Posted on 04/12/2021 7:43:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The National Guard has been called out to control rioting in the wake of a police shooting in the northern Minneapolis lower-middle-class suburb of Brooklyn Center (whose Caucasian population is 44.5% according to Census Bureau estimates). Rioters behaved with a hair trigger response, with at least one shot fired into the police station, and looting reported locally and many miles distant, on Lake Street in Minneapolis, which received the brunt of the riot, looting, and arson damage following the drug overdose death of George Floyd while in police custody.
KARE TV 11 reports:
A curfew is in place for the city of Brooklyn Center through 6 a.m. Monday after tensions following a shooting involving law enforcement.
A large crowd gathered near the scene as the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigated the fatal shooting of a driver following a traffic stop. (snip)
[N]umerous law enforcement agencies were called to assist as hundreds gathered outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Headquarters.
"Within hours of that, a secondary group, we heard, was at the Shingle Creek Mall...and we have reports of approximately 20 businesses that were broken into during that period,"
According to Brooklyn Center Police, whose body cameras reportedly were functioning, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was stopped for a minor traffic infraction (a deodorizer hanging from his rearview mirror) and fled the scene when it was determined that an arrest warrant was out for him. An officer fired at his fleeing vehicle and fatally wounded him, as his vehicle crashed, injuring a female passenger who accompanied him.
A state agency that reports to the liberal Democrat Governor Tm Walz, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, is investigating the police shooting. But rioters and looters sprang into action gathering outside police headquarters, where they were tear gassed, and taking the opportunity to loot elsewhere
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They need the Air Guard to drop cluster bombs not a bunch of grunts standing about with unleaded firearms.
Police car trampoline - “Ooga booga ooga booga...”
American police officers should do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. In fact, I recommend they quit, forthwith, find now employment and limit any future policing to that of their families and immediate community.
RE: They need the Air Guard to drop cluster bombs not a bunch of grunts standing about with unleaded firearms.
Speaking about riots, were the shootings of rioters at Kent State University where Four University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970 by the Ohio National Guard justified?
now = new
It’s as if, any time a black criminal is being arrested, we will see riots.
How does rioting over and over, endear anyone to the political movement of black lives matter?
There was an outstanding warrant for this guy. But facts don’t matter to rioting mobs. But again, if the goal is to gain public support for their movement, how does rioting help?
RE: In fact, I recommend they quit, forthwith, find now employment
What job can they take that pays the same?
When you build in the potential cost of going to prison for doing your job, any job pays better.
Separately, riots, violence, and looting need to be put down forcefully and immediately. Too many cities have made this acceptable, when it should be treated with overwhelming force. Everyone involved should be arrested, jailed, prosecuted, and kept in jail. Make the cost too high, set some very public examples.
We’ll have burning and looting in all out big cities this summer no matter what. No one will fight back.
we have reaped the whirlwind...
the summer will be long and hot...
Looks like they are fixin to have some big parties this summer, I hope Chauvin is found Not Guilty just so I can watch the FIRES!!
“...and fled the scene when it was determined that an arrest warrant was out for him. An officer fired at his fleeing vehicle and fatally wounded him...”
I’m withholding judgement ‘til more facts come in. Yes, it appears as though the suspect was no saint. However, how can the cops justify shooting at a suspect who’s driving away?
I’m just asking. Don’t flame me.
Multiculturalism doesn’t work
The perp had a deodorizer hanging from his rearview mirror.
The people of Minnesota and this entire nation are now safe from the existential threat of a deodorizer hanging from a rearview mirror.
We don’t know what happened. If she shot him in the back as he drove away she was wrong. However, if she shot him because he was driving the car at her (as a weapon) or another officer she is not wrong.
We should all reserve judgment. The initial narrative of these events is rarely “the truth” as more facts become known....
Sadly, our media, politicians, and activists do not reserve judgment. They push the narrative no matter what.
Kent State was not as bad as this
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