Posted on 05/28/2020 6:04:34 PM PDT by billorites
Police departments exist to protect people's persons and property. The Minneapolis Police Department has failed to do either.
Police in Minneapolis catalyzed Wednesday night's violent protests by killing George Floyd on Monday. They've since done a terrible job of protecting innocent property owners from being victimized by the rioting that's erupted in response to Floyd's death.
Floyd was killed Monday night after being stopped by four officers with the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) on suspicion of forgery. During his arrest, one of the officers held his knee on Floyd's neck for eight minutes while the man complained that he couldn't breathe. Floyd later died in the hospital.
Video of the incident, and later factual discrepancies in the police account of the event, was enough to get all four officers fired on Tuesday, and for the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into Floyd's death.
Neither move has been enough to mollify many in Minneapolis, who've taken to the streets for two nights of demonstrations that have turned increasingly violent.
On Tuesday, protestors vandalized police vehicles and threw rocks at a local MPD precinct building where the four fired officers involved in Floyd's death were assigned. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Things escalated dramatically last night when further demonstrations resulted in the looting of local businesses. At least 16 buildings were damaged in the protests, according to the city's fire chief.
Videos and photos of the protests and their aftermath show an Autozone being torched, a Target being looted, and an under-construction apartment complex being set on fire.
Thank goodness the residents stuck with protests and didn’t riot.
Rioting would be crazy.
Looking at the videos and listening to some of the rioters interviewed it appears to me these are not George Floyd protestors but rather Antifa and Black Lives Matter professional rioters using George Floyd as an excuse.
demonicRATS have a stranglehold on Minnesota politics. This is what you get when someone promises you the world.
The rioters also trashed an ethnic store with a long history.
L8r
Even the local media admitted today that a lot of the rioters appear to be from out of town.
Really starting to wonder about the hopes for this country. We are really hanging by some thin threads. I pray for better, but the worst elements always seem to hold sway. Maybe I am wrong...
Fetal.
“Really starting to wonder about the hopes for this country. “
The country...America...is fine but these blue tumor big cities are not.
If you have 20,000 people in the city core, there isn’t much the police can do.
100%
Baltimore v2.0
THAT is why I stay out of the cities.
Short of belt fed machine guns and apcs, I’m not sure it would k d have been possible to stop it.
“...when further demonstrations resulted in the looting of local businesses.”
Brave New World. When burning buildings, throwing bottles and rocks, tearing down fencing, and assaulting others is not rioting but simple peaceful protests. That's like calling policemen as peace officers, when they murder someone over a fake $20 bill. Everything about this situation is upside down crazy.
How can someone write the word “demonstration” after looking at the video of the riots and looting? MLK demonstrated and protested always civilly and non violently.
The law just gave the racist protesters room to destroy.
+100
Minneapolis is a failed Demonnicrat city. Pave it over and start again, without the Demonicrats.
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