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Good ol' St. Paul. I lived there for about 6 months, only place I've ever been chased through a park by a gang of neonazi "youths" (ca. 1988).

The pro genocide Chabad rabbi seems like a good fit for a town that once hosted Dillinger & associates, long as they paid their "protection" to St. Paul PD and didn't do crimes locally. I rented an apartment next to the brewery where Ma Barker's crew broke the "no compete" condition of residence there by kidnapping William Hamm, the stairway he got kidnapped on was pointed out to me by a local- Ah, memories.

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/06/14/90-years-ago-hamms-heir-kidnapped-held-for-ransom-in-st-paul

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You got me to do some extracurricular reading. Check out Wikipedia's entry on the riots and Yosef Lifsh.

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