Minneapolis council member argues with activist after meeting

A Minneapolis council committee meeting over homeless encampments turned heated on Wednesday as council members debated homeless encampments.
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[@anitadunn1491]

Our Minneapolis council is inept, has been for years.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

This lady should have never been voted in behaving this way, “white people don’t talk to me” there’s a solution.

[@maxrshelltrack7443]

Here we go with the race card 🙄.

[@premiumGenX]

Angry black woman alert

[@dannyc6166]

Drugs are a health problem & needs to be treated as a health problem, not a criminal problem.

[@mariopuzo4509]

Her initial compassion is admirable. That was short lived when it’s overshadowed by racism.

[@premiumGenX]

Angry black woman alert

[@USMC-cv5sd]

​@premiumGenX White people don't talk to me. You are proximity Harbaugh and Donald Trump fans. 😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@navydoc47]

Did she really say white people dont talk to me.

[@PutinGayTwin]

She also said….if you don’t live in the camp.

[@gruntmezera123]

She has some real issues with White people. It's well documented.

[@Gigi-fp8pd]

Yeah bc it was a bunch of white liberals trying to shout her down

[@gruntmezera123]

Vetaw seems like she has some problematic views about her White citizens.

[@kennethbiebighauser7984]

But you didnt live in Berlin...1945 ...nor Warsaw Poland ..1944-44 '....dont appear to have Malaria ...not living in Cameroon or Saudi Arabia ....your alive. ..quite sure adequate food shelter . Didnt spend time in Soviet Labor Camp 1930s ....your in Minnesota ...id be very thankful ...oh yes .......say what you wanna say ??!!!Disrespect the public...?? Boy are you Oppresed!!!

[@lazynow1]

all this diversity is so great......and watching the diversity eat each other is wonderful......

[@columbotee2652]

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are. - Ecclesiastes 10:2-3.

[@dianemalone7416]

What a racist people like that. Keep it going it’s ridiculous. We should all get along and don’t judge people by their color.

[@kevinsamuelsfans1190]

LaTrisha Vetaw is the only one who truly comprehends the struggles of homelessness, addiction, and the dire situations faced. None of these issues should lead to the surrender of city property to be held hostage by drug addicts. Drug dealers and addicts, in their control of properties, intensify criminal activities like home invasions, business robberies, and even endanger the lives of innocent people on the streets. The entire city is becoming increasingly unsafe, making it perilous for people to carry out simple tasks like buying something in the market or going about their daily lives.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

Prove that these people are committing those acts you speak of, youre using hyperbolic rhetoric against poor homeless people who in fact the majority of them rightfully own this land we’re all on, if they wanted to they could fight and take it back and there’d be nothing you could do then stop short of killing them and if you do that there will be more than just a city wanting you held accountable to the fullest extent of the law, what are you going to do about it? Perhaps Kevin you don’t belong in Minnesota and should find a home elsewhere, I heard FL is doing well and Texas just go there, maybe you can help your fellow neo nazi brothers and “pick me” sisters to try and fight for what’s left of your precious border because that’s coming down too pretty soon, see what you and others who believe their superior to others and have been living fat for a long time can’t seem to understand that this is what happens when you gentrify an entire section of the city, this is what it looks like after a housing market crash and an economy tanking on multiple fronts, this is late stage capitalisms outcome, no one wants to be on deadly drugs, no one likes being so heavily dependent on alcohol that they’d drink rubbing alcohol to take away the shakes, no one enjoys sleeping in the freezing cold, the programs in place you clearly have no idea how they work and what the process even is in Minnesota to be rehoused and rehabilitated so spare me the bs neo nazi rhetoric.

[@premiumGenX]

Angry black woman alert

[@whansandceros]

Love is the only way to fix these problems and break the cycle. What is causing us to hate? What is causing us to give up?

[@amandajackson.83]

This is what *_"love"_* is to me: It's better mental health care (free, in the case of the US - it's inhumane that it's not), improved social housing, and better addiction and recovery services. The decriminalization of these substances has proven many times over profound and positive effects and there are also amazing results from safe supply programs and groups in terms of reducing use, decreasing ODs, and making it easier to quit. Until societies have the proper infrastructure to support people with addictions and decrease homelessness, politicians are just putting bandaids on the problem. Unfortunately, too many people would rather watch our fellow humans die than allocate the funds to prevent it. *_Money_* and *_fear,_* are what is _"causing us to hate",_ along with the persistent lack of self-education, overall decrease of individual introspection and self-reflection, and personal rejection of empathy.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

Maybe we all do need to contact this woman since she believes her personal experience trumps the experience of these people, remind her of the efforts being made to rehouse, rehabilitate and restore these peoples lives in the ways left that are possible for them, she sounds like she knows what it’s like but she has been far removed from what it would be like to even have a relative in drug or alcohol remission.

[@Sam-kp7ti]

Love LaTrisha Vetaw!

[@jonmunch3298]

We'll never fix the addiction epidemic. Just let them go. They made their choice.

[@AmySchweitzer-p5z]

Everyone is worth saving! Even the broken!

[@mariopuzo4509]

Spoken like an asshole sitting in the filth of ignorance

[@mjsocks5929]

They just going through trauma we gotta save ourselves

[@AmySchweitzer-p5z]

This is the problem today, people turn a blind eye on this situation. Wow, this lady deserves an applause! Thankgod someone is standing up for these broken people.

[@kennethbiebighauser7984]

Hey LATRISHA !!! you want Cholera....Typhus ..Typhoid Fever !! Move in with them !! They come to Minnesota for the FREE GOODIES....

[@paulam.foreman4413]

Cops know about addiction , stop saying nobody realizes.

[@Agent77X]

A black comedy here!😮

[@LynnDeatherage-q3k]

Actvist shut up and let them kicked you out of the city hall. You activist is accurate really hard to listen to him.

[@LSPRO_Official]

Thank you Fox9 for providing coverage between the gavels.

[@One--Up]

Whoopty-do!

[@LynnMoore-vd7jm]

We need to speak up it's the truth

[@chucksurgeonertribute2113]

Does anyone in all of Minneapolis have GED or grade 12?

[@ladydiana6745]

Home schooled by gnats!

[@melanieallen8406]

This isn't about Northside!

[@Acollectorsessentials]

This lady is bastardizing the word racism. She’s brought the sense of a civil war with her to this meeting, this isn’t about black people for once, it’s about a small group of people huddled for survival primarily Native Americans, and I walked those camps all three, I’m just a guy that lives in the neighborhood and I don’t harbor guilt, from what? Not everyone helping is white or named Chavez which is incredibly racist to say that he’s apart of some effort to hurt the people who have to reside in this camp.

[@ryneanderson8254]

You are missing her point. She is talking about the complacency as related to the conditions of the camps. She is also talking about disrespect given towards city workers who are clocking in and doing their jobs as they are instructed. She is talking about people perpetuating an idea that could be detrimental to the entire community - especially people suffering from addiction/homeless/mental illness. The opposing dialogue on this subject is needed and will create better results and outcomes. CM Vetaw is looking at the issue from multiple perspectives and I recommend Jason Chavez do the same.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ryneanderson8254 you’re making up a point that suites your narrative for her, she’s a grown elected politician she is able to use her words without the public having to speak up for her, you may try and insult me and others in the comments by backing such immature behavior but what she was doing to is not creating solutions it’s creating media fodder to make it appear even more so how no one in MPLS especially black and brown people can work together which is a complete bullshit lie, natives and blacks and indigenous peoples have been getting the shaft for decades and all we’ve done is blame each other, scapegoat one another, DEFEND EACH OTHERS MISBEHAVIOR rather than call it out for what it is, USING THEIR TACTICS AGAINST OUR VERY OWN PEOPLE, please tell me @ryananderson8254 ? And with a name like Anderson or “Ryan” you sound like the problem bro you should not be involving yourself in theses matters, you know nothing period hands down full stop about what it means to have those who resemble you and are actually related to you be subjected to live a life of such constant discomfort don’t try and keyboard warrior your way into a conversation you have zero stake in, I’m not just a neighbor I’m a pissed off Mexican that is tired of seeing those that resemble me and all other non Caucasian people be placed in such horrendous conditions so people that resemble you get to live high and mighty. I will say this on the what the city rep was saying and that’s that non melanin folk have no place in this movement but to be Picketing and showing up to the rallies and if you can’t accept that then you’re not an ally and you’re actually actively apart of the problem, so next time you come at me Ryan come correct cause 1 you don’t even fuckin know me and two don’t involve yourself in affairs that don’t directly affect you and if you do know your role bro because these aren’t the kind of moments where they want any kind of white saviors. That days done and gone.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ryneanderson8254 if you believe there’s complacency at that camp you’ve never been there or even spoken to the people who have no other choice but to live in such deplorable conditions, some of you may think because the media coverage has put it out there that the majority of these people don’t mind living this way and that they’d be ok living there forever WRONG AGAIN , there might be one or two people that actually enjoy living in yurks but others prefer the same privileges us as everyday American citizens get to enjoy, what’s the problem with that? If the city and or county own the land why can’t it be given back to a native America tribe to allow healing to take place on those grounds and allow those grounds to become a healing place for all human beings, perhaps the old precent needs to be turned into a housing facility, hell every broken down abandoned building we can reopen RIGHT NOW and give all these people a home, but it has more to do with than just housing, you know that in MPLS most apartments won’t rent to an ex homeless person due to the criteria involved in renting to someone with a foggy background let alone probably has no money no job nothing, so they have to be placed in these homes that require you to be clean already in advance by at least 30 days before that you have to enter treatment, YO THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN AN OPIOID EPIDEMIC WHO DO YOU THINK THATS GOING TO EFFECT THE MOST, non white communities primarily that’s who’s been mostly effected. MPLS doesn’t get to choose who’s clean and who’s not, who gets to live in peace and who doesn’t, there’s other problems that need solving first, removing people from their habitats is not a solution, it is maybe for the cold hearted and selfish and wicked but for those with their soul still intact these people need our help, I’m just a guy down the street, but these people they are us, they are our neighbor, our fellow employee, our teachers our friends and our family. They are us, what kind of people are we if not to find solutions for those in need? “Ask not what your country can do for you but what can you do for your country”

[@ryneanderson8254]

The complacency rests in the idea that the camps should be left to remain in operation - despite the health and safety concerns for all residents. Some view they should, some view they should not. Most Minneapolis residents view it with compassion. You and anyone like you are not the moral authority of compassion for thinking one way over another...

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ryneanderson8254 you’re delusional thinking isn’t effecting me one bit

[@Poordirtfarmer]

👀

[@v.a.993]

I like her!

[@Eleanor-l2h]

Give it up

[@kinda_cringe_gaming]

Thank you for speaking the truth Vetaw! I agree 💯. Chavez was in the wrong for interrupting you to begin with.

[@cruisyguy]

Chavez is punk, smart mouthed thinks his highway is the only highway, grow up.

[@thomascoleman6322]

Yay diversity Yay muh democracy When I retire it’s either going to be Idaho or Iceland 🇮🇸🤷‍♀️🤡😜😱😭✊🏿💩

[@iMatti00]

Ummm, I don’t know if you’re having trouble with that organ between your ears or what. But first this has nothing to do a diversity, and second place is full of light complected people have had similar drama. I just don’t see it as much because most of the places around this country do not live stream there a council meetings, and in the past nobody did.

[@MJHAZE]

Why the does council member patronize a certain race based on their skin color?

[@thomasj3701]

Twins fest is getting weird!

[@Acollectorsessentials]

The guy who can’t take shit serious has made it to the comments

[@thomasj3701]

@@Acollectorsessentials Thanks for the announcement. Appreciate the time you took out.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@thomasj3701 hey no problem 👍🏽

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@thomasj3701 👎🏽

[@thomasj3701]

@@Acollectorsessentials 🥱

[@Eleanor-l2h]

Trump 2024❤❤🎉🎉

[@karenforbes2081]

The first council meeting turned into a protest, the meeting I thought was out of control. The brat or the council prez didn't shush them. No they were allowed to loudly protest. Then fellow brat socialist Robin told the comrades to calm down. But a fellow CM who was the former chair of this committee isn't allowed to speak her mind. What a rude chair who doesn't know how to fairly run a meeting.

[@johnstoner666]

Comrades psh lol

[@kennethbiebighauser7984]

Move to No Korea or Red China Latrisha...you can go off there ...

[@ianhansing]

There's nothing i love more than a smart and compassionate person who stands their ground and doesn't suffer fools. I salute you Ms Vetaw

[@duhmark]

she is not there to make a point, she is there to cover up for Mayor Frey dictating policy from the mayor's office and doing so poorly

[@ianhansing]

@@duhmark please tell me more about this woman's lived experience, and how you know more about it than she does.

[@duhmark]

@ianhansing1756 what part of this exactly is about Vetaw's "lived experience?" I'm pretty sure it's about a large discrepancy between the shelter bed availability numbers given by a mayoral political appointee before and after an encampment sweep, a discrepancy that Vetaw's behavior prevented MAK from being held accountable on. If you want to talk about lived experience, how about the lived experience of those affected by the encampment sweeps and their advocate that Vetaw shouts down at the end?

[@ianhansing]

@@duhmark she talks about her life experience in the first 8 seconds of the video. Literally. It amazes me how quickly a compliment for woman of color gets a rebuttal these days. This popular insinuation about Vetaw and Jenkins being "Frey's puppet" are appallingly sexist and racist. You may not agree with them, but they are smart and capable women with legitimate experience and independence.

[@ianhansing]

@@duhmark and if you attened or watched (and paid attention to) the committee hearing you would have heard the discrepancy in bed counts explained.

[@FUCK_ALL_YOUTUBE_MODERATORS]

dont feed the pigeons

[@918-Verax]

Or ferral cats..

[@Acollectorsessentials]

The worse display of leadership I’ve seen since trump in office

[@ladydiana6745]

Do you feel better now? You just had to mention his name. You were salivating at the mouth trying to fight it but you couldn’t. You’re obsessed with someone who doesn’t even know you’re alive. Thank you for mentioning him tho. It keeps him relevant and in the spot light. You have yourself a good night now. Maybe next time you’re thinking of him keep it to yourself.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ladydiana6745 lady Diana no one knows you’re alive… I’m not entertaining your horse shit….

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ladydiana6745 no one knows you’re alive… I’m definitely not entertaining your nonsense.

[@Acollectorsessentials]

@@ladydiana6745 you seem incredibly delusional

[@Acollectorsessentials]

These people need help no matter how they get it, and these so called professionals that have been in recent media coverage about the camp have been spreading disinformation like I’ve never witnessed, the reason why people from the area are standing with camp Nanookasi is because it’s not ok for as wealthy of a state, county and city let alone the fact that very wealthy people also reside near this camp but have not helped at all, you’re damn right we’re having to protect the only shelter they currently call home because no one else will, what the majority of black and Hispanics should be doing the white kids of white parents we supposedly despise so much are out here showing more solidarity with the homeless people of color of their communities than those who resemble these people the most. I blame myself for not creating a better foundation of education earlier on in my life so I could have rose up earlier and started helping people in this type of condition a long time ago, when your mother was separated from you, didn’t you want her to recover? Didn’t you want her to live? Or were just worried about your emotions the way you are right now? Because that’s not what the people who have died from drugs and alcohol in my life would have wanted for me, they would want me to study and understand why this happens to people and spend hours, days trying to come up with solutions for people suffering in my very own neighborhood. All this lady managed to do at this meeting was insult the seat and position in governing this city she swore to up hold.

[@MrScribblypoo]

Cause black and brown people more hood smart and sick of the bull shit coming out of these camps. Easy to be all about peace and love till one of these addicts up in your shit when you don't got money for new stuff.

[@iMatti00]

✊🏽 ~ I have constantly criticize racists, but is it just me or do I see people who are suffering in this country due to their own shortcomings tending to be “non-Lightskin complected“? I’m gonna phrase it like that so KZbin doesn’t think I’m saying something inappropriate. Lotta time is it includes Native Americans to. And as I understand it, the tribes in history used to exterminate each other. But notice that’s never mentioned. In this country still provides medical care, not great but still medical care, to tribal members to this very day.

[@johnstoner666]

Imagine being white. It’s reverse racism now. People have to CONSTANTLY talk race like it should even matter. Your race doesn’t make you special, anyone. Morgan Freeman said it best; “wanna get rid of racism? Stop talking about race”.