Below is the Star Tribune version of the story. The "anti-strib has more details.

http://anti-strib.blogspot.com/2007/10/dijion-palm-racist-scumbag-now-rapist.html

Dijion Palm - racist scumbag, now rapist scumbag
Dijion Palm. The name may ring a bell to some folks. This fine young gentleman was arrested for assaults last October that were racially motivated. He picked out white folks in downtown Mpls. that he wanted to punch, then ran up to them and cold-clocked them. He cited "slavery" as a motivation for his assaults. He ended up only being convicted of 4th degree assault. Nice. This racist system we have in Minnesota allowed this punk to be back on the streets in under a year after committing hate crimes. And after his brief stint in jail for said hate crimes, what did Dijion do with his new found freedom? He did what any young man would do after doing time for doing the crime - he committed more crimes. This time, however, the crimes he committed were significantly more violent than his previous discretions. What a shock. On October 4th, he attacked, kidnapped, and raped a 44 year old woman as she waited for light rail down on 38th and Hiawatha. He was arrested on October 13th for the crime. This woman's life is forever altered. To those that want to try and make us believe otherwise, save it. I've seen first hand how rape can forever alter a life. The victim, despite their best efforts to move on, is forever changed. It is a goddamn shame that the savage little bastard that committed these crimes against this woman couldn't be held in jail longer for hate crimes. Maybe she could have been saved from the hell she is in right now. But what about poor little Dijion. The hand wringing should be interesting to watch. Maybe we'll have calls from race pimps for understanding. And how we should rehabilitate him, not send him to jail. But the real question will be who will be to blame for this? Will it be the system? Society? How about slavery? Or can we all come to an agreement about this savage little racist bastard that he and he alone is to blame for his actions? No one made him target whites last year, and no one made him rape this woman. He did the crimes. And when criminals, regardless of color, do the crimes, they must do the time. He has hate running through his veins, and he takes out that hate on innocent victims. I sincerely hope Dijion Palm will spend many, many years in jail for his latest actions. But I suspect he'll spend minimal time behind bars. After all, the black population is getting very large in jails across the state. And does it really matter? Even if Dijion is in jail for 30 years, there will be thousands of little bastards just like this one that will take his place on the streets pulling off similar crimes.But the system is racist. And Don't you forget it.
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Minneapolis man is charged with abduction from light-rail station, rape

http://www.startribune.com/10241/story/1486672.html


Dijion Palm, 19, of Minneapolis was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree aggravated robbery and kidnapping.
The man who allegedly abducted a woman at a light-rail station in Minneapolis and raped her in a nearby building this month was charged Monday in Hennepin County District Court.
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Minneapolis man is charged with abduction from light-rail station, rape
Man charged in October attack on woman at U of M library
The man who allegedly abducted a woman at a light-rail station in Minneapolis and raped her in a nearby building this month was charged Monday in Hennepin County District Court.
Dijion Palm, 19, of Minneapolis, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree aggravated robbery and kidnapping for the Oct. 4 incident that began at the 38th Street station.
According to the charges, Palm approached the woman several times as she waited alone for a train. She initially tried to avoid him, but at one point she pushed away from him and was going to leave the station, the charges said.
About 1:55 a.m., Palm came at the woman from behind, jabbed what the woman thought was a gun into her back and told her, "If you say anything, I'll kill you," the charges said.
He then forced her into an apartment building about a block away.
Once in a laundry room, Palm punched, choked and raped the woman, an attack that left her with bruises and seven missing teeth, the charges said. After the attack, Palm left briefly before coming back and taking the woman's purse, the charges said.
Investigators used surveillance images of Palm taken at the light-rail platform to help identify him, the charges said.
He was arrested by St. Paul police Friday and is being held in the Hennepin County jail.
Metro Transit authorities have said the incident was the first time anyone had been abducted on the light-rail system since it began operating in 2004.
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Anti-Strib: Pier 6

I meant to post this to my bridge collapse blog http://riverbridgecollapse.com The link to LRT is admittedly weak but the new I35W bridge has provisions for future light rail, some extra space in the center lanes.

When they were building the Metrodome they found a huge granite rock, maybe 10 x 15 feet during the excavation. This is glacial till and not that unusual in the area. This presumed that the weight of the pier cased the giant granite rock to shift or subside. I doubt it because this could have been very easily measured after the bridge collapse.

Anti-Strib: Pier 6

http://anti-strib.blogspot.com/2007/10/pier-6.html
Pier 6
Everyone knows that I canceled my dead tree edition of the RED Rag quite some time ago because I was tired of supporting the DFL here. So, I was not surprised to see that the RED Rag didn’t bother to even comment on the Tom Lyden’s report on Fox 9 last night opn their website…being that it didn’t fit into the Carol Molnau and Republican bashing agenda. Instead they have decided to run a piece about their second favorite Senator, Busty Amy Klobuchar. (
You see, Tom Lyden did something that the DFL seems unable to do prior to finger pointing in the 35W bridge collapse…he did some investigating, and what he found should be heard by everyone man, woman and child throughout the US today. And it has nothing to do with Lt. Governor Molnau, has nothing to do with a lack of money being spent today on roads…it has to do with a decision made way back when the bridge was being built.
Tom Lyden found an old lawsuit against what we now know as MNDot, by the original bridge construction company, claiming that the bridge could not be built as intended. Pier 6, as it turns out, ran into a problem. As the construction company was drilling down to the bedrock it encountered a rather large problem…granite boulders that stopped the drills right in their tracks. The lawsuit was brought in order to get more money out of the state so that the construction company could deal with the situation…money that the construction would not get.
The lawsuit was settled out of court, and the documents that would shed light on what was done to address the problem are either missing or incomplete…meaning that it is entirely possible that pier 6, and maybe even pier 7, are resting not of bedrock as needed for a stable structure, but rather on granite boulders. If this is indeed the situation, no amount of funding and no amount of spending today could have stopped the bridge from falling…and it certainly isn’t Carol Molnau’s fault.
The DFL needs to stop their finger pointing and witch hunt and do some research themselves. If it is found that pier 6 was not built properly, and that it was Carol’s decision back in the 1960’s, then by all means, go after her…but if not, shut your cake hole and wait until the facts are in.
Did you hear that Sen. Steve Murphy, D-Red Wing?
posted by Brent at 10/10/2007 07:37:00 AM