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MINNEAPOLIS—Ever since protesters flooded the streets following the killing of George Floyd in police custody, residents here have wondered: Who burned down so many businesses in the Twin Cities, and why? While a few arrests have been made so far, the question continues to go largely unanswered. “It’s perplexing as can be,” said Cam McCambridge, co-owner of a Minneapolis building that housed Family Dollar and O’Reilly Auto Parts stores before it collapsed in an overnight inferno during rioting two weeks ago. The widespread destruction across much of Minneapolis and St. Paul sets the Twin Cities apart from other flare-ups of...

One of the saddest things I have seen in society is the anarchic sight of authority figures - who are utterly undeserving of that mantle - kneeling before mobs of rioters. The mobs of rioters are being rewarded, by groveling subservience, for looting and burning businesses. They will be emboldened by that and will carry their theft and arson to suburban homes and rural farms. Appeasing mobs of rioters who verily seek to burn down civilization is a bad idea. Additionally, the country was founded on the refusal to kneel before the legions of a distant king. Kneeling before the...

An ex-con and Soros alumni is leading the $20m effort to post bail on behalf of Minnesota rioters.. An ex-convict and alumni of left wing billionaire George Soros’s fellowship program is at the helm of a $20,000,000 effort to get rioters out of jail as soon as possible in Minnesota. The Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) is an organization dedicated to quickly putting suspected criminals back on the streets by using donated money to pay their bails. During an average year, the MFF raises about $100,000 to bail out illegal aliens apprehended by ICE. However, since protests began following the death...

Citrus Heights Homes Displaying American Flags Targeted By ArsonistsCITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) — Police are investigating a string of arsons, targeting Citrus Heights homes with American flags on display.At least four homes were targeted in the Sungarden neighborhood early Saturday morning. So far, police say they don’t know the motive.…Michael Howard has lived here for a decade. He was busy cleaning up some of the ashes left from the fires. “This is the first time anything’s happened,” Howard said. “Gut reaction? Is it somebody with an agenda?” Citrus Heights police are investigating the arsons and so far don’t know the motive,...

A St. Paul man has been charged in connection to the arson at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct. Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced it charged 23-year-old Branden Michael Wolfe with aiding and abetting arson. A fire at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct on May 28 followed rioting that occurred after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. According to a criminal complaint, police were called on June 3 to the Menards in St. Paul after they received a report that a person with police equipment...

A St. Paul man has been charged in connection to the arson at the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct. Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced it charged 23-year-old Branden Michael Wolfe with aiding and abetting arson. The Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct was caught on fire on May 28 following rioting that occurred after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. According to a criminal complaint, police were called on June 3 to the Menards in St. Paul after they received a report that a person with police...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr rebuked the false narrative perpetuated by legacy media Sunday that protestors cleared near the White House last week were gathering in peaceful demonstrations. On Monday, protestors were dispersed by park police by pepper balls as the city neared at 7 p.m. curfew by Barr’s orders moments before President Donald Trump walked across the street to observe the damage done to the historic St. John’s Church.“They were not peaceful protestors,” Barr said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “That’s one of the big lies that the media is⁠—seems to be perpetuating at this point.”CBS’ Margaret Brennan pushed...

Washington, D.C. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) issued a joint statement condemning President Trump's determination to restore law and order, saying "we all know that 'law and order' is a code phrase justifying oppression of African-Americans, and that, as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) has pointed out, 'rioting' is a pejorative term used to malign property redistribution when done by people of color. We call upon the President and law-enforcement officers to stand down and let the rough justice undertaken in the streets take its course and peter out. The President's insistence on imposing...

At least two people were detained after firefighters battled a series of fires in northern California this week. According to reports, six fire spots were reported south of San Jose. Collectively, the fires burned at least 90 acres and were 90% contained as of Friday. One blaze reportedly came dangerously close to homes, prompting some to evacuate their homes. Evacuation orders have since been lifted. Fire crews suspect the fires were intentionally set. “These were multiple small spot fires, potentially purposefully set,” stated San Jose Fire Department Chief Michael Van Elgort. “We have a suspect that we’re interviewing and that...

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday unveiled the newly minted "Black Lives Matter Plaza" near the White House in an apparent tribute to the protesters who have advocated against police brutality and racism in the city over the past several days in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Bowser tweeted a photo of what appeared to be a city worker affixing a street sign to a light pole on a section of 16th Street in the nation's capital. "The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially 'Black Lives Matter Plaza,'" she...

The Ivy League-educated lawyer and Brooklyn community board member busted in Saturday’s Molotov cocktail attack on a marked NYPD vehicle amid George Floyd protests has been suspended without pay by the prestigious law firm where he worked. “Colinford Mattis has been placed on suspension without pay, pending the resolution of the criminal proceedings. The suspension went into effect on Monday,” Ronald H. Shechtman, a managing partner at corporate Manhattan firm Pryor Cashman, said in a statement. Mattis had been furloughed since April as the firm cut costs to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Mattis, 32, was allegedly behind the wheel of a minivan as his passenger,...

In the face of civil unrest, strong leaders emerge to lead people away from lawlessness.

Complete with their organized violent antifa and blm blackshirt/brownshirt hit squads using fascist tactics to loot, burn and terrorize businesses, churches, civilans and police alike. This is the totalitarian way to gain and hold power. This is your country under socialist-democrat rule--the blue portion anyway--totally lawless.

A former high-level Obama administration intelligence official has guaranteed the $250,000 bail for the New York City lawyer who allegedly firebombed an unoccupied NYPD police cruiser early Saturday, calling the suspect her "best friend," Fox News has confirmed. The Washington Free Beacon first reported that Salmah Rizvi, who served in the Defense Department and State Department during the Obama administration, went to bat for Urooj Rahman, who was arrested this weekend alongside Pryor Cashman associate Colinford Mattis. Rizvi, an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray, told the court: "Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an...

Complete with their organized violent antifa and blm blackshirt/brownshirt hit squads using fascist tactics to loot, burn and terrorize businesses, churches, civilans and police alike. This is the totalitarian way to gain and hold power. This is your country under socialist-democrat rule--the blue portion anyway--totally lawless.

The Democrat Party is at war with America. That is the clear message of the Democrats’ responses to the crises that have engulfed our nation over the last six months, made our streets war zones, and destroyed the small business communities that are the life blood of our system. When the country was attacked by a deadly virus from China in January, the Democrats’ attacked the president’s efforts to stop it at the border, then blamed him for the 100,000 deaths that followed. Yet Democrat governors controlled the health systems of every major center of the covid19 devastation and were...

President Trump walked from The White House to St. John's Church. He has no fear and kneels before no one. Video at link.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests. Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been...

Reporting from Minneapolis, CNN reporter Sara Snider said the protesters owned the streets while wading through what appeared to be hundreds of protesters lighting buildings ablaze in the downtown area. "We are an hour and 12 minutes past curfew and, right now, the protesters rule the streets," Snider said. "The National Guard, nowhere to be seen, the state police, nowhere to be seen, the local police, nowhere to be seen, the sheriff's department, nowhere to be seen. The protesters are the ones that feel like these streets are their streets."

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Friday admitted an 'abject failure' by law enforcement in trying to control crowds of rioters who took over Minneapolis on Thursday night, torching buildings and overrunning a police station, as a city-wide curfew was declared between the hours of 8pm and 6am. . . . On Thursday, as tensions in the city boiled all day, the National Guard started putting in motion plans to intervene to help local law enforcement agencies that were struggling to cope with the mounting threat. But they weren't given the order to act quickly enough, according to officials who spoke...