Posted on 07/21/2020 8:05:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
A body was discovered in the rubble of a pawn shop that rioters burned down in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody.
Investigators going through the burned wreckage at Max It Pawn on Lake Street in Minneapolis found a dead body of what is believed to be an adult male.
A Minnesota resident, 25-year-old Montez Terriel Lee, was charged last month with arson of the pawn shop.
Being that the body found in the rubble “appeared to have suffered thermal injuries,” investigators believe there is a connection between the arson and the death, John Elder, a Minneapolis police spokesman, told The Epoch Times in an email.
Minneapolis Police homicide detectives have taken over the case. The identity, along with the nature and cause of death, will be released by the Medical Examiner’s Office in the coming days.
The pawn shop was torched on May 28 amid riots in the wake of Floyd’s death. The black man died in police custody on Memorial Day after being accused of forgery.
Rioters burned down or damaged hundreds of stores in the Twin Cities.
EZCorp, the company that owns Max It Pawn, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The shop is located several blocks from the Third Precinct, a police station that was torched after city officials ordered officers to abandon it.
Lee was captured on video pouring liquid from a metal container throughout the shop, according to charging documents (pdf).
Another video showed Lee standing in front of the burning store. After one man asks him, “What you do, Tez?” he says: “[expletive] this place. We’re gonna burn this [expletive] down.”
A third video showed a group of men, including Lee, joking about restaurants they planned to “hit” next. Another portion of that video showed looting of the pawn shop.
Now, it’s MURDER...
Being that the body found in the rubble “appeared to have suffered thermal injuries,” investigators believe there is a connection between the arson and the death,
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Ya reckon???
Found in pawn shop with 3 balls.
Only if he’s black. White? not so much.
Since the left believes in collective responsibility, then I propose that all the rioters be arrested and all charged with murder, arson, theft, kidnapping, intimidation and destruction of property.
Unfortunately, it won’t happen - the corrupt mayors made sure none of them ever paid the penalty for their crimes.
Unless he was an accomplice
Not murder. He died of the China flu.
There goes the Democrats’ talking point that looting is not violence.
More people died in the Biden rallies of 2020 than all of the Trump rallies of 2016.
More deaths than at the Obama voter coordinated “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville.
Commies are our enemy. Why are they allowed free reign. Waiting for the ok. Well mr President? How long do we sit on our hands?
>>Unless he was an accomplice
If they had both gone into a convenience store and tried to rob the clerk and his pal got shot, he’d be liable for the death of his cohort.
It still carries the murder charge.
They are just now finding this body?
If the antibodies are found in the murder victim’s system, that’s what it will be labeled as.
Murdering people seems to be an odd way to “protest”. The “summer of love” seems to be the “summer of murdering innocent people”. These “biden rallies” need to be stopped.
There was a woman motorist assaulted and murdered on the first night of riots. It’s been murder all along.
“Inspector Clay is dead. Murdered... and SOMEBODY’S responsible!!!” - Plan 9 From Outer Space (written by Edward D. Wood Jr.)
After almost 2 months, there can’t be much left. Especially since it’s summer.
Those detectives are sharp as knives, they are................
Must have been a ‘peaceful’ murder...............
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