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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mayor of Minneapolis imposes curfew between hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Mayor of the US city of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, signed on Friday an emergency regulation imposing a curfew between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, as violent protests sweep the city after the police killing of George Floyd.

George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck while the Floyd pleaded that he can’t breathe, sparked three days of violent protests in the city.

The incident was caught on video, after a bystander filmed it. The cellphone footage showed Floyed repeatedly moaning and gasping while he pleaded to Chauvin, “Please, I can’t breathe.” After several minutes, Floyd gradually grows quiet and ceases to move.

The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

“Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, and an autopsy found the combined impact of his being restrained by the police, underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death,” Reuters reported citing the charging document.

If Chauvin is convicted of the murder charge, he will face up to 25 years in prison.

Chauvin, along with three other officers, were fired from the police department over Floyd's death.

TRUMP CALLS FLOYD’S FAMILY
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had spoken with Floyd’s family, and described Floyd’s killing as a “terrible event.”

“It’s a terrible thing. We all saw what we saw… It should never be allowed to happen. We’re determined that justice be served,” Trump said during a press conference in the White House.

Trump had tweeted earlier in the day, about the protests in Minneapolis, saying: “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Twitter hid the President’s tweet saying it “violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.”

Hours after his “shooting starts” tweet, he posted another saying: “Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means.”

He added: “It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It’s very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!”




Courtesy of Lex:
TWTR Logic: muzzle the O-Man and broadcast "Unicorn Riot's" calls for murder/arson/destruction riot-pr0n account (150k followers)

[Spectator] Twitter spreads riot porn — but censors a President vowing to restore law and order. Progressive censorship has a bias towards anarchy

Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa


#2  A curfew is going to stop a Riot? Since when?
Posted by: magpie || 05/30/2020 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ..when it is coupled with 'shot on sight'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  What is the Mayor prepared to do if people violate the curfew?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/30/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ "Jacques Merde"
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Read the autopsy findings. Stress from the arrest exacerbated preexisting heart condition along with various intoxicants. He did not die from strangulation or asphyxiation. While the officer seems likely to have been guilty of excessive force and assault (battery) he did not commit murder or manslaughter. They are overcharging him as an expedient way to calm public disorder. Charges against the others would be highly suspect
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/30/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||



#9  @ #6 - Black lives may matter, but the facts don't.

Be ready for another round of riots after the trial. After all, the "police officer" was just performing a "discretionary" duty.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  There is no point to imposing a curfew unless the mayor is prepared to enforce it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#11  That mayor's a man of action and tough on crime. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Wait. Couldn't he just enforce the "social distancing" requirements? Won't all the rioters get COVID-19?

[/cynicism/sarcasm]
Posted by: Bobby || 05/30/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Of course rioters won't obey a curfew. But having a curfew gives the police cause to not arrest people, instead of not arresting them for looting, arson, and shooting each other.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/30/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||

#14  All I know is if I go down the street and bash a few store front windows and perhaps take a few things out of the establishment, I'm in a heap of trouble. If I gather a couple of mates to do the same, still in a heap of trouble. But the Minnesota authorities have given these microbe rioters carte blanche. Soon we will get to the point (if not there already) that that horse is already out of the barn, and any actions by the authorities will appear "excessive"....and, of course, racist.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 14:28 Comments || Top||

#15  I was reminded today of a bumper sticker I saw in the Western part of Maryland many years ago. It said” if if we had known how much trouble it was gonna make, we’d have picked the cotton ourselves “. Prophetic!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/30/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#16  Out-of-state protesters? White supremacists? Russians?

Yeah...I don't think so
Jail records show most arrested in Minneapolis riots have Minnesota addresses
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2020 18:18 Comments || Top||

#17  Update From Frank G’s link an hour ago:

A searchable jail roster is available online.

Speaking Saturday, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder, however, said that sometimes people arrested will provide false information. He says background checks are showing some people arrested have records from other areas.

Meanwhile, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is backtracking after saying that 100 percent of the people arrested for causing disorder in his city were from out of state.

Three-quarters of the people arrested in St. Paul had Minnesota addresses, according to data provided to FOX 9 by police.

Of the 18 total arrests, 12 had Minnesota addresses, four were from out of state, and two were unknown.

Saturday evening, Carter acknowledged his earlier statement was inaccurate


One hypothesis superseded by reality. But how many of them were white, and therefore still probably Antifa?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2020 21:59 Comments || Top||

#18  Minneapolis is pretty progressive. It wouldn't be hard to get all the white, Antifa "outside agitators" you need without going very far.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/30/2020 22:37 Comments || Top||

#19  No matter. Just shift the narrative again. It's still whitey's fault, cuz we wuz infiltrated!

Minnesota's "community" leaders are now claiming that the violence was caused by - get this - out-of-state white supremacists!

...They were reverends and rabbis and people of the Islamic faith. They spoke in Somali, Spanish and English. And they pleaded, at times through tears, for their hurting communities to stay home Saturday night to prevent more pain.

Called together by Gov. Tim Walz, a group of Minnesota community leaders spent nearly two televised hours Saturday morning acknowledging the outrage over the death of George Floyd. ..."White people from other communities are coming into my community...as if it wasn't bad enough already,"

[??? 'Bad enough already'? Because of your own people?]

...said Justin Terrell, executive director of the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage. "Go home now. The fascists on the plane right now, turn around."

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, ... was a community organizer for more than two decades, marching in the streets after any fatal police encounter.

"That space on 38th and Chicago is sacred ground, and people should be able to come together on that sacred ground and mourn and grieve and demand change and justice," Flanagan said.

"In this moment, we cannot, because there are detractors.
There are white supremacists. There are anarchists. There are people who are burning down the institutions that are core to our identity and who we are."

Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 22:40 Comments || Top||

#20  Ah, beware the sinister white-black supremacist-anarchist bund!

Klansmen and Antifa unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 22:43 Comments || Top||

#21  @ #19 - I give these imbeciles credit for one thing: saying what they are saying with a straight face. Mean Gene Okerlund had an easier time keeping a straight face in all his years with WWF.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 22:50 Comments || Top||

#22  Hard to keep a straight face with this delightful scene from Burbank/Beverly Hills just now ... It would be straight out of WWF, except the fence they slammed their own idiot into is made of steel
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 22:55 Comments || Top||

#23  ^ Warms your heart. Restores faith in humanity.
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 22:58 Comments || Top||

#24  Cage match! (Timing was perfect as that scum bag just finished throwing something at that man closing the gate.)
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 23:31 Comments || Top||

#25  This however is tragic: Dallas man nearly killed trying to defend his shop just now. Horrific 24 seconds of close in video from someone in a mob of around 20, pelting him with rocks and curb-stomping him until he is lying face down in a pool of his own blood. Fortunately he seems to have survived and is being treated now
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 23:51 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chicago mayor tells Trump 'F-U' after tweet about Minneapolis looting
[FoxNews] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted President Trump and invoked an expletive Friday in response to his tweet after three days of protests in Minneapolis, Minn., when he called the protesters "THUGS" and tweeted that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

“Donald Trump’s comment last night was profoundly dangerous,” Lightfoot said Friday during a news conference to discuss plans to reopen the city. “And we must stand firm in solidarity and say this is totally unacceptable no matter who is the speaker."

“He wants to show failures on the part of Democratic local leaders, to throw red meat to his base," she added, according to WGN9. "His goal is to polarize, to destabilize local government and inflame racist urges. We can absolutely not let him prevail. And I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words. It begins with F and it ends with U.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2020 00:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She has much in common with our local Pueraria Montana (Kudzu), a species of plant in the botanical family Fabaceae. She is also a sub-species
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2020 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope Fox continues to play the video clip from Obama when, oddly enough, he uses the same word, THUGS.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Stop all federal funding to these places.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/30/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  so classy
Posted by: Chris || 05/30/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  It begins with F and it ends with U.

Fugitsu?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/30/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Flu, but that's a bit of a Scrabble play.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/30/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#7  I just can't wait to see the MSM denounce this Chicago mayor for her choice of words and being so "un-mayor-like".
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 12:18 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 Stop all federal funding to these places.

If the standard GOP playbook is followed, she'll get more money, not less.

The creatures that run the GOP desperately want to be loved by the cool kids of the left.

Posted by: charger || 05/30/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  And, like in international relations, you can't buy love. We'll never learn.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 13:30 Comments || Top||

#10  "Fear (the) Zulu"?
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 14:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Lightgroot's while career has been about inflaming racism. When was elected because she was loyal to the Machine, is black, and obviously insane.

She's been ordering the police to shut down parties and church services, and when a confrontation that looks bad on video gets publicity, well, "the police misinterpreted their orders" and other shit.

Even before the Wuhan Flu, she'd redeveloping police from middle class neighborhoods to send them to high crime areas -- where they weren't allowed to do anything. So the crime started moving to the middle class neighborhoods.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/30/2020 16:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Rob - incl Hyde Park?
(asking for a friend, seriously)
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 17:03 Comments || Top||

#13  She will move the needled from “failing big city” to “Failed big city” by the end of her 1st term... then they will re reflect her.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 05/30/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Lightloafers has her own problems. She has record setting numbers of murders in her city and does nothing about these. So FU light Lightloafers, you are a disgrace.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/30/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Groot
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2020 18:20 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Ima thinkin Beetlejuice (insert pic pls - tia)
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||

#17 

Pretty close, but Second City Cop blog calls her Groot
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||

#18  Thankee, Frank!
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 19:55 Comments || Top||

#19  Is that Clementine approved Lex?
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/30/2020 21:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Flynn, Kislyak transcripts released after DNI declassification
[Fox News] Ratcliffe comes through
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Harvest this man's potential immediately. Promote and assign him to positions of greater responsibility and leadership. He obviously enjoys an effortless lead over the pack.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2020 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Everyone on the left lied up and down the line about everything. No surprise there. The question is: Will it change votes? Will it flip present left-wing office holders from blue to red? Will this flip the House, keep the Senate and the Presidency?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/30/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't wait to hear what Emmett Sullivan has to say about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Gotta feeling Sullivan will be a footnote in history and will fade into obscurity.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/30/2020 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  So can someone explain how the left is adamant the transcripts prove he did it rather than exonerate him? How can this not change their minds?
Posted by: Slash Jones1934 || 05/30/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Did they change their minds after Mueller finally testified there was nothing there?

Did they change their minds about Blasey Ford after her friend called BS and Avenatti & company were exposed?

Did they change their minds after seeing the full on batshit-crazy video involving the drum-beating injun harassing Nick Sandmann and the other Covington Catholic schoolboys?
Posted by: Lex || 05/30/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I rest my case.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2020 18:26 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 - You have to have a mind to change it. They have hive behavior
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||



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