[49], In Minneapolis, by 2020, the relationship between the community, particularly among city's black residents, and the Minneapolis Police Department had deteriorated after several killings of residents by police officers and by what some considered displays of racial insensitivity by police leaders. Frequent cases of police misconduct and fatal use of force by law enforcement officers in the U.S., particularly against African Americans, have long led the civil rights movement and other activists to protest against the lack of police accountability in incidents involving excessive force. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey for slow riot response", "George Floyd protests gave him purpose. The statement, which made no mention of officer Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck, came a few hours before a bystander's video surfaced and became widely circulated in the media. The purpose of the National Guard is to protect people, to protect people safely demonstrating, and to protect small business owners. The landmark restaurant burned down on May 28, 2020, after police vacated the third police precinct building and abandoned the East Lake Street area. 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[58][59], After the bystander's video became more widely circulated, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo held a late-morning press conference to react to the graphic details captured in it and express solidarity with the community's growing sense of anger. [9], A 28-year-old man from Saint Paul faced attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting at Minneapolis police on Lake Street during unrest on May 30, 2020. [24], Economic conditions for people and businesses worsened in Minneapolis and Saint Paul after the riots. Ortiz, Erik and Mendell, Donna (27 May 2020). Even the death of Taylor, the EMT from Louisville, didn’t receive much national attention for two months; it became part of the public discussion about police brutality after Floyd … [21] State officials also remarked that the city's decision to abandon the precinct station was a misjudgment, allowing demonstrators to create a situation of "absolute chaos", in the words of Walz. [82] The charred remains of the victim, the second death during the unrest, was not recovered until nearly two months later on July 20[28] and was not identified until October 20. Several businesses also burned on West Broadway in north Minneapolis, including a barbershop that was destroyed by fire. [81], The intensity of demonstrations increased as dozens of businesses were looted and set on fire on East Lake Street in Minneapolis near the city's third police precinct station. [21] The chaos and destruction in Minneapolis and Saint Paul became a subject of debate for politicians that attempted to assign blame to state and city officials for how they managed the crisis, while others pointed to historic factors of racial injustice that fueled public outrage. Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated, mainly peacefully, across the United States for an eighth night following the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody. [50][48][51] In the city's Powderhorn Park neighborhood, where Floyd was killed, some argued there was a persisting distrust between the police and black community. [262] The shooting death of Dolal Idd on December 30, 2020—the first killing by a Minneapolis police officer since Floyd[263]—was reported as the city's 83 homicide of 2020,[264] a number that eclipsed the previous two years combined. "The joys of live television," co-host Shannon Bream added. Many state and local officials attended, including governor Walz, U.S. He later told reporters that he made the decision because some officers kept weapons in their vehicles that could be taken. The report was based on media stories, social media posts, and summer legislative hearings on the government response to unrest in the metro region. Officials acknowledged the emphasis came at the expense of family- and minority-owned business, many of which were burned or plundered by looters. One Minneapolis business that suffered heavy damage to its factory from the fires, 7-Sigma, said they would leave the city for good after losing trust in public officials during the riots. [22], The several-hundred contingent of state patrol and National Guard troops on the ground in Minneapolis that night largely escorted fire trucks around and protected a Federal Reserve building and areas of downtown Minneapolis. [198] The other co-defendant, Garret Patrick Ziegler, then 24-years old, from Long Lake, Minnesota,[197] pled guilty to one count of adding and abetting arson. [39], The riots in late May 2020 also had impact on people experiencing homelessness and led to changes in city policies on homeless camps. Floyd died after being taken into custody and restrained by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day in Minnesota. Council member Jeremiah Ellison said in a media interview that night that the police should "sacrifice" the station, while council member Linea Palmisano expressed privately to a city official that such a move would result in "ultimate chaos". Our streets." [9] Two additional suspects, a husband and wife from Rochester, Minnesota, were charged in February 2021 for fires they set in Saint Paul on May 28. [229] The owner of the Gandhi Mahal Restaurant near Minnehaha Avenue who famously said, “Let my building burn. [246] A few days after the 2020 election, Minneapolis Council President Lisa Bender announced that she would not seek reelection to her tenth ward seat. [254], The Minneapolis City Council approved a resolution on July 17, 2020, declaring racism a public health emergency and outlining a series of action steps to address racial equity in the city. Beaty, who was well known in the community, was reportedly killed while attempting to stop a mugging. [229], The civil rights movement sparked by Floyd's death, as well as mitigation measures over the COVID-19 pandemic, led to a surge in voter registration in 2020. On June 7th, a 24-year-old man named Stephan Cannon was charged with the first-degree murder of Dorn.Â, Max Brewer. Brewer is an Atlanta police officer who was assisting with traffic control during a night of protests when a man driving an ATV sped through an intersection and hit him. Activists criticized the four-day delay that it took Freeman's office to bring charges against Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and the lack of charges by that date against the other three officers involved in Floyd's death—J. The city tallied 84 homicides in 2020 according to one media database, which put the year as the second most deadly after 1995 when the city was given the grim moniker, "Muderapolis". [203] Authorities believed he had travelled to Minnesota from North Carolina to take part in rioting and looting in the aftermath of Floyd's death. A food drive in the Little Earth community resulted in enough packages of food and diapers to serve 1,000 residents and 7,500 people from the nearby neighborhoods. Protesters gathered at the city's Bottineau Field Park, marched past the Minneapolis Police Federation's union headquarters, and ended at Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's private home. [158][159] It was noted that no guardsmen were present during rioting on the May 29, which destroyed numerous businesses in Minneapolis; streets were not cleared until the next day. She was shot and killed in 2017 while trying to make an arrest on a murder suspect.Â, Another image collage claims that “four honorable men” had either been killed or injured by rioters.Â, Here’s what we know about these four individuals.Â, Chris Beaty. At least 7 people have been shot and killed in this weekend's anti-police violence protests in the wake of George Floyd's death Rhea Mahbubani 2020-06-01T22:36:00Z [72] The response from firefighters in the area was delayed as crews required police escorts for protection from rioters. [269] Encampments spread to 40 park sites by summer and several remained into late 2020 despite efforts to connect residents to shelters. Over the ensuing weeks, his family filed a missing persons report and conducted a search of its own for Stewart, and eventually tracked his car's GPS to behind the pawnshop. [41], During the unrest, police forces fired tear gas and less-lethal munitions at crowds of people that included bystanders and reporters. The message criticized Frey and Walz for not containing the riots and commending the work of responding officers, and he characterized the protests as a "terrorist movement", a claim he also made about the Black Lives Matter movement in 2016. [66] The rally was initially peaceful,[21] but police later fired rubber bullets and chemical irritants as some protesters began breaking the precinct's windows; some activists again tried to stop people from vandalizing it further. [18] In 2017, the shooting of Justine Damond, a white woman, led to a 12-year prison sentence for the police officer, a black man, who shot her. However, the city settled a lawsuit for $57,900 with one protester who was hit in the eye with a rubber bullet while walking from a demonstration on May 30, 2020. Inhalation death of Oscar Lee Stewart Jr. Caputo, Angela, Craft, Will and Gilbert, Curtis (30 June 2020). Burks, Megan Burks and Martinez, Kathryn Styer (27 July 2020). [164] Federal, state, and local officials refused to comment on the documents, saying they were obtained illegally and contained law enforcement-sensitive information. [106], A dramatic event unfolded shortly after 6:00 p.m. CDT, when an estimated crowd of 5,000 to 6,000 people gathered on the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. [250], Civic unrest after Floyd's death came in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection. [67] Police documents that were leaked to the public stated that white supremacist groups, including the Hells Angels and Aryan Cowboys, had discussed discrediting protests by posing as demonstrators. The incident took place on East Lake Street about one mile (1.6 km) from the main protest site on the evening of May 27. Hagedorn argued that lawlessness and the "defund the police" movement in Minneapolis could spread to rural towns in southern Minnesota. "[127] Council Member Linea Palmisano attended the rally as an audience member, but did not go on stage or take the oath, and Council Members Lisa Goodman and Kevin Reich did not attend nor agree to the pledge. Three other former Minnesota police officers have been charged in the death of George Floyd, court records show. [228], Several large businesses announced immediate plans to rebuild after the riots. [19][20], Over a three-night period from May 27 to May 29, Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage from rioting and looting—largely along a 5-mile (8.0 km) stretch of Lake Street south of downtown[21]—including the demise of the city's third police precinct building, which was overrun by demonstrators and set on fire. [27] By early June, violence in the Twin Cities metropolitan region had resulted in at least 2 deaths,[28] 604 arrests, and upwards of $500 million in damage to approximately 1,500 properties, the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Did a Man Bury 42 School Buses Underground? Justice needs to be served,” during the initial riots,[231] became an international symbol of the unrest. When police officers arrived in response to the shooting, bystanders threw objectors at the officers as they administered aid to Horton, Jr. and attempted to investigate the scene, leading the officers abort the investigation. [26] Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated the Minnesota National Guard in response to the riots, which resulted in the largest deployment of its troops since World War II. In her successful campaign to defeat longtime incumbent Colin Peterson, a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor caucus, for the Minnesota seventh congressional district seat, Republican Michelle Fischbach echoed Trump’s "law and order" rhetoric that blamed Democrats for unrest in America’s cities. Biden's biggest gains from the 2016 election were in the suburbs of Minneapolis–Saint Paul where some residents identified systematic racism as a major problem in the country. [265], By the end of 2020, Minneapolis reported 5,422 violent crimes in the year, a 21% increase compared to the 4,496 reported in 2019. Several metro area cities also set curfews of their own. Were Several Cops Killed at George Floyd Protests? [242][243], In October 2020, Minnesota Senate Republicans released a 61-page report that placed blame on Walz and Frey for not doing enough to quell rioting behavior as the situation escalated in late May. [35][169] Other participants said that cleaning up helped calm intense emotions about the events. Dave Patrick Underwood. Underwood was working as a contract security officer for the Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service (FPS) at a U.S. [217] In December 2020, the Minneapolis city council voted to redirect $7.7 million of the department's proposed $179 million budget to mental health crisis teams, violence prevention programs, and for civilian employees to handle non-emergency theft and property damage reports. [94], The de-escalation strategy of abandoning the third precinct station the previous night was said to have little effect on quelling unrest on Friday. More than 9,300 people have been arrested in United States protests since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, according to … The Hennepin County Medical Examiner found Horton was turned sideways. [107] A semi-truck tanker, unaware the road was closed, drove through the crowd as they parted ways to avoid being run down. 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[92] Meanwhile, the Target Corporation expanded its closure of stores to 73 in Minnesota. [25] Minneapolis officials eventually waived the property tax requirement after the issue generated public scrutiny. "Watch: Tanker truck speeds towards protesters on I-35W bridge", "Bogdan Vechirko Accused of Driving Tanker Truck Through Minneapolis Crowd", "BREAKING: Semi-Truck Speeds Into Minneapolis George Floyd Protest Marchers On I-35W Bridge", "Minnesota officials now say no evidence the trucker intentionally drove into protesters Sunday", "Trucker who drove into protesters on 35W Bridge released without charges", "Walz: Minnesota attorney general to take lead in Floyd case", "Thousands gather at governor's mansion to protest Floyd's death". Morrison, Aaron and Sullivan, Tim (4 June 2020). But after several days of clashes with the police and protesters, he sent a controversial email to Minneapolis rank-and-file police officers. [261], In Saint Paul, the city experienced 33 homicides in 2020, which was just short of the 1992 record of 34, and higher than the 31 in 2019. [9], Local authorities charged a 35-year-old man from Otsego, Minnesota with several felony and misdemeanor accounts in connection with a truck-driving incident on I-35W northbound on May 31, 2020. [45] By 2015, homeownership rates in the Twin Cities were 75 percent for white families, but only 23 percent for black families, one of the largest disparities in the nation. Luscome, Richard and Ho, Vivian (7 Jun 2020). Tim Walz Activates National Guard In Response To George Floyd Protests", "City of Saint Paul Emergency Declaration May 29, 2020", "Gov. Saint Paul police officers armed with batons and gas masks patrolled the city's busiest commercial corridor and kept looters out of a Target store while other business windows were smashed. The article Hernandez cited as a source reported 13 deaths and nine of the people identified in the article were Black. [233] The owners of Town Talk diner on East Lake Street sued the city for $4.5 million.

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