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| | [[White]] [[Antifa]] [[liberal]]s were identified as smashing windows at an Autozone car parts store and Wendy's restaurant where the violence originated.<ref>https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1265906786541830144</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/vtzsYFs-2Qc</ref> ''Jacobin'' magazine, described as "the closest thing to a flagship publication of the [[DSA]] left",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1195/walking-the-tightrope/ |title=Walking the Tightrope |last=Creegan |first=Jim |date=22 March 2018 |website=[[Weekly Worker]]|access-date=}}</ref> asked, | | [[White]] [[Antifa]] [[liberal]]s were identified as smashing windows at an Autozone car parts store and Wendy's restaurant where the violence originated.<ref>https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1265906786541830144</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/vtzsYFs-2Qc</ref> ''Jacobin'' magazine, described as "the closest thing to a flagship publication of the [[DSA]] left",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1195/walking-the-tightrope/ |title=Walking the Tightrope |last=Creegan |first=Jim |date=22 March 2018 |website=[[Weekly Worker]]|access-date=}}</ref> asked, |
| | {{quotebox|"Should we care about the looting of stores like Target and Autozone? ...Should we participate in this ritual condemnation even though our media consistently treats identical acts of property destruction by sports fans as simply revelry and exuberance, and corporate looting of working-class communities as business as usual? No.... until working people of all races unite against capitalists and their repressive apparatus, it is a good thing that bosses, government officials, and the police who protect them are sometimes reminded that black lives matter through a little proletarian fury."<ref>https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/george-floyd-minneapolis-uprising-police-brutality/</ref>}} | | {{quotebox|"Should we care about the looting of stores like Target and Autozone? ...Should we participate in this ritual condemnation even though our media consistently treats identical acts of property destruction by sports fans as simply revelry and exuberance, and corporate looting of working-class communities as business as usual? No.... until working people of all races unite against capitalists and their repressive apparatus, it is a good thing that bosses, government officials, and the police who protect them are sometimes reminded that black lives matter through a little proletarian fury."<ref>https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/george-floyd-minneapolis-uprising-police-brutality/</ref>}} |
| − | [[File:White rioters in George Floyd protests.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|The real “face” of the instigators in Minneapolis. Screenshot from FB video of an Antifa black bloc<ref>https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/antifa.htm</ref> who smashed Autozone windows, carrying hammer, trying to sneak away.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gs6jwn/the_real_face_of_the_instigators_in_minneapolis/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2646114418996236</ref>]] | + | [[File:White rioters in George Floyd protests.jpeg|left|350px|thumb|The real “face” of the instigators in Minneapolis. Screenshot from FB video of an Antifa [[black bloc]]<ref>https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/antifa.htm</ref> who smashed Autozone windows, carrying hammer, trying to sneak away.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/gs6jwn/the_real_face_of_the_instigators_in_minneapolis/</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2646114418996236</ref>]] |
| | Fires, looting,<ref>https://streamable.com/6fouwt</ref> and violence spread to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] and nationwide from the burning of the Autozone store, Target, and Wendy's. Both the Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors identified the vast majority of arrests of leftwing rioters the first night were from out of state;<ref>https://www.fox9.com/news/twin-cities-mayors-vast-majority-of-violent-rioters-are-from-out-of-state</ref> crossing state lines to incite riot is a federal offense. | | Fires, looting,<ref>https://streamable.com/6fouwt</ref> and violence spread to [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] and nationwide from the burning of the Autozone store, Target, and Wendy's. Both the Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors identified the vast majority of arrests of leftwing rioters the first night were from out of state;<ref>https://www.fox9.com/news/twin-cities-mayors-vast-majority-of-violent-rioters-are-from-out-of-state</ref> crossing state lines to incite riot is a federal offense. |
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