A Democratic party leader who pledged to “dismantle” the Minneapolis police following the death of George Floyd has called for a crackdown on crime after she was violently carjacked in front of her children. The Telegraph has the story.
Shivanthi Sathanandan, the second vice chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party (DFL), thanked the police department for its help after she was attacked by four armed men in broad daylight outside her home.
Sharing an image of her bloodied face on Facebook on Wednesday, she wrote: “This is the face of a mother who just had the s— beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, ‘let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away’.”
Ms. Sathanandan described hearing her four-year-old daughter’s screams and her son, seven, “wailing for someone to come help because bad guys are murdering his Mama in the backyard”.
The men, who held her neighbours up at gunpoint when they tried to help, left her with a broken leg and injuries to her head and body, she said.
“I have NO DOUBT they have done this before. Yet they are still on OUR STREETS. Killing mothers. Giving babies psychological trauma that a lifetime of therapy cannot erase. With no hesitation and no remorse,” she said.
Ms. Sathanandan called for action against “who are running wild creating chaos across our city”, adding: “I wasn’t silent when I fought these men to save my life and my babies, and I won’t be silent now.”
