1/Some important stories we've reported on Minneapolis and the forces behind what's happening.
First, how Trump always planned to make MN a keystone to a campaign built on fanning racial animosity, by @timothypmurphy: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
First, how Trump always planned to make MN a keystone to a campaign built on fanning racial animosity, by @timothypmurphy: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
2/ How the Minneapolis Police Union—run by a "Cops for Trump" racist—kept offering dangerous "Warrior Training" after the Mayor and MPD tried to ban it: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
3/ Derek Chauvin and 92% of the MPD (!!!) don't live in the neighborhoods they police or ANY part of Minneapolis: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
4/ It's also a huge problem that a lot of the protestors doing the most destruction have no ties to those communities either.
5/ But that @Target was an original target of protesters is no coincidence: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
6/ Like many black communities the one George Floyd was killed in was already reeling from COVID, and related job loses: motherjones.com/coronavirus-up…
7/ George Floyd wasn't the only Black person recently murdered by the police. #BreonnaTaylor was killed by police serving a no-knock warrant. A method vastly disproportionately used against African Americans: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
8/ In fact you may not know that #TonyMcDade, a Black trans-masculine person, was also just killed by Tallahassee police: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
9/ Speaking of Florida, here's the backstory behind just how vile Trump's "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" comment: motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
10/ Here's our video on the origins of "when the looting starts, the shooting starts"--with bonus insane @GeraldoRivera comment:
11/ New big piece from @sjmichaels on Bob Kroll, the far-right leader of the Minneapolis police union who activists and officials blame for the reactionary, racist police department motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
