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1 Woman Is Dead, Others Injured In Minneapolis After A Driver Plows Into Protesters
NPR ^ | 06 14 2021 | Jaclyn Diaz

Posted on 06/14/2021 10:53:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

One woman is dead after a man drove into a crowd of protesters late Sunday night in Minneapolis. The suspect is in custody, according to the city's police department.

Demonstrators were gathered to protest the June 3 shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., a 33-year-old Black man, by U.S. marshals in Minneapolis. At about 11:39 p.m. Sunday, a car sped into protesters that were standing along Lake Street and Girard Avenue in the city's Uptown area, hitting and injuring at least three people.

It's unclear how many protesters were at the scene at the time.

An adult woman critically injured at the scene was declared dead at the hospital as a result of the crash, police tweeted. The woman's name has been shared on social media, but NPR has been unable to confirm her identity independently. Police and the Hennepin County medical examiner's office have not released her identity and didn't immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.

A suspect was pulled from the wrecked car by protesters and restrained, according to police, as well as images and video shared online. His identity has not been released.

Two other people were injured in the crash and transferred by ambulance to an area hospital. One was later treated and released from the hospital.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: blm; cops; protests; riots
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Had Trump been President, this would be in the 24 hr news cycle. 'TRUMP CONTINUES TO FOMENT RACIAL DIVISION!'

Trump isn't President. Biden is. The media is now ignoring these confrontations.

30 min video of aftermath.

Minneapolis Minnesota Sunday June 13th 2021

1 posted on 06/14/2021 10:53:18 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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2 posted on 06/14/2021 10:54:42 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: yesthatjallen

Driving in Mogadishu is dangerous .
Third world countries have no laws of rules that people go by.
Just raw mob behavior


3 posted on 06/14/2021 10:55:17 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: yesthatjallen

More info here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3967630/posts

The header on yours is a lot more clear. 😉🙌


4 posted on 06/14/2021 10:57:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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“The media is now ignoring these confrontations.”

https://www.bing.com/search?q=minneapolis+driver+protestors&filters=ex1%3a%22ez1%22&cvid=7c51a1a581a8462fbd766e5b02bd2a35&aqs=edge..69i57.33860j0j4&PC=U531&qpvt=minneapolis+driver+protestors


5 posted on 06/14/2021 10:57:30 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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If she hadn’t been blocking the street she wouldn’t have been hit.


6 posted on 06/14/2021 10:57:42 AM PDT by Bayan
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Shame the driver wasn’t driving an 18 wheeler loaded with gasoline followed by a tanker with liquid oxygen followed by a driver hauling borax


7 posted on 06/14/2021 10:58:25 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Winston Boogie Smith Jr.

New entry for the "List of middle names to avoid giving your son unless you want him to be a criminal."

- Boogie
- Lee
- Wayne

8 posted on 06/14/2021 10:59:30 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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I read the guy was drunk and speeding. It wasn’t a confrontation; just another drunk ahole driver.


9 posted on 06/14/2021 10:59:33 AM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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just a mostly peaceful Sunday night drive, or maybe a peaceful but firey drive.


10 posted on 06/14/2021 10:59:43 AM PDT by euram
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“Protestors”? Where they blocking traffic?


11 posted on 06/14/2021 10:59:50 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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At this point we don’t know whether this was intentional, drunk driving, or an accident, unless additional information is available elsewhere.


12 posted on 06/14/2021 11:00:19 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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13 posted on 06/14/2021 11:01:15 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Who is John Galt and is he vaccinated?)
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Hmmmm.

Was the guy driving protesting the other protest?

Hmmmm.

14 posted on 06/14/2021 11:02:00 AM PDT by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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Effing NPR, Leftist scum.

"...Demonstrators were gathered to protest the June 3 shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., a 33-year-old Black man, by U.S. marshals in Minneapolis. At about 11:39 p.m. Sunday, a car sped into protesters that were standing along Lake Street and Girard Avenue in the city's Uptown area, hitting and injuring at least three people..."

If they were standing along the roadway, wouldn't that driver have had to leave the roadway to crash into them?

Evil Leftist scum. I fully expect this from NPR, but to see it...well...it angers me every time. Especially since they STILL get money from me via taxes.

15 posted on 06/14/2021 11:02:11 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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(A) I read that he hit a parked car that was being used to block the street and that the parked car hit the protesters.

(B) I read that the protesters then assaulted the driver. I thought it was wrong for (self-appointed) police to engage in violence against a “suspect”.


16 posted on 06/14/2021 11:02:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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"I read the guy was drunk and speeding. It wasn’t a confrontation; just another drunk ahole driver."

If true, the article tried to conceal that by saying the car "sped" into the crowd, suggesting it was deliberate.
17 posted on 06/14/2021 11:02:49 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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I must be a very bad person.

Somehow I can’t muster up much sympathy...I’m tired of even thinking about it.

I guess I’m just worn out on this woke stupidity...I’m shell-shocked.

Glad it is not being exhibited in my rural neck of the woods (yet)


18 posted on 06/14/2021 11:03:17 AM PDT by Bobalu (We're way past Republican versus Democrat.... This is Good versus Evil...)
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To: MAGA2017

Earlier in the day they were allegedly playing sports in the street. How much of this even was a protest vs a block party?


19 posted on 06/14/2021 11:03:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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With a name like "Boogie" you just know that he needed killin'.

20 posted on 06/14/2021 11:03:58 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I dindu nuffins.)
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