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 Floyds 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 Examiners Office in the coming days.
The pawn shop was torched on May 28 amid riots in the wake of Floyds 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, didnt 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. Were 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.
This is a great story ... not that someone died, but that it took almost two months to find out that he died. Anything to advance the #DemocraticShitholes narrative!
Three balls — spheres — is the traditional symbol of a pawnshop. I don’t know if it’s still done, but it used to be that all pawnshops had three balls hanging over their doors. It dates back to medieval times.
You've got to be pretty desperate to pawn your balls.
Oh. Now that you mention it, I have seen those three sphere signs. I just never thought about what they meant.
Thermal Injuries...? Are they like burns? I imagine the vistim.s color turned black if not from the fire from 2 month’s storage in a burned out building in the summer. We’ll see if this blackened life matters to the media as much as Floyd’s did.
I marvel at the investigative insight.
Now they're all morons - writers who can't write.
I wonder how long that video will last on Youtube.
You are obviously a better man that I.
That is one reason pro sound crews always bring a fire extinguisher. Sometimes you have to save the drummer.
Not intended as sarcasm, but merely as a statement of fact.
That would just make it felony murder instead of plain old murder.
At the very least he's now blackened. Does that count?
I imagine when half the neighborhood burns down they don’t go clearing all the rubble looking for bodies unless someone is reported missing.
I seem to recall that the pawn shop owner shot a looter and has since been arrested for murder. He is awaiting prosecution.
Perhaps they will add this death to the charges against the pawn shop owner as a "felony murder".
The State refuses to recognize a right to self-defense.
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that weve set. Weve got to have a civilian national security force thats just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They dont call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
Tag Team.
Bevelyn Beatty is the fearless black woman fighting against BLM. (The one arrested for painting over the BLM mural in NYC several times.) She has just announced they are going to file a class action lawsuit against BLM on behalf of all the Americans hurt, murdered, businesses torched etc and invites people to send in their proof about damages.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYvzqUxJE8o.
She is right, this is one way to hit them where it hurts.
Americans should also sue the tar out of cities, mayors, etc who told police to stand down and did not do their duty to protect citizens. (You can debate whether people should actually expect police to protect them, but by gosh that is what we pay taxes for and I think good cases may be made against mayors who invited terrorists to burn down their cities and harm innocent people!)
Love it!
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