Residents put out a car fire near Lake Street. One Lark staffer, a former preschool teacher, likes to compliment the masked children she meets. “If you have a friend or a family member that is out there right now, call them and tell them to come home,” he pleaded as rioting raged nearby. Jackson says Floyd moved to Minneapolis for work, driving trucks. One Lark staffer, a former preschool teacher, likes to compliment the masked children she meets. Heaping violent contempt on an 8 p.m. curfew declaration and on widespread pleas for forbearance and peace, rioters rampaged across Minneapolis for a fourth night Friday and into early Saturday, creating unprecedented havoc as they set towering fires, looted and vandalized businesses and shot at police officers, all in response to the death of an unarmed black man under a white police officer’s knee on Monday.By early Saturday, Gov. Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the north suburban home of Police Federation president Bob Kroll and his wife, WCCO's Liz Collins, amid protesters continued efforts to get them fired. Smoke billowed from a fire at the Wells Fargo near the Fifth Precinct station in Minneapolis on Friday night.
Health officials are wary of the chance case growth could accelerate this fall. Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the north suburban home of Police Federation president Bob Kroll and his wife, WCCO's Liz Collins, amid protesters continued efforts to get them fired. Near midnight, police officers and National Guard troops were moving into the area.Early Saturday, fires were also burning at businesses on W. Broadway. The election will also be taking place amid new reports that foreign actors such as Russia, China and Iran again seek to interfere and at a time of heightened social unrest that the Prockos compared to 1968.“We’ve been married 53 years and never been through anything like this,” Procko said.Staff writers Rochelle Olson, John Reinan, Reid Forgrave and Matt McKinney contributed to this report. It was unclear what authority reported the shots fired. It is not right.”John Harrington, commissioner of the state Department of Public Safety, also spoke at the wee-hours news conference, saying that efforts would continue overnight to push rioters back from downtown and business areas, but “we will need far more officers and far more National Guard officers than we have.”The violence occurred after many businesses and public structures had been boarded up and fortified in preparation for yet another night of violent demonstrations against police brutality.After midnight, as helicopters drummed above Minneapolis and smoke blanketed the shellshocked city, major fires were reported near the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fifth Precinct headquarters at Nicollet Avenue and 31st Street, including at the U.S. Post Office on Nicollet, a Wells Fargo Bank, a Stop-and-Go gas station and a Shell station on Park Avenue and Lake Street. Amid fears that accelerants at the gas stations could explode, onlookers scattered and ducked.
Altogether, about 645,000 absentee ballots had been requested by Election Day.Minnesota managed to stave off the long lines and dysfunction experienced in other post-COVID elections this year in states such as Wisconsin and Georgia. Let’s go. Yet in Minneapolis, where U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., soundly defeated primary challenger Antone Melton-Meaux, Minneapolis’ Brian Coyle Community Center, in … Onlookers watched calmly as police officers also stood by. According to MnDOT traffic cameras, protesters later set a bonfire in the southbound lanes just south of Washington Avenue.At the Fifth Precinct in south Minneapolis, 350 officers moved into the area just before midnight, pushing back demonstrators. He said repeatedly that the sheer scope of the crowds and violence have been shocking, and that there was no way for authorities to anticipate or prepare for such an onslaught.Comparing this week’s events to the actions he has undertaken in relation to the COVID-19 epidemic, Walz said, “A compact that we go by in civilized society is that you have to have social buy-in,” which rioters do not acknowledge, he said. Several officers stood on top of the building watching the mostly peaceful crowd, which was chanting and holding signs. “And you might not know the next day who the president is. A protester got tagged with a marker round as they skirmished with the National Guard near the 3rd Precinct before heading down Lake St. towards the 5th Precinct. “He is the commander-in-chief. They said they weren’t worried about getting the coronavirus from voting in person, even though she is a breast cancer survivor and he had quadruple bypass surgery this year. The city of Minneapolis as a whole has a higher crime rate than the average large US city ranking high on the 24/7 Wall St. review of violent crime rates in major U.S. cities as taken from the FBI’s 2015 Uniform Crime Report. Let’s get out of here.”“Let’s get the [expletive] out of here. Walz, issued curfews to try and curtail the looting and riots that have gone on all week Friday, May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis He controls the National Guard. He was among many GOP political leaders, including President Donald Trump, who have weighed in to decry the situation and the leadership of Walz and Frey.Gazelka told a Star Tribune reporter that he called the White House about the Minnesota riots, although he was not able to speak directly with Trump. … If you don’t have a car, get in one.
We are asking for your help in keeping the peace tonight." “‘Our governor is not able to keep the peace.
“You need to go home.”Implying that organized outsiders, perhaps including anarchists, white supremacists and drug cartel agents from outside Minnesota, were contributing to the chaos, Walz said, “The sheer number of rioters has made it impossible to make coherent arrests.