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Old 06-01-2020, 10:18 PM   #3610
sterlingice
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So, by now, most people have seen the video where the couple gets paint shot at them on their own porch in Minneapolis, right?

Refresher:
https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225
Please make this go viral. I am begging you. Police and National Guard patrolling neighborhood and shooting civilians on their own property. Make America see this, I beg you. [Minneapolis] : PublicFreakout

So one of the things that the internet noticed was that they went back and amended the FAQ after the fact. It originally said you could be on the own property but then it added a bunch of disclaimers (below).
Minnesota DPS stealthily amends FAQ to state you must go inside if instructed after video of MPD shooting at citizens goes viral : Minneapolis

Quote:
Originally Posted by reddit
Archive link as of May 31st AM:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200531...Pages/faq.aspx
Can I be outside my house (on my property) after 8 p.m. and before 6 a.m.?
Yes.
Current:
https://dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx
Can I be outside my house (on my property) after 8 p.m. and before 6 a.m.?
Yes. You can be on your porch, yard, patio, etc., but if a law enforcement officer or other public safety official asks you to go inside, or take any other action, you must follow the instruction.

I was showing this to my wife earlier tonight and check out this archive.org link now. It shows the same thing as "current" (i.e. it no longer says "Yes" but the longer "hey, yeah, you can get shot on your porch" that seems like it belongs in r/oddlyspecific).

That's because the link in the Reddit story is gone.

The Reddit thread link: https://web.archive.org/...//dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx (Timestamp: 2020-05-31 @ 16:57.25)

However, if you go to that link, it takes you to the oldest version on the site now, which is much newer: https://web.archive.org/...//dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx (Timestamp: 2020-05-31 @ 19:04.34)

So it looks someone even went out of their way to scrub archive.org of the old version. Unless everyone in that thread linked above and this one here (some of the top conversations on this page were about the change) was making stuff up: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...ng_you_police/

The only thing I can find now of the old are this site:
Attention Required! (I have no idea what archive.today even is)

And this screenshot from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/darkswordsmantv/...285184/photo/1

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