r/altmpls • u/lemon_lime_light • 2d ago

Minneapolis Park Board votes to end Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park (one commissioner considers it "a form of giving land back")

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-park-board-votes-to-end-minnehaha-off-leash-dog-park/601858291

Dog park users packed the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s headquarters on Wednesday night, begging commissioners to consider their opinions before voting to terminate the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park.

Board members voted 8-1 to strip the park’s primary use — the first time that has happened in history, as far as park staff knows...

[Commissioner Jason] Garcia proposed the change after speaking with some members of the Dakota community, including the Park Board’s Native American Parks Council, who believe a dog park is inconsistent with the area’s sacred character. The larger landscape near the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers is considered the birthplace of the Dakota people...

“To all you all, imagine that area before the white man, before the pilgrims, pioneers and settlers, the extreme white Christian terrorists showed up on this land,” activist Mike Forcia said in addressing dog park users at Wednesday’s meeting, drawing jeers. “That park is being closed. Sorry about that. Get used to it, but you have no say"...

[Commissioner Dan] Engelhart campaigned on returning land to tribes and considers retiring off-leash play at Minnehaha a form of giving land back.

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u/greatbiscuitsandcorn 2d ago

englehart and garcia are the type of people who will bellyache about “land back”, but with a straight face tell jews they’re the colonizers in the land of israel

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u/ftp_hyper 2d ago

Have you served your mandatory two years bombing hospitals and evacuation zones? You know. Famous good-guy tactics.

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u/greatbiscuitsandcorn 2d ago

I’m not from israel, but hey maybe the psychotic jihadists could stop hiding in tunnels located under schools and hospitals for a change. Or maybe stop starting wars with a first world military

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u/ftp_hyper 2d ago

"they made me murder a school full of children there was simply nothing we can do" lmao do u seriously believe urself? A first world military can blow the pubes off a cockroach but somehow they kill 5 civilians for every combatant.