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[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

 

Minneapolis cop says he threatened Somali over flag; department starts internal probe

 

A 15-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department is under investigation after he allegedly posted on his Facebook page that while on duty, he saw an upside-down American flag near a "Somali hangout spot" and demanded the owner hang the flag right-side up.

 

"If I find it upside down the next time I work, the (expletive) will hit the fan and there will be trouble," the officer, Steve Loeding, warned Sunday night on his page.

 

"Let me know and I will go with you Steve!!" one of his friends replied.

 

The message was posted sometime after 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, but it appears Loeding, 40, had removed it by Monday morning. During that time, some people who saw it forwarded screen images of it to police and city officials, including the office of Mayor R.T. Rybak.

 

Police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer said that he could confirm Loeding was under investigation by the internal affairs unit but that he could not discuss specifics.

 

Loeding joined the police department in 1996 and is assigned to the traffic enforcement unit. Palmer said he remains on duty during the investigation.

 

Palmer said Loeding declined to comment. The officer also did not respond to a request for an interview sent through his Facebook account.

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[oba hiloowlow]

Ar miskiinoow '' nin walboow wadankaa wax ku dhaama maleh'' amaa maqli jirtay

[wyre]

that was very bad and racist

[Nin-Yaaban]

Taloow hadii uu arki lahaa musqusha toilet paperka ii taalo, muxuu oron lahaa..

 

[Che -Guevara]

A traffic cop on power trip and he joined the force in 1996.

[Nin-Yaaban]

If i was the establishment owner, i would've told him to get lost, or to make me do it. There are no laws against hanging a flag upside down.

[walaalkis]

Somaliyeey walee aduunka meel walba lugta kula jirtaan Iska dhiciya .

Wadankii intaa ka soo cararney Ayana hada meelaha nalagu dhibi

[Abwaan]

Nin-Yaaban;807643 wrote:

If i was the establishment owner, i would've told him to get lost, or to make me do it. There are no laws against hanging a flag upside down.

I beleive Soomaaligaan xumaan kama aysan ahayn ee khalad dhacay ayay ahayd. This dude inta sida xun ula hadlay haddana facebook ku faanaya wax kir la dhaho waa istaahilaa....Inuu shafro ayayba ahayd oo yiraa wax wanaagsan baad samaysay for hanging the flag on your premises. Muxuuse ka dheefay hadda isagaa ku shaqo la'aan doona.

Waxaan la yaabay as I observed many times Soomaalida xitaa Calanka Soomaaliya waa foorariyaan oo uma fiirsadaan....I guess a lot of people do not understand this and think that it does not matter which side is up and which one is down.

[Bluelicious]

Nin-Yaaban;807635 wrote:

Taloow hadii uu arki lahaa musqusha toilet paperka ii taalo, muxuu oron lahaa..

 

Looooooooool. There is also one made from dollars.

 

 

That guy was such a racist I hope he gets what he deserves. Some people don't know how to handle power and misuse it. Those Americans think the land is theirs when it's not.

[Abdul]

It was even legal to burn that flag in public but not sure if they changed the law now.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Some of you didn't read qoraalka dhan. Here is the last part:

 

The business just north of the mosque on 26th Avenue is a new restaurant, An-Nuur, and the owner, Abdulcadir Haji, said he's never seen an upside-down flag in the area. He also resented any implication he would fly an American flag upside down because he is also an Army sergeant, currently on inactive reserve.

 

"I'm not a guy who would allow something like that to happen," said Haji, 55, who came to the U.S. from Somalia when he was 22 and became a naturalized citizen in 1986 during his third year in the military.

 

"

I want to see the son of a gun, excuse my language," Haji said when shown a printout Loeding's Facebook comments. "It's pure hatred. I'm very upset

."

 

Haji opened his restaurant in January; it features American, Somali, Middle Eastern and Italian cuisine. Kitchen manager Angie Johnson said she also has never seen an upside-down flag in the neighborhood and wouldn't abide it if she saw one.

 

"I'm American. Everybody here is American. Why would I allow that to happen here?" she said. "That guy needs to come and try our food instead of criticizing us."

[Malika]

^Oh, oh..Lol.