Residents of an uber leftist Minneapolis neighborhood resolved to stop calling the police to protest police brutality and racial injustice - and now their neighborhood has been flooded with crime and homeless people.
However, the community's attempt at wokeness and "justice" seems to already have backfired. Hundreds of homeless people have moved into the park and crime is rapidly on the rise.
One resident, Shari Albers, who organized an effort to bring in playgrounds and help deal with crime in the neighborhood, now says she is kept awake at night by the new so-called "Powderhorn Park Sanctuary."
The growing homeless community has brought increased vehicle traffic to the neighborhood, including from drug dealers.
Another resident, Linnea Borden, says she has stopped walking her dog because she is tired of being harassed and catcalled, while Carrie Nightshade doesn't let her kids play in the park anymore because it's not safe.
Things got so bad for Mitchell Erickson that he broke his woke vow and dialed 911 last week. Erickson was cornered outside his house by two black teenagers, one of whom put a gun to his chest and demanded he hand over his car keys.
The two suspects ran off after he accidentally gave them his house keys instead, and Erickson then called the police, which he says he now "regrets."
When the reporter allegedly asked Erickson about the fact that the teens put his life in danger, he responded: "Yeah I know and yeah it was scary but the cops didn't really have much to add after I called them. I haven't been forced to think like this before. So I would have lost my car. So what? At least no one would have been killed."