NEW: Around 50 people marched through Uptown #Minneapolis during a mobile dance party on #ElectionNight

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.
Some of the slogans spray painted on boarded-up business windows in Uptown were “Fuck 12”, “Dead Prez”, “Stop Line 3”, “Justice 4 Floyd”, “ACAB”, and “Fanon lives”.
Responding police forces followed the dance party for blocks until it reached Bryant Square Park.

Before people had the chance to disperse, the police kettled the march.

Many people escaped the kettle but several were violently tackled and arrested by Minneapolis Police.
After the police jumped out of their cars, they ran through the park yelling at everybody before tackling them, “get the fuck on the ground!"

No dispersal order was given, nor were any commands given despite mainstream outlets reporting that protesters disobeyed police orders.
SWAT officers from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office joined the Minneapolis Police forces for their crackdown operation on the mobile dance party.
Those arrested were jailed on probable cause riot charges.

All 14 were released, with one person having been charged with fourth-degree assault and obstructing the legal process.

The rest have not been cited with any charges as of yet. unicornriot.ninja/2020/election-…
Join us & the 50+ that are waiting at the moment for the YouTube premiere of Police Crash Election Night 2020 Mobile Dance Party in Minneapolis at 10pm Central (17min from now).

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Protesters tonight were not given dispersal orders before being kettled and mass arrested.

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