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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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To: euram

I believe the NG and LEO withdrew to safer locations.


21 posted on 05/30/2020 7:40:56 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: I want the USA back

One participant said when it’s empty downtown they’ll be headed to the suburbs. Yeah, that’s a great plan.


22 posted on 05/30/2020 7:42:22 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Joe Biden finally got his rallies.


23 posted on 05/30/2020 7:42:25 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rktman

We have not had the fortitude to conduct a real war for many years. Now we find out we don’t even have the fortitude to stop riots in our own country.


24 posted on 05/30/2020 7:42:49 AM PDT by suthener
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To: euram
(Soros and others)

If he and his crew aren't prime candidates for some drone work, I don't know what is.

25 posted on 05/30/2020 7:42:53 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: mosaicwolf

MN national guard. 34th infantry division. Red Bulls


26 posted on 05/30/2020 7:43:51 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: rktman

Oh the irony! Democrats burning down democrat cities.


27 posted on 05/30/2020 7:46:42 AM PDT by Voltage
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To: rktman

Cops and NG ran.


28 posted on 05/30/2020 7:51:34 AM PDT by moovova
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To: rktman

Even the governor knows that those most bent on destruction and devastation are coming in form elsewhere. (”Antifa” is the word he’s looking for but dare not say.)


29 posted on 05/30/2020 7:52:59 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: rktman

It is way past the time when the DOJ/FBI declare Antifa a domestic terrorist organization and treat them accordingly. Those that are suspected to be a part of the outsider group present in Mineapolis should taken into custody, investigated and their associations traced to the top leadership. These heathens are interested only in the destruction of law and order.


30 posted on 05/30/2020 7:53:29 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: rktman

The Floyd death has changed from a reason to demonstrate to an excuse for anarchy.


31 posted on 05/30/2020 7:57:54 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rktman

1. One squad of snipers.
2. Shoot rioters in the legs.
3. Try for the knee as it is most painful but not fatal
4. Riot over
5. If riot is not over, center mass full auto. Riot will be over.


32 posted on 05/30/2020 8:00:13 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: rktman

I am sitting in front of my tv watching the mayor of Minneapolis say that they failed to protect the city because they do not have the numbers of police necessary to stop the looters and arsonist. He said that if they successfully placed a policeman in front of every business that asked for help, the ratio would have been 1 policeman against 100 looters and arsonist. Hey, mayor, when your policemen legally carry guns to be used in their protection and the protection of the citizens and their property, then do the numbers really matter. No! They do not have to shoot to kill. Just a couple of wounded will disperse hundreds of looters and arsonist. Even the professional, paid Antifa instigators will get the hell out of Dodge if they think their personal self is in real danger.


33 posted on 05/30/2020 8:06:38 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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To: elpadre

Between the Red Chinese virus and this retreat of taxpayer-funded law enforcement, those impacted businesses should never pay another cent in tax.

When you pay cops, this behavior isn’t acceptable.

Here in NJ, most fire departments are volunteers while a few are still paid (holdovers from our manufacturing heyday, originally funded by businesses, now primarily by homeowners). Volunteers can refuse to enter a burning building; not so for the paid departments - there is a reason for that (more like many thousands of reasons).


34 posted on 05/30/2020 8:07:20 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: cpdiii
Shoot rioters in the legs.

Leg shots can be as deadly as chest shots
35 posted on 05/30/2020 8:10:29 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: kearnyirish2; All

“those impacted businesses should never pay another cent in tax”

I expect businesses to initiate a class action suit against the publishers Twitter and Facebook for allowing their platforms to be used for organizing this mayhem.


36 posted on 05/30/2020 8:22:14 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: akalinin

When my cousin went to the FBI shooting course, they were taught that in dangerous situations they should aim for the “d!ck”, causing the threat to collapse (broken pelvic bone) and bleed (several big arteries).


37 posted on 05/30/2020 8:24:58 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rktman

Which party runs Minni? Begins with a D.

*************

Welcome to the jungle. Elections have consequences as they say.


38 posted on 05/30/2020 8:29:59 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: rktman

How come all these Riots and Civil Unrest where the inhabitants BURN down their own neighborhoods and businesses only happen in DEMOCRAT Controlled Cities???


39 posted on 05/30/2020 8:33:27 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Spruce

Governor Walz claims 80% of rioters are not from Minnesota. He says they are tracing it to cartels and white supremacists. He has finally called up the full force of the National Guard which will be somewhere between 2500 and 13000. No firm number. Walz still won’t accept military police. He doesn’t like the “look” of federal troops in the state.


40 posted on 05/30/2020 8:34:55 AM PDT by Queen of Excelsior
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