'It’s just destruction. And it makes me so sad, I can hardly stand it.” Protests related to George Floyd's death in police custody boiled over last night in Minneapolis. A police spokesperson said officials might bring in the National Guard. MPRnews
Police spokesperson John Elder said officers responding to a reported stabbing near the protests Wednesday night found a man lying on the sidewalk with what turned out to be a bullet wound. The man was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Elder said the facts leading up to the shooting were “still being sorted out.”
The AutoZone near the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis, which was on fire Wednesday night, has been destroyed.“There's an industrial building across the street from me that's smoking. There's affordable housing that was being built that is still on fire ... there is a Wendy's that is completely demolished in the parking lot. Target has been looted. Cub has been looted ... and blockades everywhere,” he said.
Metro Transit said Blue Line light rail trains, which run along Hiawatha Avenue with a station at Lake Street, would not run until further notice, and that there would not be replacement bus service. “These are Minneapolis residents, Minneapolis voters,” she said. “Some of them obviously are immigrant entrepreneurs, and they face already so many other challenges with immigrant status, language barriers, general instability in such a difficult moment.”The chaos Wednesday erupted a day after after four Minneapolis police officers were fired in the wake of theThe video sparked waves of outrage here and across the county.
"White people who are conscious can look at that video and they can see the same things that we saw, which is a man murdered in broad daylight in front of our eyes, on video, and the officers — all four of them — their callous disregard for a black life and human life."as he and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo urged peaceful protests.
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