White supremacists in Minneapolis?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Just found on Nextdoor: "White Supremecists (sic) on 46th and Nicollet. Community Alert - We just saw two trucks of armed white supremacists at 46th and Nicollet. They seemed to be looking at maps on the hood of one of the trucks. They had Trump stickers, Q Anon stickers, militia stickers, and assault rifles." It's from Nextdoor, where sometimes people can get overheated, but it was an interesting report. I will be on the lookout; this isn't very far from me.

It’s definitely getting weird around here. Neighbors knocked on my door a little while ago to talk about what the neighborhood is doing for protection tonight. Everybody is putting their trash and recycling bins in their garages so they can’t be used to start fires, so I did that and double-locked the garage, then wired the back gate shut. While I was weeding in the front yard, another neighbor mentioned the same concerns and that some weird guy had scared his daughter in the alley. We could see something going on at an intersection a few blocks away; it looked like it was blocked off. Advice from the neighborhood association for this evening is to have garden hoses hooked up and ready to use and turn on all house and porch lights, and maybe sit on the porch to keep watch on things. I don't know whether this is paranoid or rational; but it's been said that you can never be too paranoid - only not paranoid enough.

This is all so fucking dystopic. I'm waiting for the locusts, frogs and rivers of blood.

[The Magistrate]

1. Best Of Luck, Ma'am

Been waiting for the rain of frogs myself for some time.

Be safe!

[underpants]

2. MAGA loves the black people

Are you in the area or did you see this on a Nextdoor Post?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Both. I am in the area

and I saw the Nextdoor post because it was posted to my neighborhood. I don't think anything will happen here - we are a little distance from last night's festivities - but people seem kind of nervous.

[underpants]

20. Stay safe.

[Jamastiene]

4. Stay safe as best you can. n/t

[roamer65]

5. Be safe, TVO.

Be vigilant. Report any suspicious looking groups, especially like the group mentioned on next door.

I know you will stay in after 8PM, but make sure you do. The NG will not hesitate to load live ammunition if they are threatened with that same force. It may get rough.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Stay safe. Do not take chances.

I'm not sure which city I saw this in last night, but I think it was Minneapolis. Some guys were going in and out of a building, looting some items, then threw an incendiary device. Then, they individually took off, ran around the protesters standing there and hid behind them.

Today, I heard the mayors, I believe, describing exactly the same thing. I don't doubt at all that many of the fires were started by supremacists. You don't want to mess with them, for sure.

Please let us know what is happening, if you can. We care!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Take what precautions you can. No harm in being overprepared. Stay safe.

We're living in strange, sometimes dangerous times.

[lostnfound]

8. Have your cameras ready. Wish for drone footage of the Nazis heading back to their cars

But stay safe.

[mcar]

9. I'm so sorry you, and your state,

are going through this.

[mahina]

10. I used to have to water the roof at new years

When I lived in a very local neighborhood.

Where I live now there’s rules about that so we see him all around but not right here

(Here, local people set a heap of fireworks. Not little crackers, lots of huge aerials.)

It might not be a bad idea to douse your roof and bushes and your neighbors too. Good luck sister . I’ll be thinking of you. Aloha

[Sogo]

11. Why isn't the city under curfew?

No one out after 8pm or some such....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. It is, starting at 8:00 pm. That didn't stop anybody last night, though.

Tonight the whole MN National Guard is being deployed so maybe things won't be so out of control (I hope). From what I'm seeing on CNN, shit be cray elsewhere already, especially in LA and Chicago.

[Sogo]

15. I hope they get to the bottom of who those outside instigators are....

That will tell a lot of what's going on in this country!

[DesertRat]

12. Omg, it does sound dystopic

I'm sorry you're going through this. Stay safe!

[randr]

13. Is anyone taking pictures and reporting?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Not much is happening (yet). Unfortunately the person who reported the white supremacists

didn't photograph them. Gonna be out on the front porch with my phone/camera tonight.

[superpatriotman]

18. Every American owns a camera phone

Why no pictures of these guys?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Sometimes people don't have it on them or don't have the presence of mind

to start using it - especially older folks who aren't used to using a phone as a camera.

[2naSalit]

22. I disabled the camera on my phone...

never gonna turn it on either. I understand wanting it for such events but some folks don't use their phones for anything but phones, the old fashioned kind.

[LeftInTX]

17. I probably wouldn't sit on the porch, unless I was armed or had large dog etc

Maybe you could run your garden sprinklers overnight as a deterrent?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. I do have a shotgun but I don't want to freak people out

by sitting on my porch with the thing on my lap, looking like a deranged old hippie. I really don't think anything will happen here; it's just an ordinary middle-class residential neighborhood without any businesses with glass to break or stuff to steal.

[stillcool]

23. oh jeezus...that's scary stuff.

if you aren't paranoid, you haven't been paying attention. Stay safe, in any case.

[keithbvadu2]

24. I think I read that this guy (OA) is from California.

I think I read that this guy (OA) is from California.

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