How many of these rage cases have already forgotten the name of the victim whose cause they claim to champion?
The wrongful death of George Floyd has sparked a powderkeg of outrage that is either the cause, or the cover for, a rash of rioting and destruction sweeping across the streets of Minneapolis.
The police chief has sized up the situation and police have abandoned the field.
https://twitter.com/GKeile/status/1266207266824491008
Without any upper limit to the crowd’s potential for violence, it has spilled over into a wave of destruction… burning the precinct where the four cops in question had worked until they were fired.
What happens if this rioting destroys the very evidence that would be required for a criminal conviction?
Reports from Minneapolis tonight that protestors have taken over police precinct 3. It is burning. LIVE feed from @WCCO #GeorgeFloydprotest pic.twitter.com/LJVtVDteC8
— Heidi Hatch KUTV (@tvheidihatch) May 29, 2020
Here’s what it looks like from the air.
Reports from Minneapolis tonight that protestors have taken over police precinct 3. It is burning. LIVE feed from @WCCO #GeorgeFloydprotest pic.twitter.com/LJVtVDteC8
— Heidi Hatch KUTV (@tvheidihatch) May 29, 2020
This is awkward…
The Minneapolis Fire Chief just said he was not aware that people had even gotten into the police station that is now completely engulfed in flames. He said he was at another location tending to another fire.
What a disaster this all is. pic.twitter.com/OHp9ieBBBT
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 29, 2020
And what was the police chief doing while a police station was being stormed as if it were the freaking Bastille?
The Fire Chief just said rioters set fire to a first floor business while there were two floors of apartments above it. If they hadn't rushed into scene and made an aggressive move to get to those apartments, those people in there would have died.
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 29, 2020
While important blue-check people on social media assure us that these protests are the natural bubbling up of outrage fuelled by locals who have been pushed too far by their own police, that isn’t the story we are getting from people on the ground:
VIDEO – Minneapolis Police Chief Says Many People Involved in Rioting, Looting Not from City https://t.co/efSgGfZDnp
— Grabien (@GrabienMedia) May 28, 2020
Agitators have descended upon the city under the cover of the tragic and heinous death of George Floyd — that people on both sides of the spectrum agree was an absolute outrage — exploiting this event to whip up black-versus-white racial tensions and anti-authoritarian animosity.
Is THIS…
"Shoot the white folks." pic.twitter.com/i2YO8f2ur2
— PoleyThePolarBear (@PoleyBear1350) May 28, 2020
or this…
Video captured earlier of the elderly wheelchair-bound woman who was attacked at the Minneapolis Target during the BLM riot. In a later interview, she said she was trying to do her part in stopping the looting. She was beat on the head & sprayed in the face w/a fire extinguisher. pic.twitter.com/EpcAAF0HLY
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 28, 2020
… any way to honor the memory of Floyd and his family who have called for NOBODY to get hurt?
Running riot and burning down police stations won’t speed the investigation — what happens if it turns out they have been destroying evidence critical to proving that someone is criminally culpable for the death of George Floyd?
