In which we are reminded that societies don’t fall to outside conquest as often as they collapse due to self-inflicted suicidal retardery:
The Minneapolis Police Department has just sworn in its first non-citizen officer, in addition to its first Somali female officer.
Ikran Mohamed and Lesly Vera were among nearly two dozen officers who were recently onboarded to join the police force, with the former being the department’s first Somali female to be recruited and the latter being the first non-citizen officer. The report states that Vera is originally from Mexico but has resided in the US since she was 4 years old, calling Minneapolis her ‘home’ despite never becoming a citizen.
According to ABC News, MPD Chief Brian O’Hara cited a new change in the law, which now states that a ‘permanent resident’ who is a non-citizen can join the police department. “There may be people who question it, but that’s completely ridiculous.“
This should turn out about as well as the “first Somali police officer” and the “first Somali to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Agency” have.
- Mohamed Noor’s arrival as the first Somali-American officer in his Minneapolis police precinct was celebrated three years ago as a cultural bridge, a way of building trust between the police and the city’s large refugee population. The mayor even attended a welcome ceremony for him. Mr. Noor was sentenced to about 12 and a half years in a Minnesota prison for the death of Justine Ruszczyk, an unarmed woman he killed while on patrol in 2017.
- Somalian immigrant to the U.S. who chaired the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) pled guilty to federal wire fraud charges on Wednesday. Sharmarke Issa of Edina, 40, facilitated a money laundering operation and gained millions through fake vendors for the Feeding Our Future (FOF) scam, according to prosecutors.
I don’t know exactly how things will go catastrophically wrong with these two ground-breaking new officers in the Minneapolis Police Department. But I’m very, very confident that they will.