So I got there yesterday around 5:30 they was already shooting off tear gas and flash bangs etc. maybe 15 minutes after I arrived, this dude in a black pickup truck pulls up. All over his truck he has Trump 2020 stuff, a trump and confederate flag etc. ppl start grabbing bricks and throwing em at his whip. He can’t drive fast bc it’s a crowd of ppl around him. He’s going slow enough that they pull him out the whip and boom a huge crowd surrounds him and are audibly kicking his ass. Somehow he gets back into his car and drives past me, still going slowly, you can see the blood all over his face and boom more ppl run up and throw rocks into his whip, at damn near point blank range. Worst part about it is the dude wasn’t even white he was some type of Latino.

fast forward a couple hours, we just protesting, getting gassed and flash banged. ppl go behind the liquor store and grab big ass trash cans for a way of defense (hide behind). Eventually ppl start grabbing those cardboard signs that you see in the liq store, and after that the looting began. Somehow the back door of the liquor store got opened and ppl started running in taking s***. Boxes and boxes of liquor whatever they could grab.

After the hit the liquor store, everything was down hill. They blew up the auto zone and I came to find out at least 2 other buildings caught on fire, they looted Wendy’s, Arby’s, Aldis, the dollar store, target, the planet fitness, the cub foods, and even took it blocks up lake street where everything was going down. By the time I left which was maybe 11:45 there were looters everywhere

I’m upset this morning though because now it’s not about the fact that George Floyd was killed anymore. It’s not about the fact that this is the second black man that has died in this exact same county by the hands of the police in less than 6 years. It’s not about how MPLS and St. Paul have some of the highest police brutality rates in the entire country, no it’s about the small businesses that were hurt. The business with insurance that can be rebuilt.

I guess people were fine with seeing us get flash banged and tear gassed, people might’ve even been fine with the deaths and consistent police brutality, but once people started to react, then it was too much. The only thing I’m upset about concerning the looting is that they decided to do it in their own neighborhoods.

I’m sick of seeing my people die bruh. As of today black men are 1 in 1,000 likelihood to be killed at the hands of the police, man. I’m a young black man this is my every day reality. I’m gonna have kids one day and I would hate for it to be theirs too

I agree that change needs to happen.

The only thing I say is that by rioting all you’re really doing is destroying and affecting small business owners that ironically, could be black which is not productive

Destroying, rioting I think has played a part in things changing, but I personally don’t know how productive it’ll be. More people are dying, and real people are being affected as well.

Another thing that I ask to take into consideration is to look at the numbers. The media tends to shift the focus on isolated incidents to cause hysteria and incite race wars.

This guy who killed George Floyd is a disgusting piece of s*** worthless f*** that needs to rot in prison, but I don’t want to put the entire blame on law enforcement. Because just like there’s examples of awful cops, I could also find overwhelming examples of cops who do their job properly without being power hungry racists.

What pisses me the f*** off, is that it should NOT take riots and chaos to have f***ing scums like this convicted. It should be handled immediately. Like they would if it was another person who committed murder.

Hope that makes sense

If only the officer got off that mans neck

No life was ruined last night more than George Floyd's.

Did an Amazon warehouse get looted?

Amazon Warehouses are where it's at

People are acting out of emotion and anger bro. Mfers just want the world to feel our pain

💕

Investigation and warrants take more time than you'd think.

Twitter mob threatening mass violence now ? Gotta see it happen to believe it

What the f*** is this

You ain’t threatening nobody until you not scared of guns. First thing the black community needs to do more than anything is arm themselves like the far right ones do and march on the state capital. Watch how fast a response comes then

crazy

yea but if kids live there then I get that
even tho if i was that cop i would tell my wife and kids to go stay with relatives for the time being.

I mean I understand it, but it wouldn't be needed if they were arrested. I promise they wouldn't need 100 cops outside protecting the house if the killer was arrested

tru.
keeping that guy in a secure building (jail) might be safer for everyone.
then they wouldn't need to waste time standing in front of his house.

even then you would still need some security presence to prevent having the house looted/set on fire.
not as much tho.

you feel me, it's protecting everyone and saving resources

keep him arrested and you'll only need 4-5 people at the house instead of them rolling 100 deep

people wouldn't have a reason to protest against the family house if the dude was behind bars

Holy s*** this dude really went into the belly of the beast. That sounds pretty traumatic tho.

Whole thing is terrible

the looting s*** is ridiculous and only furthers the divide and mistrust and reaffirms the ugly beliefs

😔

Even Fox & Friends is condemning this