Question for the cops here.
squad 1 is 10 feet away, and squad 2 is a 100ft away. Why take him to squad 2?
squad 1 is 10 feet away, and squad 2 is a 100ft away. Why take him to squad 2?
National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (and now ICE)
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I can tell you squad 1 was a back up from the Mpls Park Police, not regular Mpls PD. They're technically separate departments and Mpls PD "owned" the call. Looks like they were bringing him back to Mpls PD/responding officers squad.
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The officer involved has now been arrested.
Derek Chauvin, Former Officer Who Placed Knee on George Floyd’s Neck, in Police Custody
This shit needs to stop, and there needs to be some serious jail time for a lot of these assholes. So, last night in Downtown Phoenix there was a riot.
8 arrested after hundreds march in downtown Phoenix to protest death of George Floyd
The Ohio statehouse has been breached.
LIVE: DeWine addresses damage caused to Ohio statehouse during George Floyd protests
Derek Chauvin, Former Officer Who Placed Knee on George Floyd’s Neck, in Police Custody
This shit needs to stop, and there needs to be some serious jail time for a lot of these assholes. So, last night in Downtown Phoenix there was a riot.
8 arrested after hundreds march in downtown Phoenix to protest death of George Floyd
The Ohio statehouse has been breached.
LIVE: DeWine addresses damage caused to Ohio statehouse during George Floyd protests
I'd like to think it will, but I'm not to sure.
These riots are fueled by a good mix of anger at the system, unemployment, pent up energy, and a dash of opportunism.
Hopefully what happened in Minneapolis doesn't spread to other cities and their police precincts.
That's what is most concerning to me, everyone is pent up and pissed off right now at a myriad of reasons and all it takes is for some disenfranchised person to feel the need to retaliate towards 'The Man' or ato fully commit and try to kick the boogaloo off.
The frightening thing really in the event a boogaloo kicked off from this is how muddled the lines are; there's no easy North and South divide this time.
Anything spilling out in the US will be analogous to Syria; The two sides are those who support the current government and those who are "fighting for the people".
But if the groups fighting for the people all have different ideas of what that should look like, you have a situation primed to be full of smaller scale conflicts and almost impossible to control.
Like, ANTIFA, socialist groups, some BOOG-boys/3%ers, and even some right-wing sovergin citizen lite groups would all fall into the "oppose the government" side; ain't no way in hell they don't fight each other too.
It's also fueled by people who just want to break and steal shit. Don't think everyone has the same moral compass you have.
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Explosives being placed in precincts is terrorism, not anger at the system.
Minneapolis police 3rd Precinct building on fire; city asks those in area to move away due to potential gas leak
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"Balkanization" is a good term for it.
@BloodStripe and @ThunderHorse
I meant that statement to try and capture the multitudes of reasons this is a powder keg.
Some people may share all of those sentiments, and others just want to pull a Fred Durst and Break Stuff
I meant that statement to try and capture the multitudes of reasons this is a powder keg.
Some people may share all of those sentiments, and others just want to pull a Fred Durst and Break Stuff
So where's the nookie? 
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There's plenty of assholes in this world that don't even need a reason to do shit, they just do it.
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That was from last night and, I'll tell you, it was immediately a suspect report to me.
First, the report was put out by the city via Twitter. Odd.
Then, they cited it as an unconfirmed report. Also odd. So, if no one is there, who told them this?
Finally, they concluded their Tweet by requesting everyone to leave the area for their safety, in case it exploded. Ah! There we have it: the real motive....just an attempt to get people to dispurse.
Pretty stupid and transparent if you ask me.
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Just drove through some of the areas. Overall, pretty quiet. Mostly normal looking except for graffiti and the business owners continuing to board up their buildings; clearly expecting more problems. Many posting signs declaring they're a "black owned business" or a "small business".
Saw a couple police cars, but that's it; no NG. No visible presence in the areas I went through. Some streets or areas of streets are blocked off, for example, one of the precincts I drove by had barriers blocking it off with officers posted outside.
There was a large gathering of protesters outside the Hennepin County Government Center. Pretty uneventful, as you'd expect for now; the actual hoodlums are probably still in bed after a full night of vandalism and stealing.
Saw a couple police cars, but that's it; no NG. No visible presence in the areas I went through. Some streets or areas of streets are blocked off, for example, one of the precincts I drove by had barriers blocking it off with officers posted outside.
There was a large gathering of protesters outside the Hennepin County Government Center. Pretty uneventful, as you'd expect for now; the actual hoodlums are probably still in bed after a full night of vandalism and stealing.
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You'd think so but, sadly, history may say otherwise.
I'd have expected Minneapolis and others to have learned from others, such as L.A. and develop plans to ensure that doesn't happen. Clearly, they didn't. They didn't even learn from the RNC several years ago.
Out, I will not support shooting of Americans.
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Very interesting comments from the ME in the criminal complaint against Officer Chauvin.
See third paragraph below.
This won't be popular:
If this is true, it probably explains why there was a 2 hour delay to an expected press conference by the County Attorney yesterday afternoon.
It certainly complicates the issue. It also also further emphasizes why it's so foolish for local officials to be opining on the matter. I have to believe they'll have a second examiner review as well.
See third paragraph below.
This won't be popular:
Hennepin County Medical Examiner" said:
If this is true, it probably explains why there was a 2 hour delay to an expected press conference by the County Attorney yesterday afternoon.
It certainly complicates the issue. It also also further emphasizes why it's so foolish for local officials to be opining on the matter. I have to believe they'll have a second examiner review as well.
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Brother, if there's shooting, it won't be initiated by the police or the guardsmen. Our fellow Americans are already shooting each other. Seven people were shot in Kentucky, and none of those shots came from police. 7 shot during downtown protests calling for justice in Breonna Taylor case
This is how stupid things are getting. A man who hung an effigy of Kentucky's governor from a tree has been fired
So, very similar to the Eric Garner case in New York.
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