Tag: Minneapolis riots

Their Minneapolis Restaurant Burned, but They Back the Protest

New York Times logoThough a Bangladeshi family lost their business in the uproar over the death of George Floyd, they support demonstrators and helped medics treat them.

On Friday morning, as dawn broke through the smoke hanging over Minneapolis, the Gandhi Mahal Restaurant was severely damaged by fire. Hafsa Islam, whose father owns the Bangladeshi-Indian restaurant with members of his family, woke at 6 a.m. to hear the news.

“At first, I was angry,” said Ms. Islam, 18. “This is my family’s main source of income.”

But then she overheard her father, Ruhel Islam, speaking to a friend on the phone. “Let my building burn,” he said. “Justice needs to be served.” Continue reading.

Sources: Law Enforcement Concerned Anarchists Could Expand To Other Areas

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Multiple law enforcement sources tell WCCO they are concerned that anarchists could try to expand their damage zone to other parts of the Twin Cities that have not yet been touched.

Some sources tell us they are monitoring anarchistic online traffic and chat rooms that are trying to organize to get more people to Minneapolis and other key cities where violence is happening, such as Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Law enforcement is concerned anarchists are planning to try to promote more problems as soon as Saturday night. Continue reading.

Protests, fires rage through the night in Minneapolis

Washington Post logoFires raged through the night in Minneapolis after a group of demonstrators swarmed a police station, which officers had been ordered to abandon as protests intensified in a city rocked by the death of a black man in police custody. Demonstrators breached a door and entered the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station as fires spread, resulting in destruction and further upheaval.

President Trump called the protesters “THUGS,” while suggesting military intervention and warning in a tweet that there could be additional violence if the chaos continued. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” the president wrote. Trump’s tweet was later flagged by Twitter for “glorifying violence.”

The scene in Minneapolis came at the end of a day in which hundreds of peaceful protesters demanded that four now-fired officers be arrested in a case that has generated nationwide outrage. Video captured a white police officer pressing his knee into George Floyd’s neck in a banned maneuver as Floyd repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd later died. Continue reading.