‘We’re Just Going to Walk Away From This?’ How Minneapolis Left a Police Station to Rioters

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 1, 2020 | Andrew Tangel, Joe Barrett and Erin Ailworth

[Freee-dame]

. It touched off a debate over whether the building’s abandonment helped save lives in Minneapolis or inspired more violence and destruction in the Twin Cities and elsewhere across the country

Without the days of rioting in Minneapolis, I don’t think that rioting would have happened across the country. ANTIFA types saw their greatest opportunity: Anti-police sentiment, everyone in masks, millions of young people who had just been ordered to stay home for three months and now offered a “righteous cause” which allowed them to socialize.

[dragnet2]

The image is that the police retreated. The leftists literally made the police abandon their post and left citizens unprotected.

After you took an oath to uphold the law, would you work for someone who told you to allow criminal destruction, assaults and arson to go unabated?

[Teacher317]

Protest are not mostly peaceful when buildings are burned and stores are looted.
That’s called a riot.

Oklahoma Statute (not Minnesota) 21 OS 733:
"Justifiable Homicide is defined as... lawfully suppressing any riot"...

Rioters literally sign their own death warrant in Oklahoma.