People gathered at Chicago Ave. and East 38th Street during a rally in Minneapolis on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Federal authorities are investigating a white Minneapolis police officer for possible civil rights violations, after a video surface showing (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Image / Getty Images)
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The protest began at the corner of 38th and Chicago on the south side of Minneapolis. Protesters were seen blocking the intersection by sitting in the crosswalks and using their own vehicles to block traffic.
People hold signs and sit on a bus stop during a protest near where a Minneapolis Police Department officer allegedly killed George Floyd, on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - A video of a handcuffed black man dying while a Minneapolis office (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Protesters damage Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct following George Floyd death
Following the death of George Floyd, protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis.
Later, protesters moved toward the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd precinct where crowds swelled. People were seen throwing rocks at the building and spray painting a police car.
Protesters continued to block traffic and keep the roads closed into the evening. As the crowds grew, the ACLU of Minnesota reminded protesters to keep their distance to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Protesters gather in Minneapolis after man dies in police custody
Protesters gathered at the scene where Minneapolis police arrested George Floyd. Floyd later died in police custody.
Later Tuesday night, Minneapolis Police responded to a shooting in the area of 38th and Chicago. Gunshots could be heard in video of the incident obtained by FOX 9. Police say one individual sustained non-life threatening injuries in that incident.
Shooting near 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis
Gunshots can be heard at 38th and Chicago Tuesday night where protesters gathered earlier in the day. Large scale protests were already occurring at the 3rd Minneapolis Police precinct when this shooting occured. (Alex Kjornes)
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(Video taken at 5:45pm but wouldn't upload due to service issues).
Sound of motorcycles revving sends crowd at George Floyd protest running, many confused or scared by what's happening. Motorcyclists actually there in support of protest/march.@WCCOpic.twitter.com/yXJpKQqMS5
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) May 27, 2020
A few mins agoin Minneapolis, from our stream: SWAT formation rapidly deployed to defend liquor store items from people entering the store after its door was broken. ~3 arrests made inside the Minnehaha Liquor by the 3rd precinct pic.twitter.com/TfSS8rCwvG
Our Minneapolis #GeorgeFloyd protest stream is back up, now with increased quality. We will stay live for you, networks permitting:https://t.co/4DTgvFtAzQ
AutoZone and Wendy’s are all but burned down at this point. Some new condos under construction have gone up in flames as well. pic.twitter.com/MXQsKwXVAM
I have one question... how exactly this is going to bring justice for #GeorgeFloyd ?
— Rosario Photography (@rosariophotog) May 28, 2020
Well great job to whoever burned it down. Lots of BLACK, white, asian and Latino adults are out of work permanently from that job. Thousands of pounds of food, gone. People, including black people relied on that. If this is real, I really hope whoever did this is found and jailed
By 1 a.m., Mayor Jacob Frey, a first-term Democrat, said he was calling in the National Guard and state police to help get the scene under control. He pleaded for peace and urged people to go home pic.twitter.com/0h4uL3UGPX
This is the Walgreens on E Lake Street. Police and firefighters stopped responding long ago. Seems like they are giving people the “space” to riot and loot all night and into the morning. When firefighters responded earlier to a fire, people began pelting rocks at them.
Rapper Cardi B says the people who broke into and looted stores in Minnesota on Wednesday were left with "no choice" but to resort to violence and steal from stores in response to the death of George Floyd, whose neck was kneeled on by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd died hours...
LA County Sheriff tells me their countywide services division is on tactical alert, as is their Central Patrol Division. Countywide services is responsible for providing security to all county buildings and Grand Park. @FOXLA
BREAKING: Protrsters now breaking the windows of CHP vehicles. It appears one protester may have been hit by a car and is motionless on the ground. @FOXLApic.twitter.com/vz6zWuicNZ
HOLY SHIT. The cop who started the vandalizing was outted by people who know him. His name is Jacob Pederson of the St. Paul PD. pic.twitter.com/vgw8EqKz5j
A protester carries the carries a U.S. flag upside-down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building on May 28, in Minneapolis. Julio Cortez/AP
Protests swept across a number of major American cities on Thursday, with crowds taking to the streets to demand action against police brutality and accountability for several related deaths.
Minneapolis and St. Paul, known as the "Twin Cities" of Minnesota, both saw huge protests. In St. Paul, protesters faced off against riot police, batting tear gas canisters back and forth. More than 170 businesses were looted or damaged by the protests, police said.
Tear gas is fired as protesters clash with police while demonstrating outside the 3rd Precinct.
Tear gas is fired as protesters clash with police while demonstrating outside the 3rd Precinct. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
And in Minneapolis, thousands of protesters surrounded a police precinct and set it on fire. They spray-painted the sides of the building, tried to climb up it, and cheered as the flames engulfed the building.
All staff inside had been evacuated prior to the fire.
A protester winces in pain after being sprayed with pepper spray by police during a demonstration near the Memphis Police Department precinct in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 28.
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The Puppet Master revealed his battle plans right there in January 2020.
The riots have now started in New York I am so sick of the same obvious Deep State Agendas playing endlessly costing American Lives and destroying our Country!
Soros January 2020: "His problem is that the elections are still 10 months away, and in a [revolutionary situation], that's a lifetime" - ...then we had the virus and now obviously organized riots.