Saint Paul.
It's the capital city of Minnesota. It's got a reputation of being "less crazy than Minneapolis".
Which may be more a matter of "Minneapolis Leftist Crazy" being a very high bar to get over indeed.
But sometimes Saint Paul does try its honest best.
Case in point: a group of indigenous activists went to the Minneapolis Park Board complaining that a very popular off-leash dog park near where Minnehaha Creek empties into the Mississippi River was a sacred place, home of a burial site for one or more of the tribes that originally settled the area.
The Park Board voted to close the dog park:
The board agreed that the time to decide was now.
"We are trying to respect a community that needs respect," said Meg Forney, commissioner at large.
"None of the cities of municipalities have been doing the right thing from the start," said Lorenz.
The board will close the park's off-leash area by the end of the year. It'll remain open to visitors, just not for off-leash dogs.
The board says it plans to consult with the community from here.
Wednesday night's vote would decommission the park as an off-leash park area by the end of the year. As of now, dogs wouldn't be banned if they were on a leash.
It was a tough decision; on the one hand, sensitivity to tribal concerns is table stakes in Minneapolis.
On the other, the neighborhood is chock full of "Dog Parents", irate over an issue that might be one of few that could get Minneapolis's notoriously complacent DFL voter base upset at their government::
"We're in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. It does seem obscene that we have only one safe area to recreate with our dogs in the water," a man said as he took the stand.
How big a controversy is it?
Big enough that a Saint Paul school board member decided to sound off on it:
St. Paul schools, Minnesota media stay quiet as ‘pissing on white corpses’ controversy goes national
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) July 1, 2026
Chauntyll Allen's comments have drawn national attention, but the school district and Minnesota's legacy media remain silent. pic.twitter.com/cuio3Tquym
Note to many Americans - including a good chunk of the mainstream media: Saint Paul is a completely different city from Minneapolis. She's an elected official in a different city.
I tried to figure out how to describe Chauntyll Allen. Cally Proctor at the Minneapolis Times did a pretty fair job of running down her recent bona fides:
Chauntyll Allen serves on the Saint Paul Public Schools board. She founded an organization called Love First. She has become a visible activist voice in the Twin Cities and was present during the disruption of a service at Cities Church, where activists entered the sanctuary, confronted the pastor during worship, and turned a Sunday service into a scene of intimidation and fear for families gathered in prayer. Shortly after participating in the Cities Church incident, Allen was publicly honored during Women’s History Month as a Black Woman of Impact.
No matter. Allen - a Democrat Socialist on Saint Paul's "non-partisan" school board - had an opinion.
Chauntyll Allen, a clerk for the St. Paul Public Schools Board of Education, made the remarks amid a contentious debate over what is to become of Minneapolis’ Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park, which the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently voted 8-1 to close by the end of the year.
In the June 21 post on the “We Love Our Dog Park: Minnehaha” Facebook page, Allen wrote, according to Alpha News, “I don’t get why we don’t just make dog parks at White Christian cemeteries if White Christians are ok with it? This is a simple fix. Leave the indigenous land sacred and piss on the White corpses.”
My first question, though, wasn't "why is a Saint Paul School Board official sounding off on Minneapolis Park Bard business, and why does anyone care".
Chauntyll Allen, a clerk for the St. Paul Board of Education, suggested that people have their dogs "piss on the White corpses" in a controversial graveyard. Notably, Allen, who heads Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, faces charges over the Cities Church protest...…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 26, 2026
My question was "does Chauntyll Allen know how cemeteries work" or, alternately, where is the cemetery where the bodies are lying around unburied for dogs to relieve themselves on?
That's who my tax dollars go to support. How's your day doing?
