LIVE. No shit. MASSIVE MASSIVE fires for blocks in Minneapolis riot area

[progree]

Last edited Thu May 28, 2020, 03:54 AM - Edit history (1)

[Tipperary]

1. Wow, the comments on that video sound gleeful.

No doubt even more people will be out of work now. Smh.

[progree]

2. They've mentioned people helping themselves to the liquor store there ... people driving around

and walking around with open bottles ... Also that the power went out in that area

[sarisataka]

3. I've been watching this on several live streams

people ask what would a modern civil war look like? You are seeing it.
Neighborhoods burn while the people cheer. So far only have heard of two unconfirmed deaths.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. One person shot dead by a store owner per The Star Tribune.

As Mayor Frey calls for officer's arrest, violence intensifies in Minneapolis
As a second night of protests erupted around a police station, one person died at HCMC after being shot by a store owner amid looting, police said.
By Liz Navratil and Libor Jany Star Tribune
May 28, 2020 — 2:19am

Link: https://www.startribune.com/shooting-death-near-minneapolis-protest-george-floyd-calls-for-ex-officer-s-arrest/570804062/

(snip)

Hours after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for a police officer’s arrest and charges in the death of George Floyd, violent protests erupted anew, causing widespread damage and looting at south Minneapolis storefronts.

A fatal shooting in the protest area was over looting at a pawn shop, the shots fired by the store's owner, Minneapolis police said early Thursday at a news conference. The wounded man was taken to HCMC, where he died. One person is in custody, a police spokesman said.

KY..............

[UpInArms]

5. reminds me of 1991-2 ...

LA ... Rodney King ...

[BrightKnight]

19. Sounds like someone wants to turn it into that.

It will not be helpful and I would bet that most of the fires by someone with another agenda.


I’m not saying that a riot wouldn’t be justified.

[chillfactor]

6. Let us not forget...

this all could have been prevented except for four cops decided to become judge. jury. and executioners. All they had to do was put a black man in a police car and take hiim to jail.

[Nay]

16. Thank you. I would also remind people that the government of France is quite rightly

solicitous of its population's rights and desires because they will shut Paris down for weeks with strikes, fires, cars being overturned, etc., etc.

To "tsk, tsk" when Americans riot in the face of the string of monstrous, brutal, needless killings of black men and kids is just bullshit. I'm surprised at the restraint black people have shown in the face of such callousness and viciousness.

[lostnfound]

20. I'm also surprised by that. Yet the tsk tsk factor is pervasive way to corral public opinion

Last night discussing situation in Minneapolis with an older friend. His abhorrence of violence and of what the cop did turned into “but look at the violent protestors and what they are doing now...”
I suspect provocateurs and undercover instigators, who shore up the public.
Debated whether the fires could be provocateurs with a friend, then heard exactly that “I felt sympathy but now I don’t” statement an hour later from someone else I know.

It makes me angry and discouraged, but this is the way a swath of America thinks.

[Nay]

21. You are correct. These are the depths to which logical thought has fallen.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. This does not help anyone's cause

sad to say..

[Hekate]

8. Damn. Damn. Damn.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. So sorry to see this.

I hope Minneapolis can bring themselves back from the brink.

[Historic NY]

10. The comentator, most fun he's had all season looks forward to more mayhem tommorw.

nuts in the middle of a pandemic.burning and looting somehow that really reinforces the point of the shooting when property owners are targeted. Once again they play into the hands of people that won't support their cause.

[judeling]

11. This is so sick

They trashed the high school. MTS has terrible scores because they take the toughest kids and they trashed it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. "Knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property

rights...”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Is this the trigger the fascists have been looking for?

[hedda_foil]

17. I fear so.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. MLK quote:

[BrightKnight]

18. Who is actually setting the fires and why? nt