I took some screenshots from various live streamers of some interesting or crazy moments from last night and this morning's riots in Minneapolis/St. Paul, as it was all happening.
A masked protestor taunts police at the 3rd Precinct station
cr: Unicorn Riot
Someone wrote "Can you hear us now?" on the roof of a building near the 3rd precinct building
cr: KARE 11
Some dumbass dances on top of a car in front of a building being reduced to rubble thanks to an arsonist
cr: Regg Inkagnedo
Looters inside a Wells Fargo branch, apparently they didn't find any money
cr: Regg Inkagnedo
An upside down USPS van burns in the street
cr: Unicorn Riot
A different view of the postal van from a different streamer
cr: Regg Inkagnedo
An Arbys close to the police station burns, with an edited Don't Walk signal in the foreground
cr: Unicorn Riot
A rioter puts his fist up, as the police station is entered
cr: Unicorn Riot
The Minneapolis PD abandoned the 3rd Precinct, expecting it to get completely destroyed. Rioters entered it, looted what gear was left behind, and tried to set it on fire
cr: Unicorn Riot
A police uniform looted from the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct Station burns
credit: Unicorn Riot
A car burns in the Target parking lot, across the street from the police station
cr: KARE 11
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Beer looted from the liquor store across the street from the station is smashed and enjoyed
cr: Water Wave TV
A force of State Police took a journey St. Paul's main drag, University Ave, into the neighborhood. I never figured out what they were up to
cr: Minnesota News Now
State Police outside of Midway Target in St. Paul
cr: Max Chillin
A protestor/rioter hides behind a dumpster while police advance on him. Shortly after this moment, the protestor shoved the dumpster and bolted down the street behind him. The police did not catch up to him, and barely tried.
cr: I think this was Minnesota News Now but I forgot to tag it
For 20 years, I lived five blocks east of the Third Precinct and went into it once to report a burglary (case never solved). But when I watched drone footage of the area yesterday, with so many buildings ablaze I found it hard to identify landmarks.
I was constantly checking Google maps to see which buildings were on fire and what places were being put in danger by those fires. Ghandi Mahal is likely toast, thanks to a fire started in a check cashing place in an adjacent building (third screenshot in this post).
Can't digest a civilized society becomes so uncivilized to do far more damage which does not help at all.
Two days ago, they had police blocking roads in St Louis Park along 394. Mostly frontage roads, not quite sure why...
Huh, that's pretty odd. Wonder if it was something unrelated.
It was the night that the Target and the Auto Zone burned, so probably not. They were gone by 5:00AM the following morning.
Protecting West End? Haha. I guess they had poor situational awareness and nothing better to do.
Actually, it was closer to the BP by 394 & Louisiana. The south side Wayzata Blvd was blocked right at the light.
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there is a band from Minneapolis that I like very much called Hammerhead. hope that guys are ok :) @pfunk, keep safe if you are somewhere there
Thank you
just stay away from those riots, looks nasty on TV :)
It's probably a good thing I live an hour away from Minneapolis. I would have been tempted to go out with the camera and document the mess and probably wound up tear gassed or worse.