A protester walks past military police in riot gear as they block protesters across from the White House on May 30, 2020 in Washington DC, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes.
Officials estimated Saturday morning that only 20 percent of the rioters in Minneapolis were actually from Minnesota, and while that was later walked back, reporting confirms that the city has become a bug light for out-of-state anarchists and agitators.
Pittsburgh's police chief said protests there had been hijacked by "White males" dressed in black.
In Rochester, where cars were flipped over and set ablaze, police blamed "Anarchists" and "Paid protesters."
His response: "To destroy everythingNo more nations, no more governments, no more property, no more God or religion." Eventually some new world order is supposed to arise.
As Scott McConnell has written, "It is a political rule of thumb that street violence and disorder eventually redounds to the benefit of the party that can put an end to it." Consider President Richard Nixon, who declared of criminals and rioters in 1970, "Let's recognize them for what they are: not romantic revolutionaries but the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued a good people." Two years earlier, he'd been elected after promising to get tough on crime; two years later, he was reelected in a landslide.
Otherwise the urgent problem of police abuse will go unmet yet again, guaranteeing another Minneapolis.
Officials estimated Saturday morning that only 20 percent of the rioters in Minneapolis were actually from Minnesota, and while that was later walked back, reporting confirms that the city has become a bug light for out-of-state anarchists and agitators.
Pittsburgh's police chief said protests there had been hijacked by "White males" dressed in black.
In Rochester, where cars were flipped over and set ablaze, police blamed "Anarchists" and "Paid protesters."
His response: "To destroy everythingNo more nations, no more governments, no more property, no more God or religion." Eventually some new world order is supposed to arise.
As Scott McConnell has written, "It is a political rule of thumb that street violence and disorder eventually redounds to the benefit of the party that can put an end to it." Consider President Richard Nixon, who declared of criminals and rioters in 1970, "Let's recognize them for what they are: not romantic revolutionaries but the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued a good people." Two years earlier, he'd been elected after promising to get tough on crime; two years later, he was reelected in a landslide.
Otherwise the urgent problem of police abuse will go unmet yet again, guaranteeing another Minneapolis.
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