Minneapolis: Protesters are holding space outside the remnants of the Third Precinct, demanding all felony & misdemeanor charges be dropped from the Nov 4 protests where >600 were mass-arrested on I-94.
“We will never stand down until systematic racial injustice is taken care of.”
Multiple speakers point out how protesters’ #1A constitutional rights were violated when the mass arrest halted their Nov 4 protest.
George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s names are said aloud by the crowd.
54-yo white woman who grew up in the suburbs of Minnesota says she feels “so proud of this young generation who stood up to this bullshit.”
“All my friends are the same, and you are the fucking future.”
“No nazis, no KKK, no racist USA”
Protesters outside the burned Third Precinct in Minneapolis, protesting what they assert was a violation of their #1A right to free expression the night of Nov 4.
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The crowd played music, shot fireworks, spray-painted political statements onto boarded-up business fronts & erected barricades in the streets. [video] unicornriot.ninja/2020/election-…
After the first loop through Uptown, dozens of Minneapolis Police cars followed the mobile dance party, eventually surrounding it & arresting 14 people.
Video (5min 23sec) encapsulates the party and the crackdown. vimeo.com/476770817
The dancing cmty members, who chose not to organize the party on social media, said they were there irrespective of who won the election & were spotlighting they’d learned they could “only rely on each other.”
They were celebrating the community & power they had been building.
NEW: Father-of-seven, Calvin Horton Jr., was fatally shot by the owner of Cadillac Pawn on the 2nd night of the #GeorgeFloyd uprising.
Despite Minnesota's ‘duty to retreat‘ law, the perpetrator John Rieple, remains free and not charged in Horton's murder. unicornriot.ninja/2020/pawn-shop…
43-year-old Calvin Horton Jr. was protesting the death of #GeorgeFloyd by Minneapolis police, walking down East Lake Street.
When his section of the march reached Cadillac Pawn, owned by John Rieple, Rieple shot from inside his store, striking Horton who died on the sidewalk.
The shooting didn't prevent items in Rieple’s store from being taken.
Rieple was arrested on probable cause murder. He was released w no charges after 72 hrs in jail.
MN's ‘duty to retreat‘ law, makes it illegal for Rieple to have killed someone while defending his merchandise.
NEW: Protests took place across the #UnitedStates on Nov 4 specifically demanding that the country uphold democratic #elections and also generally demanding that the fight for social progress not waver, whatever the result.
“Voting Isn’t Enough” and “Jews Against Fascism” were 2 signs carried by protesters in #Boston.
Demands from protesters there included increased consultation with #Indigenous tribes, getting #police out of schools, and the need for #COVID hazard pay.
In addition to defending the vote in the #UnitedStates, the People’s Mandate protest in #Minneapolis demanded community control of the #police, a halt to racist attacks on immigrants, housing & economic relief for all in need, and #HealthCare for all.
We’re still live from I-94 in Minneapolis where legions of police, sheriffs, and state troopers, are now several hours into carrying out the mass arrest of an entire march of ~6-700 people
Police in Minneapolis have kettled upwards of a thousand people on the freeway, and have begun making arrests of trapped protesters. They’ve stated that everyone attending the protest is under arrest for unlawful assembly and public nuisance.
Protesters tonight were not given dispersal orders before being kettled and mass arrested.
Last night, a much smaller protest march in Minneapolis was also surrounded and mass arrested without warnings or a chance to leave.
Typical police procedure and training for crowd control calls for 3 dispersal orders before declaring an unlawful assembly at a protest. Minneapolis Police and Minnesota State Patrol appear to have departed from this norm lately, both tonight and last night.
BOSTON: Hundreds of people are gathered in Nubian Square (Roxbury, f.k.a. Dudley Sq). Crowd of several hundred ppl, many from orgs like @Boston_DSA, @sunrisemvmt, Socialist Alternative, XR flags, Resist Fascism. a lot of tables clipboards flyers, aimed at organizing
Boston: Speaker calls for police precincts to have individual liability insurance
Next speaker points out the mass actions at airports in 2018 and the huge march in Boston after Charlottesville