Minneapolis ‘Violence Interrupter’ Threatens (Gun) Violence Over Looming Funding Cuts

We’re all reading about Elon Musk and his autistic wonderkids tracking down all of the wasteful US government spending each and every day.  With billions of dollars at stake, these so-called “non-profits” and the people that work for them aren’t very happy.  But it’s sometimes the cranks that “work” at local “non-profits” start talking violence over a few thousand in potential funding cuts.  Just that happened at the Minneapolis City Council when a so-called “violence interrupter” launched into threats of violence over looming funding cuts.

Rev. Jerry McAfee gave the council both barrels with both homophobic remarks and threats of violence during a meeting.  The language and remarks actually shut down the meeting for a time.  Then later in the evening, the good Rev. and purported “violence interrupter” doubled down on violent verbiage, writing “Rev. McAfee ain’t hittin’ nobody. I ain’t shot nobody. However I will if I have to. I don’t want to.”

Holy cow.  Hopefully this guy is a better Christian than he is a violence interrupter.

From the Star-Tribune:

A prominent north Minneapolis pastor interrupted a Monday Minneapolis City Council committee meeting and made threatening statements, then doubled down in a Facebook Live video posted Tuesday night.
 
The Rev. Jerry McAfee — whose nonprofit has done violence prevention work for years — brought a council committee meeting to a halt Monday when he interrupted the meeting and went on a five-minute rant about the council considering temporarily moving some violence prevention programs to Hennepin County…
 
He challenged the council to “put me out” but said if they tried to arrest him, his “people” would come.

As he left the meeting room, he told the council members, “I’ll see you again; that’s a promise.”

After he left the meeting, he told the Star Tribune that the council was trying to move funding to the county to steer funding to people who had gotten it in the past. He scoffed at the council suggesting he threatened them, calling it “childish foolishness.”

McAfee suggested in subsequent social media posts that he half expected to be arrested. He doubled down in a Facebook Live post Tuesday night, in which he said “Rev. McAfee ain’t hittin’ nobody. I ain’t shot nobody. However I will if I have to. I don’t want to.”

After posting those remarks, Council Member Robin Wonsley sent a note to her constituents in which she said of McAfee: “This individual has now publicly made death threats.”

This whole “violence interrupter” scheme pays “reformed” felons and gang bangers to mediate disputes to prevent violence.  Their efficacy is, at best, doubtful.  After all, in Chicago, state and local government has spent millions on “violence prevention” programs like these over the past few years.  We all see how well those work out, along with a rabid love of gun control, in America’s Murder City.

In fact, the guy in the feature photo above was convicted as a felon in possession of a handgun – while working as a violence interrupter in Chicago.  How did he land on CPD’s radar?  He “adjusted” his Glock in his pants, triggering a negligent discharge that gave him a cool new scar on his buttock.  Yep, he shot himself in the butt.  And the judge sent him away for 10 years as a repeat felon with a(nother) gun.