This thread begins day one of my Minneapolis uprising coverage. I’ll be on the streets for up to 12 hours a day as I scurry around to catch any and all fallout/chaos from the end of the Derek Chauvin trial.
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“Media, bro... this shit is not for you.”
The crowd bitched out news media who swarmed to the front when Jesse Jackson made a surprise appearance in downtown Minneapolis tonight.
Nothing too exciting here, although it does show off the size of the crowd for those curious
It’s worth mentioning that tonight was completely peaceful. There were no altercations or instances of vandalism that I witnessed. As I’ll show in a bit though, there was an undercurrent to some speeches that this could change should Chauvin not be found guilty.
A few pics from tonight’s March.
“Fuck the National Guard. Fuck the MPD. Fuck the National Guard. Fuck the MPD.”
I’m not 100% sure the context here, but I believe this guy started defending some police, and he was promptly ridiculed by the crowd and thrown out. Not sure what started it, it was really hard to hear among the other crowd noise:
Poetry time.
The crowd chants for the names of various people shot by police. It ends with the recent death of a 13 year old in Chicago who fled police while carrying a weapon.
Today this guy helped lead a March where high schoolers walked out of their school in “solidarity” with BLM and he started complaining that teachers didn’t follow suit.
I think Kim Potter deserves a manslaughter charge for confusing her gun with a tazer, but this is some extremist rhetoric meant to do nothing but rile up a crowd. It’s genuinely insane. One must only watch the body cam footage for it to be clear that it WAS an accident.
This lady demands more people hit the street, regardless of Chauvin’s verdict. She also goes on to say that they will continuing visiting certain people’s homes cuz they don’t deserve to feel comfortable there.
All this noise is near where the jury is holed up.
Anyways. This ends my day one coverage. We’re still in the calm before the storm, but if my footage from last week proves anything (a clip is down below), it’s that we are on the cusp of chaos, especially if Chauvin doesn’t get found guilty on all charges.
Once again. I’ll be on the ground all week, so if you like my wholly independent coverage, please consider supporting it down below.
See ya tomorrow with another thread. I expect it to be quite for a couple days. I predict we have a verdict on Thursday.
Quiet*
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