Bye Bye MN Twins! The Pohlads should have kept their mouths shut. Drop your season tickets, Boycott the Twins! The Pohlads then explain they’re “horrified and ashamed that this keeps happening to Black people in our community.”

Twins ownership weighs in on Chauvin trial, Daunte Wright shooting

The Pohlads, worth several billion dollars, also listed money they’ve donated to “racial justice.”

In an intriguing decision, Minnesota Twins ownership weighed in on the Derek Chauvin trial Tuesday afternoon, ahead of the ultimate verdict, with a divisive statement from ownership.

The tweet from the Pohlad family opens with a trope about how “toxic and prevalent systemic and individual racism are to our community.”

They then explain they’re “horrified and ashamed that this keeps happening to Black people in our community.”

The Pohlads, worth several billion dollars, also listed money they’ve donated to “racial justice,” along with “BIPOC” businesses, nonprofits and communities.

The statement concludes with a plea to “treat each other with respect and compassion.”

Several hundred comments below were mixed, with some fans offering praise and others asking why the team is again bringing politics into sports, rather than focusing on winning baseball games.

The Twins’ rhetoric comes on the heels of similar calculated statements from President Joe Biden and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Target Field has posted “End Racism” and “Justice for George Floyd” signs on stadium walls since last summer, and the team canceled a game last week due to the Daunte Wright shooting.

https://alphanewsmn.com/twins-ownership-weighs-in-on-chauvin-trial-daunte-wright-shooting/

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Drop all season tickets…Boycott all the Twinkies' games. Not worth risking your lives to venture to their taxpayer paid stadium in downtown Murderapolis.

Boycott their other businesses as well:

Marquette Financial Companies, United Properties, River Road Entertainment, Stanton Group Holdings, Arcadia Solutions, KTWN FM (96.3 FM) Radio Station (through Northern Lights Broadcasting, a holding company, PAR Systems, Audi St. Paul & Mpls., Porsche St. Paul & Mpls., Chrysler/Jeep/RAM/Dodge Coon Rapids, BMW of Minnetonka, Carousel Motor Group and MN Twins.

‘Could be overturned’: Some call for charges as judge condemns Waters’ ‘abhorrent’ comments

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill rebuked U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters in the courtroom Monday for “abhorrent” comments she made about the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

“I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned,” Cahill told defense counsel Eric Nelson, who motioned (unsuccessfully) for a mistrial because of the “pervasive” media exposure surrounding the case, lack of jury sequestration, and possible jury intimidation from a sitting U.S. congresswoman.

“There is a high probability that members of this jury have seen these comments,” said Nelson.

He was referring to Waters’ brief appearance over the weekend in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where she told a group of protesters to get “more confrontational” if Chauvin is acquitted.

“We’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” said Waters.

Cahill found the comments “abhorrent,” but doesn’t think they will sway the jury.

“This goes back to what I’ve been saying from the beginning. I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function,” he added. “I think if they want to give their opinions, they should do so in a respectful [manner] and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution, to respect a coequal branch of government.”

“Regardless of the outcome of this trial, regardless of the decision made by the jury, there is one true reality, which is that George Floyd was killed at the hands of police,” Frey claimed.

Walz was asked for his reaction to Waters’ comments, but largely evaded the question. Gov. Walz refused to condemn Maxine Waters' comments.

In contrast, one local Republican is calling on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to “look into charging [Waters] for attempting to incite a riot.

“It is disappointing that Congresswoman Waters refuses to recognize that the United States Constitution protects the rights of anyone accused of a crime, and ensures a fair trial,” said state Rep. Brian Johnson.

“During a time of increased tension around the nation — especially in a state like Minnesota where hundreds of businesses were destroyed and dozens of people were injured in riots less than one year ago — these comments from a senior member of the majority party and Committee Chair in the House of Representatives are unacceptable, divisive, and can only be viewed as a means to incite further violence and destruction,” the four Republicans said in a joint letter.

https://alphanewsmn.com/could-be-overturned-some-call-for-charges-as-judge-condemns-waters-abhorrent-comments/

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