Posted on 06/01/2020 7:34:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) said Sunday that Minneapolis protesters who defied the governor's curfew orders Friday and Saturday night were "terrorized" by the National Guard and police enforcing the governor's orders.
"There really was also many people who chose to demonstrate and not abide by the curfew, who felt like they also were terrorized by the presence of tanks, by the presence of the National Guard and a militarized police," Omar said on ABC's This Week.
The Minneapolis protests, which started last week in response to the death of a black man held in police custody, took a violent turn Wednesday night when protesters burned and looted cars and businesses. On Thursday night, rioters set the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct on fire.
On Friday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) ordered an 8 p.m. curfew and pleaded with protesters to abide by it, hoping to separate those who wished to incite violence from peaceful protesters. By Saturday morning, after repeated nights of violent clashes between police and protesters, Walz said in a press conference that the protests were pursuing destruction rather than justice.
"Let's be very clear, the situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear, and disrupting our great cities," the governor said.
Many did not obey the governor's curfew Friday or Saturday, but increased National Guard presence Saturday night prevented the damage from being as severe as the previous two nights.
The killing of George Floyd, an African-American man and Minneapolis resident, by Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, sparked a national outcry and protests in cities nationwide against police brutality this week.
Clearly, NOT ENOUGH!
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Nice to hear from our elected officials.
Well, Ms. Omar, what do you suppose caused that to be? How long is it going to take you to realize that you are part of the problem? Don’t you suppose the people doing the rioting & looting have something to do with the problems? Police & National Guard are there to keep it from getting worse than it is; you seem to be more part of stirring things up.
yeah....counter-insurgency from 35,000 ft.
maybe an arc light strike is what is needed.
Remember no arc lights if friendliest within 15 miles.
A$$hole = Someone who every time he/she opens his/her mouth, sh!t comes out. Did she notice that the tanks did not open fire? Those scary white guys in Michigan with the guns didn’t open fire, either. The “demonstrators,” however, did open fire with whatever they had, be it guns, flares, firebombs or rocks.
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