by Jim Quinn Arresting gym owners, salon owners, and barbers is easy. How about arresting real criminals? Maybe the heroes are too busy planning their next hero parade for the other hero hospital tik tok dancers. At least they’ll be able to get thousands of new vehicles, since they seem to park in riot zones … Read more
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Looting and arson have followed what began as peaceful protests in response to the apparent killing of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, a now-former member of the Minneapolis Police Department. But whatever was the spark that set off the current round of rioting in the Twin Cities area, … Read more
I was watching CNN because they had more live coverage of the rioters, but it forced me to listen to Don Lemon all night. I love it when he tries to sound smart. He (and protestors) kept making favorable comparisons between the looters and the Boston Tea Party. I also heard some protestors and guests … Read more
● Jail records show most arrested in Minneapolis riots have Minnesota addresses. —KMSP, the Minneapolis Fox TV affiliate, today. ● “[Adam Leggat, a former British Army counterterrorism officer who now works as a security consultant specializing in crowd management for the Densus Group] said intelligence reports from his colleagues indicate most of the hard-core protesters in … Read more
by mark000 I’m seeing very little discussion in the MSM mentioning this. They are treating the current situation as just another “protests/riots because of police brutality”. IMO it’s different this time…. Great depression-like jobless rate seen for US: Friday’s jobs report likely to show the unemployment rate soared to nearly 20% Washington: The devastation … Read more
Curfew in effect as protests continue in Nashville. “The mayor has implemented a curfew for Nashville residents. Buildings were damaged, a fire at the courthouse and officers were attacked as protests continue in downtown Nashville on Saturday evening. Mayor John Cooper signed an executive order, which declared a state of civil emergency, and setup a curfew … Read more
END THE LOCKDOWN. STOP THE RIOTS: We’ll know in about 10 to 14 days if the past 90 days have been worth it. Mass crowds gathered in DC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Denver and the virus hot spot of New York, all ignoring the past three months of warnings from CDC experts, the White House, … Read more
by swordandstorm Simply rioting and looting aren’t going to bring about the reform this country desperately needs. What kind of demands would REALLY bring about the changes we want to see? Not empty gestures or hollow words of promises to do better, not bandaid laws treating the symptoms instead of the true rotten disease that … Read more
● Shot: “Assertions about outside agitators come partly from data about who has been arrested, as well as information from fliers and online postings, according to state public safety commissioner John Harrington, who said authorities had ‘seen things like white supremacists organizers’ who had posted online about going to Minnesota. Officials did not provide further … Read more