[ April 19, 2024 ]
No amount of deception or deflection will change the unalterable fact that this is all the left.
A security expert says intelligence reports indicate most of the hard-core protesters in Minneapolis are far-left or anarchists, and that far-right groups have not yet made a significant appearance.https://t.co/pkJAKjkYYj
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 30, 2020
The official narrative being rewritten by Democrats is that it can’t be antifa & extreme leftists behind the violence. Or BLM. Instead, it is blamed on phantom “white nationalists.” If they believed this, they wouldn’t be supporting jail funds for the people arrested. pic.twitter.com/opfKuS8mDs
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 31, 2020
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MINNEAPOLIS — Drifting out of the shadows in small groups, dressed in black, carrying shields and wearing knee pads, they head toward the front lines of the protest. Helmets and gas masks protect and obscure their faces, and they carry bottles of milk to counteract tear gas and pepper spray.
Most of them appear to be white. They carry no signs and don’t want to speak to reporters. Trailed by designated “medics” with red crosses taped to their clothes, these groups head straight for the front lines of the conflict.
Night after night in this ravaged city, these small groups do battle with police and the National Guard, kicking away tear gas canisters and throwing back foam-rubber projects fired at them. Around them, fires break out. Windows are smashed. Parked cars destroyed. USA TODAY reporters have witnessed the groups on multiple nights, in multiple locations. Sometimes they threaten those journalists who photograph them destroying property.
The mayor and governor say outside agitators are hijacking peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd and literally fanning the flames of destruction. And experts say things will likely get worse in Minneapolis and in other cities seeing similar peaceful protests that turn violent like Los Angeles; Louisville, Kentucky; Des Moines, Iowa; Detroit, Atlanta; and Washington, D.C.
“The real hard-core guys, this is their job: They’re involved in this struggle,” said Adam Leggat, a former British Army counterterrorism officer who now works as a security consultant specializing in crowd management for the Densus Group. “They need protests on the street to give them cover to move in.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said protests in the city Tuesday were largely peaceful and organized by local residents, but that the “dynamic has changed over the last several days.”
“I want to be very, very clear: The people that are doing this are not Minneapolis residents,” Frey said Saturday.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, without providing specifics, said he believes 80% of the people now taking part in the overnight rioting are from outside Minnesota.
“There are detractors. There are white supremacists. There are anarchists,” Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said Saturday afternoon.
However, a civil arrest list provided by the public information officer of the St. Paul Police Department shows 12 of the 18 people arrested from Thursday through 6 a.m. Saturday were from Minnesota. Five of them are from St. Paul, three are from Woodbury (part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area), two are from Minneapolis, one is from Mankato and one is from St. Louis Park. Four are from out of state and two did not have cities of residence listed.
The mayor later acknowledged the majority of arrests so far have been of Minnesota residents.
Leggat, the security consultant, said intelligence reports from his colleagues indicate most of the hard-core protesters in Minneapolis are far-left or anarchists, and that far-right groups have not yet made a significant appearance. He said looting is typically done by locals – usually people with no criminal record who just get caught up in the moment.
But direct conflicts with authorities come from a mix of both locals and outside groups who see these conflicts as a core part of their mission. Many of the anarchists, he said, target banks, chain-type businesses and even luxury cars as symbols of corrupt institutions. He said even a peaceful protest can turn violent if outside agitators decide to participate, hijacking the message.
“The difficulty is that you have no control over who turns up,” he said. “If this was to continue to go on, more people will come. And potentially you could have people on the right turning up, which would make things far more complicated. If those guys turn up, they will claim to be there to protect business. But it means the police will have two groups to keep apart. And that uses up a lot of police resources.”
Many protesters interviewed by USA TODAY reporters decried the violence, although some said it was a predicable result of generations of anger and suffering. Speaking to a large crowd on Friday afternoon, Minneapolis activist Kon Johnson, 45, said people who have subjugated for so long are finally lashing out. He said the violence has at least gotten the world’s attention.
“What is it going to take to get people to listen?” Johnson said. “They say, ‘don’t incite violence,’ but no one is listening. What does it take to get them to listen? I mean, do we have to take this to the suburbs? To the capital? What’s it going to take to get them to listen? We can’t keep burning stuff down.”
Johnson, an activist and performer, said the arrest of Derek Chauvin, the police officer seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, is a good first step. Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. But he said it’s only the first step toward delivering justice to the community.
“I don’t want to burn down sh– either. I don’t,” Johnson said. “But guess what? It’s gonna happen if this fool does not get life in jail.”
8 minutes, 46 seconds and ‘inherently dangerous’:What’s in the criminal complaint in the George Floyd case
Pamela Oliver, a sociology expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in protests, said politicians sometimes blame outsiders for causing trouble as a way of pretending there’s no real problem within a community. That’s not what’s happening here, she said: Political leaders acknowledge Floyd’s death focused sharp attention on longstanding problems.
Instead, she said, many Minneapolis residents may see rioting and destruction as a legitimate way to push back on police repression.
“When the police aggressively punish peaceful protest by firing rubber bullets and tear gas, the protesters often escalate their tactics. In contexts in which the police or other authorities have been acting in repressive ways towards communities, there can be a celebratory air when rebellion occurs in what is called a riot,” she said. “I have definitely read claims by Minneapolis residents that the police have been so bad that a rebellious response is appropriate.”
But many Minneapolis residents appear to be growing weary of the violence and destruction, while still supporting peaceful protests. Clearing rubble from a burned-out Walgreens on Saturday, Daniel Braun, 34, said he was sad to see the damage to his neighborhood.
“There’s civil rights and then there’s burning things down,” said Braun, an attorney. “During the day, everything is peaceful. It’s only at night when things happen. Once night falls, please, go home. When it’s dark out and you’re there, you’re not making anything better.”
Insanely brave.
This security guard took the stolen Seattle PD’s AR-15 away from this ANTIFA member who was threatening the safety of others around.
They then called and waited for the cops to show up and handed the rifle back over to the cops.https://t.co/zeKRK6rAz9
— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) May 31, 2020
A protester who has been outside some of the most intense scenes this week – the Minnehaha Mall on the south side on Thursday and Uptown on Friday – said his experiences with riots and protests leads him to believe most violence demonstrators are not from Minneapolis or St. Paul.
Arsonists and people breaking into buildings are “definitely” not from the neighborhoods they are damaging, Augustine Zion Livingstone said.
“Ain’t no black person burning down no damn barbershops in their hood,” Livingstone, 23, said. “We’re not doing that.”
Some locals are participating in looting once buildings have been breached, but he said they’re in the minority when compared with peaceful protesters.
“We’re not destroying buildings, we’re not burning buildings,” said Livingston, who also was a main speaker during Friday’s marches and protests at the Hennepin County Government Center.
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19 Comments
3 years ago
A specific point. Blocking of major highways by ‘protestors’ are TERRORISTS ACTS and should be treated as such.
3 years ago
they are doing this in liberal areas because they know they will not be charged. kieth ellison is a BIG supporter of antifa and is the attorney general
3 years ago
Reply to
joe shmoe
For them, It’s a business. They are paid to do it, their expenses are paid, and they will riot for whatever reason at all. Since they are paid to do it, they don’t care WHY they are doing it.
French term = Agents Provacateurs, is an old term still used by Intel agencies. They are agents who are paid to provoke trouble. And who benefits?
3 years ago
For propaganda to be effective, it has to be plausible or have a smidgeon of truth. If the Left thinks that pinning the looting and arson on right wing extremists is going to fly, they are foolish, desperate or both.
Further more, Trump’s going to pound away at blaming the Radical Left. If Biden counters by blaming right wing extremists, he will be trashed.
3 years ago
Notice when antifa is involved, The police stand down.
3 years ago
How convenient it is to blame outside actors for the violence. First we hear it from the politicians, then we hear it from the “protesters”. It doesn’t matter who they are or where they’re from… they are in your communities rioting, looting, burning, menacing and committing crimes. The bigger problem here is that everything is always someone else’s fault. These people, regardless of their political affiliation or status in the community will not take responsibility for their own shortcomings… they will not own their own mistakes and failures.
3 years ago
“Far-left or anarchists?” Wonder what took them so long to figure that out…
3 years ago
“Pamela Oliver, a sociology expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in protests, ”
A truly objective individual…from the UW website:
“Pam’s work on racial disparities in criminal justice has a large public component: she serves on the board of several non-profit organizations and community advisory committees concerned with criminal justice issues and has made dozens of presentations to public officials and general audiences as well as given numerous interviews to various news media about patterns of racial disparity in imprisonment. Click here to see a links to data and graphs on racial disparities in criminal justice as well as working papers on the subject.
Pam has recently opened a blog that addresses issues at the intersection of racial justice, social movements, and the criminal justice system.” And
“She is no longer teaching regular classes and is not eligible to take on new graduate advisees, but she remains involved in the Wisconsin Sociology community and has an NSF-funded research project. Her research has two main branches: collective action and social movements, and racial disparities in criminal justice.”
3 years ago
I have not watch MSNBC in many years, probably 10 years, at least, at all.
But I’ve watched it quite a bit over the past three days. Obviously an enemy-staffed, enemy-funded insurgency organ operating in the clear light of day, purportedly legally, with the most evil intent and overthrow as its core mission.
And these people on-air there are truly effed up in the head. No parental supervision.
Today, I’m watching the craven lunatic and vicious propagandist of Satan known as “Joy Reid.”
This nasty reptile is sitting on her ugly black ass with her hideous face in the frame of the camera and interviewing another smug ingrate and fool “Ali Velshi.” This scum, in the guise of a prodigious American reporter, is standing in front of a burned out hulk of twisted I-beam and piles of charred cinder blocks in Minneapolis when “Joy Reid” introduces him saying, “It looks like you’re standing in front of some kind of construction.”
Construction!
That’s how screwed up in the head, twisted, evil and socially poisonous “Joy Reid” is.
To “Joy Reid,” Ground Zero on the evening of September 11 looks like the Garden of Eden.
What a snake.
3 years ago
Is there going to be “genuine rebellion” against unending black killings of black people? Or unending Muslim killings of non-Muslims, since the slaves of Allah have seen fit to chime in? If so, when?
This is b.s. top to bottom. Trump was on his way to winning in November and the Left had run out of Fake News and had to do something so we got COVID-SOCIAL-DISTANCE-STAY-SAFE lockdown and economic ruin, and with that threatening to wind down now we have #He’sblacksoit”matters” rioting, burning, and looting so Antifa can be called up and the looming threat of violence can be permanently added to the equation.
TRUMP 2020. Beat The Bastards Anyway.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Minnesota Democrats wanted this well now that got it.
3 years ago
It is now an article of faith on MSNBC that the looting, burning, destruction and chaos in Minneapolis and dozens of other American cities is the work of “far-right,” “white supremacist” and Trump-directed groups.
What a malicious lie, a BIG LIE, like their evil progenitor Goebbels prescribed.
No one — NO ONE — on MSNBC can question or contradict the Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist/Treason Democrat Party Line. No one on MSNBC can question the Bloodthirsty Tribal Negress Queen “Joy Reid” on her giddy depravity.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
White Lives DON’T Matter: Group of BLACK Minneapolis Rioters Kidnap White Woman, Gang Rape and Kill Her
Posted by EU Times on May 31st, 2020
3 years ago
Reply to
Pantalones
I dunno. A better question….
Were they Somali muslims that Obama smuggled in for the meat packers?
3 years ago
They are still not calling it right. Those are not anarchist, they’re communist. Anarchism is anti-government in all forms, an extreme far-right ideology.
