Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

yeah, i think we're saying the same thing

Minn AG Keith Ellison is quoted acknowledging the mysterious no license plate vehicles in this article (which I otherwise have no particular opinion of):
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-protests-white-supremacists-antifa.html

Scary stuff.

friend relayed from ANOTHER friend who got it from HIS neighbors (the actual signal chain): someone found two full propane tanks between their houses in s mpls

Jesus fuck

that is terrifying

that sounds v much like white supremacist militia shit

I live in nempls and am kind of shocked at how quiet it has been here, keep waiting for the other shoe to drop

neighbors have found kerosene soaked wood in the alleys and I have seen pics online of bottles of gas and such, but that's really about it other than the shops on Central being boarded up and the police station looking like a Mad Max fort

oh and let's not forget the police union offices on University, honestly surprised there hasn't been protests there yet

I had heard that Moon Palace got burned--what a relief!

― Dan I.

I've been worried about this place too because of their location. Glad they're doing ok.

Just saw Hymies Records posting that they're doing alright and thanking the support they've had. As I mentioned on the other thread, I feel extra protective over the record stores having got to know a lot of the people working at them. We managed to get boarded up at Agharta and are closed at the moment. Hoping that my boss has been able to get home and get some rest. He had a few long nights staying over at the shop.

My wife's sister and partner live in Minneapolis and said it has been rough by them. They got out of town on Friday as they could see buildings on fire from their home. Heartbreaking to hear my sister in law say they expected to come back to their place being burned down.

Hope that everyone is hanging in there.

I hope that people are recognising the presence of that accelerant and prepared firewood and warning others about it being around. So people have a chance to check for and therefore dispose of it.
Sounds nightmarish.

Reports of a basement fire and lighter fluid found at an apartment building across the street from me last night. Seemingly the entire national guard arrived with the fire truck.

What neighborhood Geoffrey?

Stevens Square

i heard that was the building with boiler room coffee

Great thread:

Bob Kroll’s letter yesterday to the Minneapolis Police Federation membership showed us what rank-and-file officers voted for in their leadership, and it is yet another sign that the department is irredeemably beyond reform.

— Steve Fletcher - Minneapolis Ward 3 (@MplsWard3) June 2, 2020

#BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools votes unanimously to terminate its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department, in response to the death of #GeorgeFloyd.

— Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) June 2, 2020

xp

This is literally my exact experience as a Councilmember. https://t.co/8jg0YdDou4

— Phillipe Cunningham (@CunninghamMPLS) June 2, 2020

no idea what Steve Fletcher's prior record is, but respect to him for speaking truth now

Naomi Kritzer on the arsonists: https://naomikritzer.com/2020/06/03/minneapolis-outside-agitators/

Booming. Thanks. Crossposting to fuck the police thread.

Imagine being someone that actually knew and cared about George Floyd and seeing this in person pic.twitter.com/lAyXZjmibR

— Neizan (@PMDawnStan) June 4, 2020

hmmmmm

No one who lives the North Loop should be allowed to hold public office

that neizan person ... is a huge racist asshole ?

Oof

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/04/holy-land-ceo-fires-daughter-after-racist-posts-from-her-past-resurface/

The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform.

It’s time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis.

Thank you to @MplsWard3 for your leadership on this! https://t.co/AQfHM5M6eR

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 5, 2020

that Holy Land shit is fucked up

I buy that a lot

yeah hittin minnesotans where it hurts

I guess it felt better to support local than, like, Sabra or whatever

I think Emily's sells some too though

Federal prosecutors charged Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, of St. Paul with arson in connection with the fire at the 3rd pct. in Mpls May 28. Police say at the time of Wolfe's arrest, he was wearing a tactical vest with his name written on a piece of duct tape stuck to the back. pic.twitter.com/jk0Lc79ron

— Matt Sepic (@msepic) June 8, 2020

https://www.startribune.com/authorities-offering-5-000-for-information-about-suspected-arsonist-in-st-paul/571089712/

Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of a man they say set fire to a St. Paul neighborhood school and several businesses recently.

The man was seen starting fires at several locations, including Gordon Parks High School. Authorities did not know where the man lives.

Holy Shit, I know those sunken eyes, that's the Autozone guy too!

maybe

so he's the One Bad White Guy? hrrm

haha, well, apparently there were a lot of white dudes with skeletor faces out doing bad shit that night

Members of the American Indian Movement are preparing to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State capitol pic.twitter.com/8vLdELlxqG

— Max Nesterak (@maxnesterak) June 10, 2020

now do nyc

this 'scandal' regarding the MFF is making me actively furious

if you don't know, people are mad that the Minnesota Freedom Fund, dedicated to posting bail for activists, is getting dragged on all sides for having raised $35m in two weeks, and 'only' having spent 200k so far. people mad about this have literally no idea how anything works and they're carrying water for the far right. the BoD are already getting anti semitic death threats

Just looked at it on Twitter, and it's so horrifying. Makes me sick seeing that much anti-Semitism in one place.

It's crazy that this is even a remotely successful fake scandal. IT'S A BAIL FUND! It uses money AS NEEDED to bail people out! The scandal would be if they'd somehow spent MORE than was needed for bail over the past two weeks. And they can't even be accused of deliberately collecting more than they needed, because once the donations started flooding in they told people to donate elsewhere and stopped accepting money.

otm. I am sick of bad faith scandals like this and they always fucking ALWAYS seem to start with a bunch of idiots on Twitter circle-jerking.

$200,000 spent in two weeks for bail for minor crimes that you get arrested for at protests = still a lot of money spent on bail!

$35 million spent in two weeks = someone at MFF has a coke habit and embezzled the money

I made a Twitter thread just to try get some clarity:

MFF Facebook post from May 29, the day after the police station went up in flames pic.twitter.com/YI94QwRhM3

— Bernard Snowy (@wasntmebro) June 17, 2020

For further context: last night I saw some viral thing on Twitter calling out Black Visions Collective and Reclaim The Block (will look for the tweets in a minute) and saying "lol how convenient that the fake scandal around MFF is sucking up all the oxygen as this is going on...!"

Anyway the content of the tweets was not really important, just a lot of hearsay that I have no reason to credit. Worst case scenario, given those two organizations were signal-boosted by MFF early on, they could just be struggling with a version of the same drinking-from-the-firehose issue. At least one Minnesota ilxor in another thread specifically vouched for Reclaim The Block as a "great org" so I'm not too worried.

I expect not a single one of those fanning the flames donated one single dollar to any of these organizations.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/17/twin-cities-pride-cancels-2020-virtual-lgbtq-parade-honoring-ashley-rukes/

The idea a nonprofit could get that much money in such a short time and draft any sort of plan or statement of how they’re going to use those funds, when their core group is busy doing their primary task, over the course of several weeks, is an insane expectation

yeah, seriously. i'm sick of these insta-react scandals

if anything, pepole can protest knowing their bail will be covered out there

A lot of the criticism was way overblown, they definitely need to spend some time figuring out how to handle all that money.

I also think this is not an unreasonable demand.

'Community Call' for the @MNFreedomFund to set aside a small percentage of their funds for long-term legal support for all arrestees—even the ones with unsavory charges.

We get free together or not at all! pic.twitter.com/05fDMuaWZZ

— The Minnesota Wild (@lets_go_wild) June 18, 2020

yeah I totally agree with that, a lot of those "scary" charges are trumped up anyway

https://www.facebook.com/100027937897130/posts/609647896643135/?d=n

Lay off the sugar, lay off the racism, I always say.