Alex Mingus told police gathered at last week’s award ceremony, “I’m very uncomfortable being here with you guys.”
When Alex Mingus stepped to a podium after receiving the St. Paul police chief’s Award for Valor for saving a man who’d been shot, he had a message to deliver.On Site Public Media captured video of Mingus’ speech last week, which has gone viral and received national media attention.
An officer later informed Mingus that a bullet severed an artery in the man’s arm and, if Mingus hadn’t helped, he likely would have died. After Interim Police Chief Jeremy Ellison gave him the award, Mingus took off his sweatshirt. He was wearing a T-shirt underneath that said, “Smash White Supremacy.”
“That was a potential of 18 people that could have stopped to help preserve life, but 18 people chose to go to a potential threat,” he said of officers responding to the shooting suspect. “And I recognize the man had a pistol, and we didn’t know what he was doing.”The police department said that officers ended up in a standoff with a suspect who was threatening to shoot himself and others.
Mingus said Monday that his comment has led some people to say that he’s advocating for riots, but he added, “I’m not asking anybody to take to the streets right now and riot, that seems stupid. I was just saying those things do work when you need them to work. I live in south Minneapolis, I live near the Third Precinct. I was there during the uprising .”
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