Minneapolis cop accused of starting vandalizing

[Qutzupalotl]

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Link to tweet

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Fucker.

I am so thankful for cell phones and social media being a check on assholes.

[Cha]

2. ASSHOLES ARE SO STUPID.

[uppityperson]

3. Asshole

[applegrove]

4. What the F*** is going on!

[Budi]

5. I knew it !! The same shit was done in Ferguson. They think it's a joke.

So glad they got a video & proof.

The store owner should have him arrested!

Send it to Don Lemon & Chris Cuomo!!

🤬

[RockRaven]

17. Store owner should sue him AND his department.

A criminal case depends on police and prosecutors. IOW, not reliable as a means of getting justice here.

Civil court action could ruin him and expose his dirty department. Even if the store owner can't find a lawyer to take it on contingency, crowd-fund that shit.

[Budi]

22. Lol. Donations would crash the Go-Fund-Me site.

I hope they do it!

[AdamGG]

33. He should face felony charges of inciting a riot

[Cha]

6. Retweeted X 2!

[sfstaxprep]

7. Holy Shit

I'm speechless again.

[roamer65]

8. Police are scum.

This piece of shit should be thrown to the crowds.

[DENVERPOPS]

39. Better yet

Take it to the Media in Minneapolis, the Mayor and the Governor. Turn it over to Rachel, MSNBC, CNN, hell maybe FOX will do something with it since Trump has been encouraging these gestapo type actions, AND bad mouthing Fox news.

Take it to ALL of the the MEDIA, not only in Minneapolis, but across the state and across the country then sit back and see who DOESN'T do a story on it, or tries to downplay it, in an attempt to cover it up. That way everyone will know just how much of the U.S. media is owned by the RepubliCONs.........

If Minneapolis doesn't charge the four cops tomorrow morning for MURDER and arrest them, and doesn't immediately arrest and charge this officer with "Inciting A Riot" and other charges, the shit is gonna really hit the fan across this nation.........

It would be interesting to see if he is found in past videos at Trump rallies, appearing with Trump to see that published across the nation also.

[dalton99a]

9. Sure enough.

[The empressof all]

10. There are right wing infiltrators egging this on

Today we heard the George Soros bullshit again on Twitter. Always a sign to me that they point their dirty fingers to someone else. They get racial unrest. Trump gets a reprieve from Corona coverage. Yes I'm that cynical.... We've seen this before. Divide and conquer and throw the racist red meat to their base. Disgusting.

[vercetti2021]

11. Fucking pig

All of them

[cayugafalls]

12. Glad he was outed.

Cop.

Agent Provocateur.

Where have we seen this before. They want to destroy us.

[TheFarseer]

19. Yeah

So they can have the cover that the “rioters were out of hand” so none of the protesters have a valid point and cops can just go in and bust heads and arrest everyone.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. The police deceitfully infiltrating the demonstrators

and committing acts of destruction to make it appear that the protestors are doing it all.
Then the Cops and "Powers To Be" are justified to wail on the peaceful demonstrators. And blame all the violence and damage on them.
This has been going on for DECADES, at major demonstrations across our nation........

In the past, some have filmed video's of the Goon Police, rushing right past the ACTUAL vandals, and beating on and arresting peaceful protestors. The vandals are shown sneaking away in the shadows......

Wake up America.

[cayugafalls]

47. It was just reported on Unicorn Riot that police are walking with the rioters right now.

Dressed like the demonstrators and rioters. They are warning people to wear their masks to prevent them from taking pictures of their face.

Not sure if it is true, but I would not doubt it.

[liberaltrucker]

44. Chicago 1968

nt

[cayugafalls]

48. Bingo...

[ecstatic]

13. They will do ANYTHING to preserve their power.

It's absolutely disgusting.

For me, it's very simple and obvious because I don't blindly accept the outlandish shit that gets tossed out every time American racism is fully exposed for the world to see.

MN protesters did NOT initiate the attacks. Yeah, some people may have been naive or dumb or angry enough to join in once the attacks started, but they did not initiate. And ffs, does anyone really believe a regular protester would be bold enough to attack not 1 but 3 police stations!? Come on now. Think.

Just as with the media coverage surrounding Hurricane Katrina, and every other race-related crisis since, the goal is always to distract, disrupt, and dehumanize. And everyone eats it up, unfortunately.

[Maraya1969]

14. His phone # and address are under the Tweet! I called the number and it went to

voicemail. Then I hung up.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Good going...I bet no one will be able to get through soon.

[TeamPooka]

28. cell phone for texting? Texts can't go to voicemail. #justsayin

[RockRaven]

15. Worst things that ever happened to dirty fucking cops are cell phone videoes and social media

This guy got outed before he even got home.

There's no limit to their arrogance. You think nobody's gonna know who you are? Think again, motherfucker.

[Hassler]

18. The moron violated the first rule of being a St Paulite: we never leave

The city. But then, this douchebag probably doesn't live in St Paul to begin with.

[Dirtdude]

20. St Paul police number.

Call them tomorrow and tell them that you know and ask them if it was by order of the police department.

651 291-1111

[Shaddox]

21. Yes beacause white supremacists are trying to start a race war!

[PatSeg]

23. Rotten to the core

I hope this goes viral.

[kas125]

24. They show up in their costumes, with all their equipment,

helmets, shields, tear gas, guns... they need an excuse to use all that stuff. They LIKE confrontations with protesters and they always provoke them.

[quakerboy]

25. Hes not the only one

My understanding is that the ones who started the fires at the autoparts store and the partially built housing complex were also most likely officers.

[cstanleytech]

26. If true the officer should be fired and arrested and the same goes for any

other officers involved and no plea bargains should be offered or accepted.

[rusty quoin]

27. The only one who lies better than the police is Trump.

[Renew Deal]

29. His chance to get revenge on AutoZone?

[summer_in_TX]

30. Sociologists think that one reason conservatives and moderates dominated the

presidency after LBJ until the present was how most of the country processed the riots in Chicago in 1968 when the Democratic National Convention was disrupted by rioting and police violence.

The violence caused many to feel shock and fear, and want the police do whatever it took to get it under control. They felt the same way about anti-war protests and there were numerous accounts of agents provocateurs triggering violence.

It changed voters who largely were solidly FDR Dems into Republicans. Then there were the Southern Dems who switched parties over civil rights legislation.

That brought about a wave of increasing electoral dominance by the GOP.

And then there's Reichstag, the building where the Bundestag met. It was set on fire in 1933, a month after Hitler became Chancellor. Wasn't that Hitler's excuse to impose an authoritarian takeover of the entire German government?

Imposition of police state actions often is easier to do after unrest.

[yaesu]

31. this was common back in the 60's when undercoverpolice joined protesters and started the trouble. nt

[tiredtoo]

32. What was it that they burnt down in Germany?

To gain support of the pubic.

[vercetti2021]

37. Reichstag

[mysteryowl]

34. WTF? Let's watch out for an arrest of the asshole and post it on DU.

[calimary]

35. No words...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Supposedly not true

If this if real

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Alex4Martinez]

41. They don't have a lot of credibility, somebody or bodies in black outfits are breaking windows.

I suppose they might not be undercover police but it looks fishy.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266166402521522176%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100213499252

[msongs]

40. insufficent evidence, but then again everything on twitter is true nt

[Bonx]

42. Has he been arrested yet? He needs some serious jail time.

[BrightKnight]

43. Plain clothes Chicago police identified and cut off protest heads like that

Why don't they have plain clothes officers quietly identifying and arresting people like that? Chicago police did that all the time in the 80’s and 90’s. They quietly identified the heads and cut them off. They ignored the random protesters.

Seriously, it is not that difficult to manage. Someone wants to see mayhem on TV.

[Alex4Martinez]

45. Jacob Pederson, St. Paul Police Department. Higher rez Youtube here:

[Sugarcoated]

46. I'm not seeing

any actual proof that that guy is the one smashing windows....

[Qutzupalotl]

51. Here is where he is ID'd:

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(please scroll down to second tweet, below the photos. Allegedly, it is a text chain between the officer's ex-wife, who recognizes him, and her new husband. I cannot vouch for the veracity, but IMO it sounds credible.)

Link to tweet

[Sugarcoated]

54. Yes, I saw this

but the guy on the right's face is covered up so there's not way to tell if it's him

[orleans]

49. found this on heavy -- cops say it isn't that cop...

https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/jacob-pederson-auto-zone-cop-not-umbrella-man/

"In a statement sent to Heavy, Steve Linders, public information officer for the Saint Paul Police Department, wrote that the post accusing Pederson was a “false social media post.” The man isn’t Pederson, he stated (although he didn’t use Pederson’s name, Heavy asked about that.)

The police statement read:

We are aware of the social media post that erroneously identifies one of our officers as the person caught on video breaking windows in Minneapolis. We want to be perfectly clear about this: The person in the video is not our officer."

--there's more at the link

[questionseverything]

58. if we could believe the cops,none of this would be happening

<shakes head>

[orleans]

59. yep. i wondered what anyone thought the cops would say. n/t

[SlogginThroughIt]

50. Remove this post.

This is complete rumor and completely unsubstantiated. You are possibly helping to destroy an innocent person's life.

THINK BEFORE POSTING!!!!!

[firstwife]

52. This *may* not be true...

I contacted the St. Paul PD via IM. They wrote back and told me that was Not their officer. I told them I couldn’t find anything online to that effect. Then they posted “Debunking” the internet rumors. I am taking them at their word at this point, but I told them they’re now stuck with me. We’ll see where this goes. I’ve also seen the name spelled two ways. Peterson and Peterson. Other posters swear he’s a cop though...

[SlogginThroughIt]

55. you are going to harass the SPPD over an meme?

Do you think they are going to give you a different answer? They don't need the harassment. We are being played.

[C Moon]

53. You could see he was panicking to get away from the smart phone cameras...

as he tried to walk away around the dumpsters.
Every direction he turned there was someone pointing an camera at him.

[questionseverything]

57. yes it took about 4 dif peops with cameras around him to get a pic that showed his eyes

[live love laugh]

56. I've long suspected this with places especially like Chicago. nt