She came out here promising things.
00:09:08.000 She actually came here to pick a group of us up of 13 people to go and vote and particularly to vote for her supposedly.
00:09:15.000 Like I said, she come here promising things.
00:09:18.000 You know, we're going to get you housing, we're going to get you a house, you know, we're going to get you a place to live.
00:09:24.000 You need running water, you need toilets and so forth like that, sewage.
00:09:29.000 And like I said, she promised these things to us saying, you know, they're going to bump us up on Section 8.
00:09:35.000 So what did the mayor say?
00:09:36.000 You said the mayor came here.
00:09:38.000 The mayor came here too, more or less.
00:09:41.000 He was supposed to walk through.
00:09:43.000 He never did.
00:09:44.000 He only stayed in the front, which was only one or two tents.
00:09:47.000 And they showed him being a video camera and taping of him handing us food and whatnot.
00:09:55.000 Well, the food he bring, vague lunches, was only enough for maybe six, seven people.
00:10:01.000 You know, there was over 20 of us here.
00:10:03.000 And I walked down there and said, well, where's the mayor at?
00:10:06.000 You know, and he was already gone.
00:10:08.000 You know, the mayor and the chief of police were here.
00:10:12.000 Yep, he was here.
00:10:13.000 This is the result of Democrat policies here in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
00:10:17.000 You can see in the distance at the end of Tenth City, it's a little bit easier.
00:10:22.000 So as you can see, Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, is definitely enabling this situation.
00:10:28.000 It's Kent City to be positioned here on the side of the highway.
00:10:32.000 And it's directly across from the child's playground.
00:10:35.000 Pretty dangerous and concerning situation.
00:10:37.000 I mean, we showed you the needles.
00:10:40.000 We interviewed people who told you firsthand, told us firsthand that there is drug use here.
00:10:46.000 Why is it that they're allowing this to continue?