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Oct. 28, 2018 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer
10:48
Broken Promises - Laura Loomer Reporting From Tent City Minnesota
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You can see we're in the middle of a community here in the middle of Minneapolis.
There's trash all over the streets.
It's very dirty here.
And this is a town that has a leftist mayor, all right?
His name is Jacob Fry, and he's endorsed people like Keith Ellison, Ilhan Amar, and other leftists and Somali candidates.
So this is the entrance to Tent City.
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.
We're just independent media.
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.
Oh, well, for one, everybody here is homeless.
Homeless.
And or drug addicted, drug and alcohol related.
Okay.
Yeah.
We're just looking for housing.
Housing.
Yeah.
We're looking for affordable housing.
Indians are all about extended family.
And I think we're just getting a bad rap.
Somalians came here and they got all kinds of free money and housing went up, condos went up, and yet here we are.
Native Americans native to this land.
We still, we have one project.
We're still in line waiting for affordable, decent housing without cockroaches and gang-related issues.
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.
Own house has gone to many of us.
We're struggling right now.
Vehicles, food stamps, cash.
How long have you been homeless for?
I've been homeless two and a half years.
And do you think that all the aid here is going to the Somalis who are coming and being brought in by the Democrats?
Oh, for sure, yeah.
I tried to claim refugee status.
The federal government controls our blood front.
I'm on the reservation.
You can't be a refugee unless your government's trying to kill you.
I was denied.
So I fled the reservations to try to come find work and a better future for my children.
All of a sudden, like somebody gets a federal allotment for me being alive, but yet right here, here, there's nothing.
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.
And he promised that he was going to get everybody here in the Tenth City housing by the end of September.
Well, it's the end of September, and you guys don't have housing, and he's just endorsing Somali candidates.
Has he come back to the Tenth City to give you guys an update on whether it's a huge number?
Oh, yeah, no, he hasn't.
We had to hear about it in the paper, and I don't expect him to come back here.
They want to move us to a different location, but again, it's just going to be a trail of tears.
We don't want to move.
We want to get into housing right from here.
So, once we move, they're just going to keep moving us and moving us.
And then people just keep dying here of drugs and alcohol and heroin.
And the cops know it, and they're not putting a stop to it.
Nobody's being arrested.
And if you could tell the mayor of Minneapolis anything, if you could send him a message, what would it be?
We ain't going nowhere anytime soon.
So each and every one of these people are in an affordable housing.
So it looks like there's even children who are living here too because there's children's bikes and children's toys.
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.
People like the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, who's campaigning alongside leftists and Somali candidates like Ilhan Omar.
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.
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?
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.
So what are they going to do when it starts to snow here?
My name is Laura.
What do you do?
My name's Mike.
Mike, what do you think is the biggest problem?
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?
we get a lot of complaints from our residents here about that you know
The medical tent is what, 200, 300 feet away from this.
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,
The last I counted was 104 tenths and that was about a week ago.
Now I count there's almost over 130 tents here.
Once it hit the news and reporting of this with the mayor and a woman of a state legislative, the senator, Patricia Ray Torres.
Patricia Ray Torres.
Yes.
She came out here promising things.
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.
Like I said, she come here promising things.
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.
You need running water, you need toilets and so forth like that, sewage.
And like I said, she promised these things to us saying, you know, they're going to bump us up on Section 8.
So what did the mayor say?
You said the mayor came here.
The mayor came here too, more or less.
He was supposed to walk through.
He never did.
He only stayed in the front, which was only one or two tents.
And they showed him being a video camera and taping of him handing us food and whatnot.
Well, the food he bring, vague lunches, was only enough for maybe six, seven people.
You know, there was over 20 of us here.
And I walked down there and said, well, where's the mayor at?
You know, and he was already gone.
You know, the mayor and the chief of police were here.
Yep, he was here.
This is the result of Democrat policies here in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
You can see in the distance at the end of Tenth City, it's a little bit easier.
So as you can see, Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, is definitely enabling this situation.
It's Kent City to be positioned here on the side of the highway.
And it's directly across from the child's playground.
Pretty dangerous and concerning situation.
I mean, we showed you the needles.
We interviewed people who told you firsthand, told us firsthand that there is drug use here.
Why is it that they're allowing this to continue?
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