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Minneapolis Anarchy: Lack of National Guard and Police Protection Leads to Another Night of Looting and Destruction
townhall.com ^ | 5/29/2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 05/30/2020 7:26:01 AM PDT by rktman

Minneapolis has once again descended into chaos. The police have retreated. And where is the National Guard? Well, they set up a defensive perimeter, and then they ran away. I’m not kidding. Our own Julio Rosas is on the ground reporting on the chaos and was hit with a rubber bullet in the chest in the process.

A curfew was imposed, but of course, no one is following it. Did people think that would be adhered to in this situation? It’s anarchy. It’s chaos. And I guess we cannot be shocked, given that the political leadership gave a stand-down order last night and allowed rioters to overrun and burn down a police headquarters.

First reports show that around 500 National Guardsmen have been deployed. That is not enough. Today, the Guard and police showed up just in time to protect the smoldering ruins of Minneapolis only to be pushed back by an unruly mob. Is this worse than the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore or the Michael Brown chaos in Ferguson?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: minneapolis; minnesota; mnriots; protestmybutt; riot; riots
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WUUUTTTTT! The ignored the curfew? Srsly? WOW! They're in trouble now. Course it ain't just minni, but various other locations too. Saw where an LEO was killed in, I believe Oakland, last night during a peaceful demonstration and another one wounded. And it's just Saturday morning. Seems pretty well orchestrated to me. Let me think. Which party runs Minni? Begins with a D.
1 posted on 05/30/2020 7:26:01 AM PDT by rktman
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If I were Trump, I would chide their (leftist) mayor and governor for letting the city burn. Offer Federal help, but only if used properly.


2 posted on 05/30/2020 7:27:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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Not only did they ignore the curfew, they ignored the Covid shelter in place rules!

This was a recipe for disaster.


3 posted on 05/30/2020 7:27:59 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Why, next thing you’ll see is folks going to church!!! /s


4 posted on 05/30/2020 7:29:32 AM PDT by abb
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Offer Federal help, but only if used properly.

No! Not a dime of Federal money to help these liberal/communist bastards. They made their liberal shitholes let them lie in them!

5 posted on 05/30/2020 7:29:47 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Follow the fearless mayor


6 posted on 05/30/2020 7:29:57 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: unixfox

Went to Texas Roadhouse last night for some chow. Majority of folks waiting to be seated were not wearing PPE. Then there was one table where the patrons wore them until the food showed up and when they finished promptly donned their PPE again. Some places folks wear them constantly others, not so much. So it seems SIP is wearing thin on a lot of folks including the peaceful protestors. NOT! They should be fined for littering.


7 posted on 05/30/2020 7:32:08 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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At least the thieves, thugs, vandals, and arsonists are wearing their COVID mask! Remember: "We're all in this together."

A protester breaks a window with a chair during a protest in downtown Los Angeles last night

8 posted on 05/30/2020 7:32:26 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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500 NG troops!! What a joke! You need to send a division in to clean this mess up.


9 posted on 05/30/2020 7:32:56 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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None of these events should come as a surprise to anybody. The Commies have been telling us for the past several months that this summer was going to be riots from coast to coast. The “Russia Collusion” thing didn’t work. Nor did “Quid Pro Quo” or that kangaroo court “impeachment” bullsh*t. The Commies then went for broke with their ChiComVirus and that was an epic fail as well. Now they think rioting, looting and mayhem is going to get rid of President Trump. This too shall fail.

I say that we need to slap those Commies in the face and then put them in their place.


10 posted on 05/30/2020 7:33:06 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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The Guard would have fled after being ordered to do so. And only 500 assigned to this?

This is going to get expensive. Folks outside the city will need to develop a functional tactical plan in the next few minutes.


11 posted on 05/30/2020 7:33:29 AM PDT by lurk
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Wanna stop all this rioting and looting? Tell the Governors they’re holding church services.


12 posted on 05/30/2020 7:36:49 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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It’s not that they really wanted to violate the curfew, they were all waiting for the weepy-eyed pansy mayor to bring them masks.

Instead of the police and NG “holding ground” why don’t they send in helicopters to saturate the rioters with teargas or pepper spray and then advance on them and sweep up as much of the trash as possible. That, and arrest or shoot the instigators and their paymasters (Soros and others).


13 posted on 05/30/2020 7:37:26 AM PDT by euram
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Anyone know what type (Branch) the Guard unit was?


14 posted on 05/30/2020 7:37:58 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: rktman

I have been telling my wife for years that liberals and the media have been at war against us deplorables for years and the go along to get along Republicans like Paul Ryan, John McCain, and Mitt Romney enabled them. The war has now been made fully apparent in 2020 and the average American thinks this violence will eventually pass.

It’s only going to get worse.


15 posted on 05/30/2020 7:38:12 AM PDT by Navin Johnson
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Guess pedo joe needs to adjust his comment from the other day. “If you ain’t ‘protesting’, you ain’t black, man!” That little kerfuffle sure vanished in light of the new race component eh.


16 posted on 05/30/2020 7:38:30 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Locked and loaded. But that’s the standard here. Except for the boating accident that is.


17 posted on 05/30/2020 7:39:40 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Not only did they ignore the curfew, they ignored the Covid shelter in place rules! However, most had their masks on and were close to 6’ feet away from other looters.

Rejoice! most had masks on! Hallelujah!

18 posted on 05/30/2020 7:40:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( If the reason you're wearing a mask is to protect me, stay home. If you are sick, stay home!)
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Neither the police nor the guard will be given orders to shoot anyone who is setting fire to a building or attacking people. But they should get that order. Police are supposed to be there to protect people. They are not going to be allowed to protect anyone. It’s a given that the police are not allowed to shoot looters. No way. The looters are taking “reparations” from their “oppressors” for years of “oppression.” They have a right to take things.

So this will continue several more nights, or until there are no more sneakers to steal, no more Whitey buildings to burn down, no more little old ladies on wheelchairs to attack. It is being fueled by the usual hate-America crowd.


19 posted on 05/30/2020 7:40:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government more than the Chinese bug.)
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It all started as organic, peaceful protests at the intersection where the incident happened

Then the out-of-towners showed up and started escalating things

Then the professional anarchists showed up and sacked a police precinct house

Last night we saw foreign agents directing the unrest. The governor came out at 1:30am and during his statements let it slip that they were not prepared for the military tactics being employed against the police.

This is asymmetric warfare


20 posted on 05/30/2020 7:40:18 AM PDT by Spruce
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