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Andrew ‘Tekle’ Sundberg had a nearly six-hour standoff with Minneapolis police on July 13, where Sundberg shot into the apartment of Arabella Yarbrough. This led to calls for police that resulted in the standoff at the apartment building at 904 21st Avenue South in Minneapolis, MN.
The bodycam footage shows initial responding Minneapolis police officer Kapinos standing outside a door at the end of the hallway for Yarbrough's floor. The 911 caller, Arabella Yarbrough, states that she was grazed by a bullet from a suspect who lives in apartment 318.
After knocking on the locked hallway door repeatedly while announcing "police" and "police department" several times, three shots are fired through the door, sending him back down the stairway for cover and radioing "shots fired in the stairwell."
When additional officers arrive, Yarbrough can be seen slowly opening the door, and being told to "show us your hands!" before she is taken by officers who announce "clear." Her two kids wander out of her apartment shortly after and are gathered by officers.
Since Sundberg’s death, protests have called for further transparency about what happened before his death, with Yarbrough herself confronting protestors in a tense moment outside her apartment building Saturday.
These officers appear to be doing everything right in this case. Police shootings are not all the same, but to these protesters, this shooting is equal to every other.
Do these people even live in the community where this incident took place? Do they know what she went through? Do they know the full story or are they just committed to defunding the police? Maybe they still want to defund the very same police department that hired officers who saved this woman’s life and her kids.
It’s appalling how someone was screaming words that sounded like, “but you’re still alive.” As if that makes it ok that Sundberg was shooting at her.
No, she’s only alive because the cops did their job!
If these scenes don’t capture everything wrong with the modern-day progressives, I don't know what does.
The muted parts of the above video can be heard, and seen better below:
What a shame.
Clayton is the founder and publisher of the social and political commentary newsletter Think Things Through and the host of the Think Things Through Podcast.
Twitter: @claytoncraddock