A Minneapolis teen was ruled incompetent to stand trial after shooting someone in the head. A few months later, he shot another person in the head.

Submitted by Dirtperson Steve

Via Not the Bee

If it wasn’t 2023 and if we didn’t know all about the progressive and “equitable” DAs and policing in this country, I would have found this story impossible to believe.

But it is 2023 and, sadly, this sort of story is no longer shocking at all:

No shock that this story comes from Minneapolis, the heart of “Defund the Police” and mostly-peaceful riots. Now the judges in that city don’t seem to take crime seriously at all.

An unnamed 16-year-old boy was ruled incompetent to stand trial after shooting a man in the head. He also had 12 misdemeanors, all of which were dismissed by the judge. The young man was turned back over to his mother.

No time behind bars. No punishment at all. No mental health treatments if he was truly insane. Just a court appearance and no consequences.

Is it a shock that 8 months later he did it again?

The 16-year-old boy robbed and shot a man in the head at a gas station (the man survived the shooting but is still hospitalized). Then, after fleeing the scene, he cornered an older lady in a parking garage, held a gun to her head, and stole her car without firing a shot.

This all could have been avoided in a just system.

He became a gap case, falling through a loophole in Minnesota law that lets juvenile suspects charged with crimes go free without required mental health treatment or supervision.

There are roughly 300 kids each year found incompetent to stand trial, according to state court data.

Since he was 16, a juvenile, the law didn’t require that he receive any punishment or treatment after he was found mentally incompetent due to a low IQ score.

So, it’s a get-out-of-jail-free card for 300 teens each year who can commit, apparently, any heinous crime they want and receive no punishment at all.

Until recently, this was the law in Minnesota for adults too, until last year when the state legislature passed a law removing the loophole for adults.

But minors are still able to, quite literally, get away with murder.

• Since the law requires cases to be suspended – even when they involve violent crimes – judges can’t order juveniles to be held in detention or released under law enforcement supervision.
• Judges’ hands are also tied in these cases because they have no authority to order children to get treatment to restore them to competence.
• Even if they did have that power, there are no competency restoration programs in Minnesotatailored to juveniles.

In one case, a mentally ill teen who was charged with two armed robberies, found incompetent to stand trial for those crimes, and then let go to his grandmother instead of secure treatment.

A broken system? Or is it working EXACTLY as intended?

In this particular case, unless he’s bumped up his cognitive abilities, this same kid could get released again.

He’s being held in the Hennepin County juvenile detention center as hearings are underway to determine his competency. If he’s found incompetent, there’s a chance he could again be let go.

This is anarchotyranny.

Stay out of cities…

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