Of anarchy
AGAINST MURDER RAP COP
the ruined Third Police Precinct – where Chauvin and three other officers sacked over Mr Floyd’s fatal arrest had been based.
Through tear-gassed streaming eyes, I watched as the National Guard joined hundreds of militarised police and loudspeaker announcements were made telling the crowds to disperse. No one listened.
Instead, over the next three hours, the demonstrators slowly walked forwards for several miles until not one police officer was left in sight.
It was clear authorities had underestimated the size and tactics of protestors who, as the night wore on, were 42-year-old was shot dead after supposedly aiming a gun at police. A grand jury decided the use of force was justified.
In the same year, a prison inmate filed a civil rights lawsuit against Minneapolis officers, including
Chauvin.
And two other people reportedly died when their car was hit by replaced by rioters. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz later said: “This is the largest concentration of law enforcement in the history of Minnesota. And it’s not enough.”
One of those on the streets, Karis Jameel, 24, said: “If they could tell me a better way to change America that ends police brutality, then I will leave the streets.
“They have no answers.
The only time we are listened to is when cities burn, and they’re burning now.”
Meanwhile, Melvin Carter, mayor of neighbouring a vehicle being chased by Chauvin and Officer Terry Nutter in 2005. Hours after Chauvin’s arrest on Friday, his former beauty queen wife of 10 years, right, filed for divorce.
Laos-born Kellie, a 2018 Mrs Minnesota winner, announced through her lawyers that she made the decision after being left
“devastated”
Saint Paul, which with Minneapolis makes up the ‘Twin Cities’, said all those arrested there on Friday were from “out of state”.
Governor Walz also estimated 80 per cent of rioters were not local.
It is clear when stood watching the violence that much of it is led by whites, not blacks.
Although history has a habit of distorting the truth over such events, the African American community, although angry, did not appear to me to be behind
much of the destruction. by Mr Floyd’s death. In a statement, they said: “Her utmost sympathy lies with Mr Floyd’s family, his loved ones and with everyone grieving.”
Chauvin, who posed for a police mugshot after his arrest, has been sacked – along with the three other cops involved in Mr Floyd’s arrest last Monday.
Officers Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng have not yet been charged.