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2020-06-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Now the Narrative of Minnesota Riots Being the Result of Out-Of-State Agitators is Unravelling
[RedState] For some time now we have been getting fed the regular message that these violent riots we are witnessing in Minneapolis, and abroad, are not what they appear. The leaders and experts, eager to transfer blame, have been making the statements that the bad agents who are provoking violence are from outside their area. The attempt to avoid responsibility for the unraveling protests and how leadership allowed destruction, even the overthrow of a police precinct, is now facing an uncomfortable reality.

It is appearing that most of the perpetrators are actually locals.

As the looting and violence that had erupted this week on the streets of Minneapolis spread out to dozens of cities across the country the local politicians struggled to both make sense of things and sound competent. There is an effort to push the narrative of oppression while at the same time excusing responsibility from the very leadership trying to show support. They want to claim institutional racism while refusing to look into their very institutions provoking the strife.

The aftermath in Minnesota has the local politicians desperate to explain away how they lost control of their communities by claiming they were overrun by outside professional anarchy groups. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made this claim:

We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gave a press conference yesterday where he explained his delayed call for National Guard support was that he recently suspected that the riots were being provoked by white supremacists and drug cartels from out of state. Partner Mayor Melvin Carter, from the city of Saint Paul declared that ’’Every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state.’’ State Attorney General Keith Ellison has also echoed this storyline.
These are your brownshirts. You can't hide it anymore. These are what the left has been pushing for since at least 1996.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-06-01 11:10|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 FBI looking for tough guy living at his mommy's house.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-01 12:02||   2020-06-01 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Look at your own spawn, guv'nah...
Posted by Lex 2020-06-01 12:25||   2020-06-01 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 "When I was in Ferguson for [the Justice Department] or with the Obama administration after the [Michael] Brown shooting, we saw that there were terrorist groups, organizations in Pakistan and elsewhere who were setting up false Twitter accounts and setting, having... two sides with conversation, basically alienate each other going forward," Linskey told host Bill Hemmer.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-01 12:26||   2020-06-01 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Had an opportunity to watch the riots in one major city over the weekend. I am by no means a trained observer, but I did notice a few things.

There were clearly 2 shifts. The first was mixed race, gender. Many couples. Some brought children. They had signs and water. Demonstrated during the day, then started leaving around 4PM. The second shift started showing up after that. Nearly 100% young male. Masks, helmets, some weapons. Noticed obvious signs of organization. Guys on motorcycles were moving around speaking with individuals stationed at different locations. Vans moving in and out. Same vehicles showing up repeatedly. Once the police started moving the crowd back with tear gas, the rioters went to individuals with bottles of a white powder. This was applied to the face and seemed to neutralize the tear gas. These guys were strategically positioned, and the rioters knew about them.
Posted by Iblis 2020-06-01 14:10||   2020-06-01 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ that matches my observations - from riots four years ago.

These characters have accumulated a great deal of experience in the last four years. They assemble quickly and know how to create havoc. This is not spontaneous.
Posted by Lex 2020-06-01 14:44||   2020-06-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep - they had 'protests' in Manchester, NH three+ years ago; first thing I said about it was 'they're all bussed up from Boston, and $20 sez the buses are all parked on Canal Street' (the sight of which was effectively blocked by five-story mill buildings on both sides of the road). Latter part was confirmed the next day, so the goons in Boston basically used Manchester as a tune-up / preseason game.
Posted by Raj 2020-06-01 17:43||   2020-06-01 17:43|| Front Page Top

#7 They've been tuning up for four years.
This is the Olympic Games for them.
Posted by Lex 2020-06-01 18:14||   2020-06-01 18:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Past experience shows both sides will bring folks in from all over. Only difference is, patriots pay expenses out of pocket. Nobody has ever slipped me some "walkin' around money". Where's my frikkin' sugar!
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-06-01 18:38||   2020-06-01 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 they do that bullshit. real ppl do the real shit when it comes down to it.
Posted by Chris 2020-06-01 23:11||   2020-06-01 23:11|| Front Page Top

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