Minnesota mall stabbings: suspected attacker killed after eight people injured

[Boiler 46,412]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/18/several-peope-injured-in-minnesota-mall-stabbings

At least eight people were taken to a hospital with injuries after a stabbing attack at a Minnesota shopping mall that ended with the suspected attacker, who reportedly made references to Allah, shot dead by an off-duty police officer, authorities said.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Time to start banning knives......?

[Boiler 46,412]

And Forks.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The purp is dead, not one of his victims is. Knife attacks suck, but good thing this nut job didn't have a gun, right?

[Merle 458]

The purp is dead, not one of his victims is. Knife attacks suck, but good thing this nut job didn't have a gun, right?

Good thing a good guy with a gun was in the vicinity or it could have been much worse.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Good thing a good guy with a gun was in the vicinity or it could have been much worse.

Shot by an off duty Police Officer. Not the fabled concealed carry permit holder rushing in to save the day with his trusty pea shooter. Perhaps the call to ban knives was sarcasm?

[Merle 458]

Shot by an off duty Police Officer. Not the fabled concealed carry permit holder rushing in to save the day with his trusty pea shooter. Perhaps the call to ban knives was sarcasm?

A good guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. It can be a police officer or an armed citizen. But since you mentioned the 'fabled conceaned carry permit holder' this is for you.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=concealed+carry+stops+robbery

[Merle 458]

I'm watching the news right now and they are reporting the knife wielder was asking the people he stabbed if they were Muslim before stabbing them.

[Boiler 46,412]

At least it was nothing to do with Islam.....

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Ummm, what do you suppose an off duty police officer carrying a gun IS, exactly? A concealed carry permit holder...

Shot by an off duty Police Officer. Not the fabled concealed carry permit holder rushing in to save the day with his trusty pea shooter. Perhaps the call to ban knives was sarcasm?

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Friends from St Cloud said the town has become a cesspool due to so-called refugees influx for many years.

[Boiler 46,412]

He runs a shooting range, part time officer and in this context he was in the right place at the right time and was concealed carrying.

[Rob L 3,811]

Friends from St Cloud said the town has become a cesspool due to so-called refugees influx for many years.

People are saying

[Rob L 3,811]

http://www.citypages.com/news/st-cloud-is-the-worst-place-in-minnesota-to-be-somali-7976833

St. Cloud is the worst place in Minnesota to be Somali

Lul Hersi sat in her idling minivan at a stoplight in downtown St. Cloud. Her window was rolled down to invite in the evening summer breeze, her phone tucked in her hijab, against her ear, like a makeshift Bluetooth receiver.

"Hey, you!" a woman's voice suddenly brayed from the next car. "Hey, you! I'm talking to you, Somalian lady."

Hersi turned to find a white woman leaning out the passenger window, her eyes piercing with confrontational energy while her husband watched wordlessly from the driver's seat.

"What?" Hersi asked.

"Are you too lazy to carry that phone in your hand?"

"Yes!" Hersi retorted without skipping a beat. "Can you come and carry it for me?"

Mulki Ali and Rachael Anderson at Ali’s home in St. Cloud.

The white woman's smugness evaporated. She started bellowing a chorus familiar to Somalis in St. Cloud. That they had only come to eat welfare. That everyone would be better off if they went back to Africa.

Hersi's preferred response, if she could help herself, was a pointed non-response — the purse of a lip, the roll of an eye. But in moments of weakness, when invective crept red-hot under her skin, she couldn't help but return fire.

"I just came from work, for God's sake!" she yelled. "I pay taxes. I think you're used to insulting people who don't talk back. Next time you attack somebody, make sure you know if they speak English or not!"

When the light finally turned green, the white woman's husband stomped the gas. Hersi was left shouting through the exhaust.

"I just went off on her," she now reflects with a sigh of remorse. "I just talked to her the way she wanted me to talk to her. But at some point you feel like, 'I need to defend myself. They'll do this to the next person they find.'"

St. Cloud has been Hersi's home for the past 14 years. Unfortunately for her, it's the worst place in Minnesota to be Somali.

Brooklyn Park mom gets 45 days, "awareness" training for pointing gun at Muslims

http://www.citypages.com/news/woman-gets-45-days-cultural-awareness-training-for-pointing-gun-at-muslims-8059934

St. Cloud Times columnist A.J. Kern fans the flames of anti-refugee fears

http://www.citypages.com/news/st-cloud-times-columnist-aj-kern-fans-the-flames-of-anti-refugee-fears-7974107

[Sousuke 1,214]

Shot by an off duty Police Officer. Not the fabled concealed carry permit holder rushing in to save the day with his trusty pea shooter. Perhaps the call to ban knives was sarcasm?

He is actually an instructor and owns Tactical Advantage LLC....you could say he is at the forefront of the conceal carry movement. From what I've read he is semi retired from the police, but still does part time work occasionally.