Begun as a truly peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the protests quickly devolved into riots, looting, arson . . . and, eventually, perhaps inevitably, murder.
This conflagration of lawlessness quickly morphed into a nation-wide push by various aligned Marxist and anarchist groups to destroy America, capitalism, history,...
Why did Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) move to America if it’s so oppressive and racist?
Omar delivered a speech with the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous Caucus in her home state. The press conference “was to address ‘racism in policing’ in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.”
The school says this is about the difficulty of scheduling tests due to the Coronavirus, but one has to wonder if it isn’t also about loosening requirements due to worries about low enrollment.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:
University of Minnesota...
The City Council of Minneapolis recently voted unanimously to defund the city’s police department. Now certain members of the council claim they are getting threats, so they have been given private security.
At taxpayer expense, naturally.
This happened at St. Olaf College, which was the site of a campus race hoax a few years ago. Also, she is scared of theater students? Really?
The College Fix reports:
Theater prof cites ‘white rage,’ fear of white students as reason for leaving job
A St. Olaf College theater department professor blamed “white...
This is so perfect.
An uber-progressive neighborhood in Minneapolis has vowed not to call the cops on people in the community and instead to utilize the American Indian Movement to help solve local grievances.
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Kris Wyrobek, president and CEO of 7-Sigma, decided to move his business out of Minneapolis after rioters burned his plant to the ground.
Wyrobek does not “trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn.” The city will lose 50 jobs.
The Minneapolis city council voted to abolish the Minneapolis police department.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota asked Bender who people will call if someone robbed their home. President Lisa Bender said the ability to call the police in that case “comes from a place of privilege.”
The thing about revolutionary mobs is that eventually they consume their own.
Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who made headlines yesterday by ostentatiously crying at the casket of George Floyd, found that out today.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will lead the prosecution in the George Floyd case with assistance from Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. It turns out “some elected offici...
There has already been anti-police sentiment on college campuses, and this situation is playing right into activists’ hands.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Minnesota to cut ties with Minneapolis Police Department, but students say it’s not enough
The University of Minnesota announced that the university will no longer use services from the Minneapolis Police...
The video of George Floyd pinned down on his stomach, hands cuffed behind him, with Officer Derek Chauvin pinning him down with a knee to the neck, is hard to watch. Among other things, Floyd pleads with the officers that he can’t breath.
In a CNN segment discussing the riots in Minneapolis over George Floyd’s death, Obama administration alum Van Jones, said, “It’s not the racist white person who is in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about,” Jones said. “It’s the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in...
MSNBC is so laughable. Reporter Ali Velshi said on air that the Minneapolis protests in response to the George Floyd killing are generally “unruly.”
Velshi said this as he stood in front of a burning building.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar came under fire on Wednesday when a report revealed that back in 2006 she did not prosecute the policeman who allegedly murdered George Floyd. Kemberlee noted that she blew her chance to become Biden’s VP.
But the left and right came out in full force on social media, dragging...
Minneapolis police arrested a CNN crew, including reporter Omar Jimenez, who is black and Latino, early this morning.
CNN’s Josh Campbell said he was also confronted by the police, but after he identified himself, the cops let him stay.
These students are challenging the status quo, and who can blame them?
The College Fix reports:
University of Minnesota unconstitutionally showers student money on left-wing groups: lawsuit
A student group and two students are challenging the University of Minnesota’s process for distributing mandatory student fees and the absence of “written standards” and an “appeal...
