As break-ins and fires raged in the first days of protests, Minneapolis seemed to descend into a security vacuum. That’s when armed neighborhood groups started forming.
Volunteers with Security Latinos De La Lake secure a business as they work to protect homes and businesses during continued demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, an African American man, by a Minneapolis police officer.Volunteers with Security Latinos De La Lake secure a business as they work to protect homes and businesses during continued demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, an African American man, by a Minneapolis police officer.
"I'm the one that's checking everyone," she says."If you're up here with a gun and you're not supposed to be here and you don't have a license to carry, then I don't allow you to even go to the rooftop. Only people with guns are on the rooftop."Volunteer Cesia Baires checks on neighbors to make they are safe as sometimes-violent and destructive protests continue.
Armed volunteers take up rooftop positions in a Minneapolis neighborhood; those who are not allowed to carry guns are kept off the roof.Armed volunteers take up rooftop positions in a Minneapolis neighborhood; those who are not allowed to carry guns are kept off the roof.Baires' restaurant is right next to Hector Hernandez's taqueria. The boarded-up windows outside are spray-painted with George Floyd's final words as he begged for his life from police."Mama.
Security Latinos De La Lake does what it can to protect homes and businesses in a mostly brown and black neighborhood.Security Latinos De La Lake does what it can to protect homes and businesses in a mostly brown and black neighborhood.All of this has fueled speculation and rumor among protesters on the streets all the way up to state and local officials. Right now, in the chaos of an uprising, the who and why are just not clear.
Martinez says of all the businesses in this community, only two Latino shops have survived where people can buy food.Now, any unfamiliar vehicle or person sparks suspicion. Martinez's group, coordinates with an Indigenous motorcycle group across the street surrounding the Red Lake Nation Embassy.
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