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2020-05-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Minneapolis Burning
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Posted by Clem 2020-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa 

#1 Banfield would likely judge Mayor Frey harshly, not least for withdrawing police from the city's Third Precinct and permitting rioting to go on in order to avoid confrontation.

I wonder if the mayor's choices were constrained by the tools at his disposal. The Minneapolis police force doesn't seem to be professional or competent. Justine Diamond's death at the hands of a poorly vetted and trained Somali cop comes to mind. I seem to have a vague recollection of some sort of affirmative action kerfuffle, but I could be wrong.

Maybe the MPD lacked the manpower to deal with the rioters. Maybe the mayor feared the MPD lacked the competence to suppress a riot without turning it into a bloodbath for one or both sides. Or maybe he just punked out.
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-30 00:30||   2020-05-30 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Doh! Forgot to mention another option: the National Guard. If the cops can't handle the situation, calling in the Guard seems obvious. But in this case, since Trump already suggested it, that course of action is off the table.

The City of Minneapolis has been run by the Democratic Farmer Labor Party since 1978.
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-30 00:46||   2020-05-30 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 White House briefly locked down as unrest spreads to Atlanta, DC, NYC after George Floyd death


'unrest'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 00:46||   2020-05-30 00:46|| Front Page Top

#4 LIVE UPDATES: Riots break out across America after George Floyd death
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 00:47||   2020-05-30 00:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump on Minneapolis unrest: 'Looters should not be allowed to drown out voices of so many peaceful protesters'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 00:52||   2020-05-30 00:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Looting erupts in Minneapolis for fourth night despite National Guard as George Floyd protesters try to get into CNN in Atlanta, attack a police station in NYC and the White House is locked-down
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 00:55||   2020-05-30 00:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Predator drone used for tracking and killing terrorists in Middle East is flown over Minneapolis to record protests despite ban on it flying that far
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 00:56||   2020-05-30 00:56|| Front Page Top

#8 The police may have been directed by the mayor's office to not confront the hooligans and abandon the police station.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-30 01:48||   2020-05-30 01:48|| Front Page Top

#9  Justine Diamond's death at the hands of a poorly vetted and trained Somali cop comes to mind.

Somali-American policeman Mohamed Noor was thoroughly vetted at every step, and then the horrible results at each step were completely ignored. The political masters were determined to have their very own Somali policeman to show off as soon as it could be arranged.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-30 01:56||   2020-05-30 01:56|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder how many are there just for any possible looting opportunities. And to create them.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-30 04:48||   2020-05-30 04:48|| Front Page Top

#11 ^All
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-30 04:51||   2020-05-30 04:51|| Front Page Top

#12 'I'm getting shot!' Dramatic moment local TV reporter is hit with pepper balls fired by Louisville police while live on air during riots protesting death of George Floyd
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 06:20||   2020-05-30 06:20|| Front Page Top

#13 Many a time during Intifada I, I've had to suppress an urge to shoot journalists. Not with paper balls either.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-30 06:46||   2020-05-30 06:46|| Front Page Top

#14 That mayor reminds me a bit of Justin Trudeau.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-30 06:47||   2020-05-30 06:47|| Front Page Top

#15 I sort of missed the white people rioting when the Minneapolis Somali cop shot and killed the white gal.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-30 07:40||   2020-05-30 07:40|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ The lack of "rioting" in Chicago following the Memorial Day carnage (12 KIA, 30 or so WIA). Yet another missed event. I must have been mowing the lawn.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-30 07:42||   2020-05-30 07:42|| Front Page Top

#17 It's as if we have learned nothing over two generations


The Gramscians have done their work well. This is the result of Obama style organizing.
Posted by AlanC 2020-05-30 08:13||   2020-05-30 08:13|| Front Page Top

#18 Haven't heard anything from Amy Klobuchar. But, then again, just as well. In due time....
Posted by Clem 2020-05-30 08:44||   2020-05-30 08:44|| Front Page Top

#19 Walz said neither the City or the State had the numbers to stop the riots, in effect asking the Feds to step in so he can claim clean hands and blame Trump when the first looters get toasted.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-30 09:41||   2020-05-30 09:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Steve, Re 1 & 2:

1. Frey is a gutless POS. It's not beyond the realm of possibility, that he let this happen, to help the Dems chances in Nov. Orange Man Bad - caused riots due to Nasty Tweets, or some such.

2. Head of the MN Nat'l Guard - says never got a mission statement from the Gov - couldn't make up his own and send extra troops in.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-30 09:49||   2020-05-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#21 to hell with the CNN center, What I saw on the news was police cars being destroyed then burnt
Posted by Chris 2020-05-30 10:21||   2020-05-30 10:21|| Front Page Top

#22 The Left wants to return to 1968.
Posted by Klem Kadiddlehopper 2020-05-30 10:39||   2020-05-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ because 1968 worked out so well for them.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-30 11:00||   2020-05-30 11:00|| Front Page Top

#24 Re 1968 analogy I don't see how these riots could benefit a hapless doddering white goof candidate like Biden.

The only scenario in which the Dems gain would be a repeat of 1992, when the LA riots fed into an existing "narrative" about how GHW Bush was inattentive to suffering on the home front caused by the recession of 1991.

Watch the Dems shift their narrative to memes like Trump's "inattention," "negligence," "tweet-fiddling while Rome burns" etc
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 11:10||   2020-05-30 11:10|| Front Page Top

#25 Fox News crew harassed, chased by angry mob while reporting on protests outside White House
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 11:27||   2020-05-30 11:27|| Front Page Top

#26 Minneapolis Mayor DEFENDS abandoning 3rd precinct in order to prevent 'hand-to-hand' combat between protesters and 'outnumbered' officers - as cops claim officials were 'content to let the city be overrun'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-30 12:05||   2020-05-30 12:05|| Front Page Top

#27 Our Intelligence community and FBI should be deeply involved right now in Determining internal and external sourcesfor the BLM and Antifa organizers behind this. the Governor of MN has it right this is terrorism and has foreign aspects to the coordinations ongoing. I am certain there are Chinese and/or Russian forces involved.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-05-30 12:30||   2020-05-30 12:30|| Front Page Top

#28 Minneapolis Officials Blame "White Supremacist... Terror Cells" For Rioting, Looting

Can't make it up....
Posted by Clem 2020-05-30 12:42||   2020-05-30 12:42|| Front Page Top

#29 #23 ^ because 1968 worked out so well for them.

It did, though.

They lost the next two Prez elections, but the generation of '68 marched through the institutions and now have (or have bequeathed to their heirs) the commanding heights of the culture, politics, law and even key sectors of the economy.

At some point a critical mass of the populace will either figure out that elections only have consequences when the left wants them to -- or the left will win everything.

Posted by charger 2020-05-30 13:21||   2020-05-30 13:21|| Front Page Top

#30 ^ there's an older conservative professor of German at UC Santa Cruz who has an interesting theory about the 1968 generation's long march through the institutions. He says it was a freak (pun intended) event that happened only because the anti-war / hippy / New Left movement corresponded with the unprecedented and enormous increase in college enrollment during the 1960s. His claim is that, absent such a huge increase in numbers overall, the relatively small far-left minority would never have attained anywhere near so much influence over our culture and society as they did.

If he's correct, and if as seems likely we are about to see a historic decline in the US college population over this decade, then it could well be the case that we've passed the high water mark of leftist influence and we will see our culture and political center of gravity move back toward something more normal.

Hope his thesis is right.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 15:01||   2020-05-30 15:01|| Front Page Top

#31 Lock people up in their homes and take away their jobs and it doesn't take much to light the tinderbox.

Also with the re-openings the far left realized they'd lose the election bad and brought out the Anitfa thugs to make sure the fire burned bright.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-30 15:08||   2020-05-30 15:08|| Front Page Top

#32 Haven't heard anything from Amy Klobuchar. But, then again, just as well. In due time....

Klobuchar: ‘It Is a Lie’ I Declined to Prosecute Police Officer Involved in Floyd Death
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-30 15:14||   2020-05-30 15:14|| Front Page Top

#33 ^ comb through her records
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 15:35||   2020-05-30 15:35|| Front Page Top

#34 Also with the re-openings the far left realized they'd lose the election bad and brought out the Anitfa thugs to make sure the fire burned bright.

No way the current shenanigans are sustained all the way to November.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-30 15:51||   2020-05-30 15:51|| Front Page Top

#35 Barr's on the case
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 16:02||   2020-05-30 16:02|| Front Page Top

#36 Barr the Barbarian!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-30 16:08||   2020-05-30 16:08|| Front Page Top

#37 Been warning on The 'burg for more n a year this was coming our way in 2020. Well here we are n the bodies and ruined lives are stacking up. It's way past time that Antifa is crushed and their sponsors sent to prison. No more fokkin around
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-05-30 16:21||   2020-05-30 16:21|| Front Page Top

#38 The Anti-Riot Act (18 US Code Section 2101) makes it a federal crime to travel across interstate lines for the purpose of urging or instigating violence in furtherance of a riot.

The left is trying to throw shade at Barr for invoking this, but they're not likely to succeed: it's been upheld recently by a liberal Clinton-appointed judge in Virginia -- because it was used, ironically, by prosecutors against two white rioters in the Charlottesville riots.

That judge trashed their arguments to dismiss with a very strong defense of the Anti-Riot Act here -- this opinion seems like a fine precedent for future reference.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 16:36||   2020-05-30 16:36|| Front Page Top

#39 Interesting point, Lex, thanks.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-30 16:38||   2020-05-30 16:38|| Front Page Top

#40 Goose, gander.
Time to smash Antifa. Maybe BLM too.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 16:40||   2020-05-30 16:40|| Front Page Top

#41 M. Murcek, agreed but an opportunity is an opportunity and the chance that the Feds say or do something they can use are increasingly possible in a time of crisis.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-30 18:12||   2020-05-30 18:12|| Front Page Top

#42 Absolutley, Lex. BLM and Antifa are 2 regiments within the same division. Both need to go
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-05-30 18:23||   2020-05-30 18:23|| Front Page Top

#43 Well well well: Oakland killing of federal officer ‘domestic terrorism,’ Homeland Security says
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 18:49||   2020-05-30 18:49|| Front Page Top

#44 ^ Antifa?
Posted by Lex 2020-05-30 18:56||   2020-05-30 18:56|| Front Page Top

#45 "We're not sure it's connected to the protests" is the Party Line, just like "We'll probably never know if it was connected to Islamic Terrorism™" when someone yells Allah Akhbar while killing civilians
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-30 19:29||   2020-05-30 19:29|| Front Page Top

#46 Partial list of the damage
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-30 20:13||   2020-05-30 20:13|| Front Page Top

#47 Local rag looked up the bookings - most are from Minnesota not carpet baggers; however, the "pro's" are much less likely to let themselves be arrested, so still an open question.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-30 20:16||   2020-05-30 20:16|| Front Page Top

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