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.
Mostly peaceful...
I’m pretty sure he’s all black NOW!
You beat me to it.
Whats that old saying? "Meet me down at the pawn shop and you can kiss me under the balls".
Even Nigel Tunfel saw what you did there.
I don't know ... I've posted things before that were deleted by the moderators.
Democrat mayors protect criminals, looters, and murderers...
Has the FBI found the people who supplied pallets of bricks, firecrackers and bats for antifa’s ‘burning party’? Nope, didn’t think so...
Here’s a hint: the same people who paid for bricks, matches and gasoline for our cities - also paid for tiki torches for Charlottsville. (IMHO)
Article says Floyd died in police custody, not the arsonist.
You have never heard about the girl who met her boy friend in front of the Pawn Shop and kissed him under the balls?
Where have you been hiding?
...with fire.
Lol!!!
Looting is stealing.
breaking and burning is rioting
Killing is terrorism.
Prayers to the victim’s family. May he rest in peace...
Me too! A LOT of things...
One day at work, many, many years ago, I told a joke to my colleagues that went like this: A woman has just given birth to a baby. The doctor comes into the room and says, "Ma'am, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that your baby is nothing but a giant eye." The woman starts up and cries, "Oh my God! What's the bad news?" To which the doctor replies, "The bad news is, it's blind."
Now, I got some chuckles over that, but for some strange reason a very bad feeling came over me after I had told that joke. It was a very subjective thing; just a feeling that somehow the joke wasn't right.
About three weeks later my wife gave birth to a stillborn baby that was horribly deformed.
So even though I like to joke as much as ever I did those forty years ago, I'm a bit more circumspect about it. Just a bit, mind you!
Yeah. That would do it.
I see what you did there :-)!!
Why, whatever do you mean? ~.~
Did the guy have a gun trying to protect his property?
If so, whoever burned him was only preventing this deranged man from shooting mostly peaceful rioters.
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