People gathered at Chicago Ave. and East 38th Street during a rally in Minneapolis on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Federal authorities are investigating a white Minneapolis police officer for possible civil rights violations, after a video surface showing (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Image / Getty Images)
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The protest began at the corner of 38th and Chicago on the south side of Minneapolis. Protesters were seen blocking the intersection by sitting in the crosswalks and using their own vehicles to block traffic.
People hold signs and sit on a bus stop during a protest near where a Minneapolis Police Department officer allegedly killed George Floyd, on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - A video of a handcuffed black man dying while a Minneapolis office (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Protesters damage Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct following George Floyd death
Following the death of George Floyd, protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis.
Later, protesters moved toward the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd precinct where crowds swelled. People were seen throwing rocks at the building and spray painting a police car.
Protesters continued to block traffic and keep the roads closed into the evening. As the crowds grew, the ACLU of Minnesota reminded protesters to keep their distance to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Protesters gather in Minneapolis after man dies in police custody
Protesters gathered at the scene where Minneapolis police arrested George Floyd. Floyd later died in police custody.
Later Tuesday night, Minneapolis Police responded to a shooting in the area of 38th and Chicago. Gunshots could be heard in video of the incident obtained by FOX 9. Police say one individual sustained non-life threatening injuries in that incident.
Shooting near 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis
Gunshots can be heard at 38th and Chicago Tuesday night where protesters gathered earlier in the day. Large scale protests were already occurring at the 3rd Minneapolis Police precinct when this shooting occured. (Alex Kjornes)
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(Video taken at 5:45pm but wouldn't upload due to service issues).
Sound of motorcycles revving sends crowd at George Floyd protest running, many confused or scared by what's happening. Motorcyclists actually there in support of protest/march.@WCCOpic.twitter.com/yXJpKQqMS5
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) May 27, 2020
A few mins agoin Minneapolis, from our stream: SWAT formation rapidly deployed to defend liquor store items from people entering the store after its door was broken. ~3 arrests made inside the Minnehaha Liquor by the 3rd precinct pic.twitter.com/TfSS8rCwvG
Our Minneapolis #GeorgeFloyd protest stream is back up, now with increased quality. We will stay live for you, networks permitting:https://t.co/4DTgvFtAzQ
AutoZone and Wendy’s are all but burned down at this point. Some new condos under construction have gone up in flames as well. pic.twitter.com/MXQsKwXVAM
I have one question... how exactly this is going to bring justice for #GeorgeFloyd ?
— Rosario Photography (@rosariophotog) May 28, 2020
Well great job to whoever burned it down. Lots of BLACK, white, asian and Latino adults are out of work permanently from that job. Thousands of pounds of food, gone. People, including black people relied on that. If this is real, I really hope whoever did this is found and jailed
By 1 a.m., Mayor Jacob Frey, a first-term Democrat, said he was calling in the National Guard and state police to help get the scene under control. He pleaded for peace and urged people to go home pic.twitter.com/0h4uL3UGPX
This is the Walgreens on E Lake Street. Police and firefighters stopped responding long ago. Seems like they are giving people the “space” to riot and loot all night and into the morning. When firefighters responded earlier to a fire, people began pelting rocks at them.
Rapper Cardi B says the people who broke into and looted stores in Minnesota on Wednesday were left with "no choice" but to resort to violence and steal from stores in response to the death of George Floyd, whose neck was kneeled on by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd died hours...
LA County Sheriff tells me their countywide services division is on tactical alert, as is their Central Patrol Division. Countywide services is responsible for providing security to all county buildings and Grand Park. @FOXLA
BREAKING: Protrsters now breaking the windows of CHP vehicles. It appears one protester may have been hit by a car and is motionless on the ground. @FOXLApic.twitter.com/vz6zWuicNZ
HOLY SHIT. The cop who started the vandalizing was outted by people who know him. His name is Jacob Pederson of the St. Paul PD. pic.twitter.com/vgw8EqKz5j
A protester carries the carries a U.S. flag upside-down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building on May 28, in Minneapolis. Julio Cortez/AP
Protests swept across a number of major American cities on Thursday, with crowds taking to the streets to demand action against police brutality and accountability for several related deaths.
Minneapolis and St. Paul, known as the "Twin Cities" of Minnesota, both saw huge protests. In St. Paul, protesters faced off against riot police, batting tear gas canisters back and forth. More than 170 businesses were looted or damaged by the protests, police said.
Tear gas is fired as protesters clash with police while demonstrating outside the 3rd Precinct.
Tear gas is fired as protesters clash with police while demonstrating outside the 3rd Precinct. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
And in Minneapolis, thousands of protesters surrounded a police precinct and set it on fire. They spray-painted the sides of the building, tried to climb up it, and cheered as the flames engulfed the building.
All staff inside had been evacuated prior to the fire.
A protester winces in pain after being sprayed with pepper spray by police during a demonstration near the Memphis Police Department precinct in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 28.
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The Puppet Master revealed his battle plans right there in January 2020.
The riots have now started in New York I am so sick of the same obvious Deep State Agendas playing endlessly costing American Lives and destroying our Country!
Soros January 2020: "His problem is that the elections are still 10 months away, and in a [revolutionary situation], that's a lifetime" - ...then we had the virus and now obviously organized riots.
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May 30th, 2020, 05:13
Ryan Ruck
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Dallas live
May 30th, 2020, 05:20
Ryan Ruck
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D.C.
May 30th, 2020, 05:39
Ryan Ruck
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Indy
May 30th, 2020, 05:46
Ryan Ruck
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Phoenix
May 30th, 2020, 05:51
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Columbus
May 30th, 2020, 07:35
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Oakland
Breaking: The situation in Oakland is out of control. Multiple businesses are on fire including a Mercedes dealership, a Walgreens, a Chase Bank branch, a Starbucks, and others. Rioters have stolen a construction vehicle and are using it to inflict damage. pic.twitter.com/dHXu9F6644
Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War
Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.
Far-right extremists are showing up, with guns, to the protests against police brutality that have exploded across the country.
Others are egging on the violence from behind their computers, urging followers to carry out acts of violence against black protesters with the goal of sparking a “race war.”
Their presence makes an uneasy addition to the escalating unrest, which was triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was choked to death by a white Minneapolis police officer earlier this week.
But there’s a range of motivations that’s driving far-right interest toward the protests, which are being led by community members and Black Lives Matter, and bolstered by antifascists.
The “boogaloo” is code for impending civil war or violent confrontation with law enforcement, and that’s what they’re hoping to get out of the protests. Their main reason for being there is their antipathy toward law enforcement, and so they’re trying to position themselves as allies of Black Lives Matter protesters. They’ve made police brutality one of their central issues, which was explored at length in a Bellingcat article this week.
Their approach to police brutality links the victims of the deadly standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992, to the victims of modern police brutality, including Floyd. But unlike the vast majority of protesters, they refuse to acknowledge the fact that police brutality is an issue that disproportionately impacts people of color.
Another photo, shared across private Boogaloo Facebook pages, showed one of their own unfurling their trademark flag during the Minneapolis protests.
And one protester posted a picture of himself wearing a gas mask to Instagram, under the hashtag #Boogaloo.
While some Boogaloo Bois say they’re just libertarians, others will, on occasion, veer into racism — and make no secret of their desire for violence. In addition to their physical presence at the protests, the #boogaloo hashtag on social media has been flooded with memes in the last couple days egging on violence, and talking about how they hope this is the beginning of a civil war.
While more established militia types sometimes share those perspectives, they often view themselves as intermediaries between law enforcement and civilians. For example, two armed white men were interviewed by the Minnesota Reformer, a local independent news organization, outside a tobacco store in Minneapolis this week. They said they were protecting businesses from looters, but were also there to defend civilians should they need to.
“Cops are less likely to tread on people’s rights when there’s other armed people around them,” one of the men told the interviewer.
Local activists identified another group in Minneapolis as members of the III% militia, one of the largest militia networks in the U.S.
But perhaps the most troubling of all are the hardcore “accelerationists” who are encouraging their neo-Nazi followers to go to the protests and carry out acts of violence against black people — all with the goal of “exacerbating the ethnic tensions” and sparking a “race war.”
Accelerationists promote violence to speed up the collapse of society. An eco-fascist Telegram channel wrote to its nearly 2,500 subscribers on Thursday that “a riot would be the perfect place to commit a murder.” Accelerationists often seek to exploit moments of political or civil unrest, and the widespread protests that have unfolded across the country fit the bill. Similarly, 4chan is full of racists cheering the violence and saying that they hope it’s the beginning of a “race war.”
Cover: Protesters are trapped between police and other protesters who gathered in a call for justice for George Floyd following his death, outside the 3rd Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)
Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War
Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.
LOL! No they're not Vice. :lool:
May 31st, 2020, 02:00
Ryan Ruck
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Looks like more activities tonight.
Cincy PD just used gas on a crowd in front of Cincy PD HQ. Things are a bit quiet now but it didn't pick up until after midnight last night. Lots of Cincy PD with the old PR-24s to dole out some hickory shampoo and some of the police carrying actual AR/M4 rifles.
I'm seeing there's stuff going on in Miami and Salt Lake City tonight too. No idea on extent. Chicago ramped up today.
May 31st, 2020, 03:08
Ryan Ruck
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Jacksonville
May 31st, 2020, 03:23
Ryan Ruck
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Ohio National Guard deploying to Columbus and Cleveland.
KY Guard in Louisville.
May 31st, 2020, 04:05
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DC looks bad...
May 31st, 2020, 04:06
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OGs in LA showing how a real riot goes.
May 31st, 2020, 04:17
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Originally Posted by Ryan Ruck
LOL! No they're not Vice. :lool:
Yep...Leftist Projection.
May 31st, 2020, 04:35
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CHAOS: Police officers dragged through the street in Chicago
I was huddled with about a dozen other journalists on the steps to the Renwick Gallery when police pulled us off and herded us through the fight. pic.twitter.com/qLilbSaanA
#BREAKING: People in Fayetteville, North Carolina have now set the Market House on fire. It is said to be a National Historic Landmark which has ties to slave sales in the 19th century. h/t @PMBreakingNewspic.twitter.com/iYnLUR9isx
I was huddled with about a dozen other journalists on the steps to the Renwick Gallery when police pulled us off and herded us through the fight. pic.twitter.com/qLilbSaanA
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A US Secret Service police vehicle outside the White House has been vandalized by protesters with graffiti, seen in video shot by CNN.
CNN’s camera captured video of one protester spraying words disparaging the President. That vehicle's front windshield has also been broken. A second Secret Service vehicle next to it has also been sprayed.
Several protesters are standing on top of Secret Service vehicles positioned in front of the police line on Pennsylvania Ave.
CNN has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
Ohio governor activates National Guard, calls in State Highway Patrol to assist with protests in Columbus
From CNN’s Taylor Romine
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced during a Saturday news conference that he is activating the National Guard to help protect citizens in response to protests across the state.
DeWine is also asking State Highway Patrol to help law enforcement in Columbus at the request of Mayor Andrew Ginther and Maj. Gen. John Harris of the Ohio National Guard.
Sadly there is a relatively small number of violent individuals who pose a specific threat and a real threat to our law enforcement officers and the safety of people in Columbus and Franklin County," DeWine said.
The governor said that although the vast majority of protesters just want to be heard, they are being drowned out by the violence of a smaller group of people. DeWine said he decided to activate the National Guard to "drive out hate and violence, and to instill order."
#BREAKING: People in Fayetteville, North Carolina have now set the Market House on fire. It is said to be a National Historic Landmark which has ties to slave sales in the 19th century. h/t @PMBreakingNewspic.twitter.com/iYnLUR9isx