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.
Mushrooms,,,
Oh I see it now!
>>>There goes the Democrats’ talking point that looting is not violence.<<<
I’m sure that the guy died ‘mostly’ peacefully.
These riots are organized and funded. Where are the feds? Hunting boogaloo white supreemists, probably.
May ruin his Weekend,,?
His life didn’t matter.
NBCPravda and Nancy Pravdalosi have both made up things about Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville where he did INDEED denounce the neonazis and white supremacists who were there and he’s been proved RIGHT at some people protesting against the removal of statues saw that it would soon lead to call and vandalism to tear down statues of our founders George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and that HAS happened. Good people protesting against the removal of statues.
The Leftist Red Press has denied ANY bad people were doing bad things at the George Floyd “protests”.
The arsonist died in Police custody. Who will they charge?
All the way up to and including the city administration and yes, Da Mayor!
He’s black now.
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The feds could jump in and give him the death penalty. The pawn shop was owned by EZcorp, an international company. That technically would fall into the Interstate Commerce laws. Not saying they will, but they could.
Watch the Minneapolis authorities desperately try to avoid charging the guy with murder and to plead it down to something else, so they can maintain their narrative that their ‘protests’ were ‘peaceful’ and that ‘nobody was killed by protestors.’
COVID 1519?
Love crime..as opposed to a “hate crime”
He is just a PAWN in the greater scheme of things.
What is the difference between an antifa rioter torching a man to death and George Floyd being pinned to death by police?
Can we now call for the demolition of all antifa?
Sounds much better than “burned to a crisp”
That is BAD—but damn FUNNY!!!
I’m here all week. Try the veal.
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Wonder how long it will take the social workers to investigate the crime.
I was going to say that, but thought it might be in bad taste since we don’t know the victim and whether he was a fit subject for lampooning.
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