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Jordan Leick
@beacon.bsky.social
😁 Minneapolis booster
🌇 CLIC appointee, OpenStreetMap editor
👢taller than necessary
Ah.. I thought I had read that 2 people were shot in the incident with the Venezuelan immigrant being chased. I’ll re-post.
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Even the previous statement by her is a lie. Minneapolis homicides were down 16% in 2025. MN homicides as a whole were also down significantly.
January 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Backs up to create space then goes around him. No “flail” seen in video. He is clear before first shot occurs. That’s is all that matters. Zero reasonable fear for his safety at that point. Say one more false thing and I’m blocking you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Here’s the moment of the first shot. Her wheel is clearly turned away from him. He is not in danger, and has no justification for shooting. That’s murder and will be prosecuted as such.
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
You should learn the difference between “toward” and “past”. ICE agent has to lean forward and fully extend to shoot her from the side of her vehicle as she went past.

If you haven’t actually watched the clear video, you should.
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Average for the previous 3 years is 4 shooting victims by Jan 6th.
January 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
💯. I’m hoping that this new park board will work better with other government partners!
December 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My take: the new design could have been done with the $1m in County funding *if* the MPRB board had advocated for this compromise design.

Instead, they voted down any change, their hand was forced by soil contamination, MPRB has to pay for it all, and we get a path multiple years late.
December 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The big issue is how to have abundant public restrooms that don’t get totally destroyed by the 0.01% of people who use them improperly. The “high tech” is how to stop those people from using them once they misbehave, in a non-creepy way. You can read about Throne Labs’ approach.
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thank you, I love the results!
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Awesome!! What rough area of town, if you’re willing to share?
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If it was East African kids from out of town bringing guns to Dinkytown and being part of a shooting homicide, are you arguing it’s wrong to say so publicly? Or is it the “not the poor kids who live in Minneapolis” part of his comments?
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Closest park to Dinkytown. Also a small park, so “dinky” fits.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Btw, working full-time at minimum wage in Minneapolis gets you >$30k/year. My apartment costs $10k/year. So at least in Minneapolis, that number doesn’t really make any sense unless the person is unemployed or retired, or maybe the sole provider for larger family that needs much more space?
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sorry, I didn’t mean to get away from my main point, that recent Minneapolis development helped keep housing costs down here. NYC hasn’t had that. Most of the US hasn’t had that. They should! I know that healthcare and childcare and transportation costs are super high. Extremely important to address
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
That’s a misuse of the word recession then: “a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a broad decline in economic activity”. There has been no such decline, consumer spending is up since 2022.

Re Trump, ppl were mad about some prices up, even though their incomes were up even more.
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Enabling the building of thousands of new units of student housing much closer to campus directly impacted demand for the units in my apartment complex.

Are you really arguing that we’ve been in a recession of the last 3 years? That’s undeniably false.
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Cool! I feel like that’s exactly how it should work. People who want brand new nice apartments pay a premium, while budget options are available to those who want that instead.

In cities/areas where they don’t build new housing, more people have to compete for the old units, driving up those rents
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM