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US: Far-left Antifa and BLM protesters loot stores, attack police, and set fire to buildings (VIDEO)
Intense video footage has emerged out of Minneapolis, Minnesota which shows violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters along with far-left Antifa members looting department stores, attacking police officers, and setting fire to buildings.
The protests and riots come after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on Monday after being handcuffed and having his neck pinned to the ground by an overzealous police officer’s knee. The entire incident was recorded on video and has sparked widespread outrage among the country’s African American community, a community which feels unjustly persecuted by police officers.
Since the video surfaced, all four police officers involved in Floyd’s death have been fired – but people are calling for further and more severe punitive measures to be taken against the officers.
Protests across Minneapolis which began on Tuesday escalated dramatically on Wednesday evening, with multiple fires being set, widespread looting, a fatal shooting near site of protests, and the deployment of teargas, local media reports.
Mass arson attacks and looting still on-going in Minneapolis. #BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloyd #antifa pic.twitter.com/E4Tybzrwkv
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 28, 2020
Autozone was fully set ablaze
pic.twitter.com/CsR7EkIpAT
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 28, 2020
Firefighters, while responding to a fire ripping through an auto parts store, were attacked by protesters, leaving them unable to put out the fire. Protesters also attacked the Minneapolis’ Third Precinct police headquarters, hurling objects at it before eventually setting fire to it as well. Looters also made off with TVs, clothing, groceries, and other retail items from the local Target store.
The scene inside of a Minneapolis Target
pic.twitter.com/MmaSn08QLv
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 28, 2020
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey plead for the protesters to “keep the peace”, urging them not to “let tragedy beget extra tragedy”. Frey also has asked the state’s government to deploy the Minnesota National Guard to help stop the widespread looting and violence.
In a press conference on Wednesday evening, Frey called for the police officer who was directly involved in the death of Floyd to be arrested, saying: “Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?”
If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now.”
“We are not talking about a split-second decision that was made incorrectly,” Frey said. “There’s somewhere around 300 seconds in those five minutes, every one of which the officer could have turned back … and removed his knee from George Floyd’s neck.”
Across the country, in Los Angeles, Black Lives Matters protesters blocked off the 101 Freeway near the downtown area and attacked police vehicles.
Black Lives Matter protestors attack a police cars on the 101 freeway in LA during a protest against the death of George Floyd pic.twitter.com/fYseS5TtfY
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 28, 2020
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/us-far-left-antifa-and-blm-protesters-loot-stores-attack-police-and-set-fire-to-buildings-video/