by Pat Kessler
MINNEAPOLIS — Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance claimed in a visit earlier this week that Minneapolis is so overrun by crime that residents are fleeing the city.
He spoke in front of Minneapolis police’s abandoned 3rd Precinct , which has still not been salvaged, four years after George Floyd rioters set it on fire and burned it down.
It’s where Vance repeated a misleading narrative of a deteriorating city.
“A lot of people feel like it’s easier to move out of Minneapolis than to build a life here,” Vance said. “The story of Minneapolis is coming to every community across the United States of America if we promote Kamala Harris to President of the United States.”
Vance’s dark vision of the city, however, does not square with reality.
Minneapolis’ population has actually grown since the 2020 pandemic and George Floyd’s murder by more than 3,600 people. According to Met Council estimates , the population grew from 429,956 in 2020 to 433,633 in 2023.