Posted on 05/29/2020 6:24:59 PM PDT by karpov
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The recorded footage of the arrest showed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin with his knee placed squarely on Floyd’s neck, while Floyd begged for mercy. Floyd, who didn’t resist arrest, died soon after. Chauvin, who was subsequently fired, had 18 prior complaints filed against him with the police department’s internal-affairs division. In a bizarre twist, it appears that Chauvin and Floyd were also once coworkers: they worked security at the same nightclub, and possibly knew each other.
The protests that followed were, initially, peaceful. Thousands packed the streets on Wednesday with signs and calls for Chauvin’s arrest. By that night, however, things turned ugly. “The most shocking thing to me when I was on the ground is realizing just how quickly the emphasis of justice for George Floyd was lost,” observed a reporter for The Daily Caller. “As the evening wore on into the early morning hours, the original crowd of people that was there holding protest signs, doing chants, quickly deteriorated.”
Cars sped around wildly, knowing the police wouldn’t respond. People drank alcohol and smoked marijuana in the streets.
Then the rioters began looting and burning buildings, starting in south Minneapolis but quickly moving to the more-upscale Uptown neighborhood. Rows of businesses and shops on Uptown’s Lake Street were looted and torched. Emergency call logs recorded dozens of “fire events,” and responders were attacked with rocks and other projectiles. A $30 million affordable-housing project was burnt, as was a Cub Foods grocery store. A man looting a pawn shop was shot by the store owner, who was quickly arrested.
Thursday night was even worse. The looting continued in Uptown, where thugs broke into the Apple Store. In a plea to be left alone, store owners posted signs saying that the store was minority-owned.
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>> Democrat run ..., unions...
Yup, all of that.
LOL... Honey badger don't care.
I wonder how that worked out.
Time for a little come-uppance.
More fake news. Floyd absolutely resisted arrest.
I was there in 1993, before it was infested with Somali scum and other trash. The Twin Cities were nice back then. I wouldn’t go anywhere near that area now.
More info on this would be nice. Sounds like the police won't do anything about the rioters, but are quick to go after property owners.
Wasn’t PDJT going to send in National Guard or something? Or does that have to be done by the governor?
I feel bad for Black America even if I disagree with the leftist politics of many. They are now kicked in the teeth down further by white POS trash liberals like Antifa. They (Soros) now own the “Floyd””crisis”.
SumaB. seems the cop will, or may walk!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-no-evidence-george-floyd-died-of-strangulation-underlying-conditions-potential-intoxicants-a-factor-in-death
[[[A man looting a pawn shop was shot by the store owner, who was quickly arrested.]]]
You can’t make this stuff up.
A Wells Fargo bank and a post office are on fire.
Sorry there are plenty of black people looting and causing trouble too you forget this is being televised.
Another American city has been sacrificed on the altar of diversity and will slip into the status of Detroit.
Yep - I saw a short clip where someone was on the hood of a car driven by a female...he hopped of as she turned the car and she knocked him over with the car before taking off...a number of “the crew” tried to catch her before she got up “escape velocity”... sorry thing is that she’d be the likely target of the “Law”....
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