The half-built building across from Target is ablaze. "Be careful in that building," someone yells after a group of people that just went inside, "that's more than just wood burning in there."
Scanner: “3rd Precinct has been overrun. Evacuating 3rd Precinct.” From the sounds of it, all officers are being evacuated from the police station at the main protest site.
A 911 dispatcher watching real-time footage of George Floyd's arrest was so alarmed by police officers' actions that she called a supervisor, who did not immediately respond to the scene, according to a newly recording of their phone conversation.
And just like that, the MPD has surrendered its 3rd Precinct police station to protesters: “Airing information citywide, the 3rd Precinct has been compromised.”
Police say they have unmasked "Umbrella Man" as a suspected white supremacist who sought to incite racial tension by smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests.
Long before former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck, the 3rd Precinct in south Minneapolis had a reputation for being home to “cowboy” police officers who played by their own rules.
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A woman pacing outside a nearby hospital says she was waiting on her 23-year-old daughter, who she says was undergoing a CAT scan; the daughter was shot twice, with one bullet tearing into her leg and striking her femur and the other grazing her arm.
The police union is putting out a call for retired officers to help guard polling sites in "problem" areas across Minneapolis, at the behest of an attorney for the Trump campaign, who said the officers would be acting as "our eyes and ears in the field.”
Audio of the phone conversation between the unidentified police supervisor and dispatcher, who starts off by saying "you can call me a snitch if you want to but:"
Amidst all this, police are being called to investigate a possible kidnapping from the parking lot across the street from their burning station; a screaming woman was said to have been forcibly put into a vehicle that then sped away, according to scanner traffic.
Some North residents have banded together to protect the area from bad actors, after several businesses along W. Broadway burned down the other night under mysterious circumstances. Folks are sitting in chairs every few hundred feet on Broadway, the area’s main commercial drag.
Minneapolis police will no longer ticket drivers for busted taillights and other equipment violations, instead handing out vouchers to pay for repairs — amid criticism that the practice disproportionately impacts minorities and the poor.
This is one of the city’s most violent shootings in recent memory.
-7 shot outside "200 Bar" earlier this month:
-9 shot at 400 Soundbar nightclub: -8 shot at a vigil over North
Unicorn Riot's immersive, on-the-ground coverage of the unrest following George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police brought the nonprofit a surge of attention.
There's a BP gas station at 36th/Lyndale that's owned by Lonnie McQuirter; a few nights ago, he noticed people were hanging out, guarding the boarded up station. That's community, he says, adding it reminded him of his friend, Tyrone Williams, a prominent activist who was slain.
Hours after Sunday's shooting, a Hoban Korean BBQ employee recalled hearing gunshots coming from up the block, closer to the McDonald’s. He looked up to see a man firing a handgun at an unspecified target as bystanders ran for cover. Dozens of shell casings littered the street.
The resurrected AIM patrols were credited with saving 20+ buildings during the rioting; and when they caught four teens trying to break into a liquor store, instead of calling the police they contacted the boys’ parents in Wisconsin to come pick them up:
A similar scene played out along E. Franklin Avenue, where members of American Indian Movement, AIM, said they felt the need to protect their neighborhoods. Austin Owen explains:
Fireworks going off every few seconds, as people haul wood planks and other materials from a nearby construction site for a makeshift barrier along Minnehaha, before it hits Lake.
Priority 1 calls piling up: in the past few minutes, a gunshot victim walked into HCMC, squads were dispatched to break up fights between looters and business owners near N. 42nd/Lyndale, and a group armed with guns and knives is trying to burglarize a corner store at 19th/3rd.
So far, little has come out about Chauvin’s time with the department. But court records and news accounts show that he has been involved in at least three police-involved shootings over his MPD: Wayne Reyes in 2006, and Leroy Martinez and Ira Latrell Toles, both in 2011.
At least 7 Minneapolis police officers have resigned from the department since widespread unrest began over the death of George Floyd last month, and more than half a dozen are in the process of leaving, officials say.
A Minneapolis cop who reportedly served as an anonymous source for a GQ magazine article criticizing the MPD's "toxic culture" has received a letter of reprimand for her comments, according to disciplinary records.
North Side officers are being instructed to stop cars without license plates and identify the driver, after receiving numerous complaints throughout the day about suspicious vehicles crushing the area.
Protesters wasted no time in erecting new blockades at George Floyd Square after the city of Minneapolis and volunteers tried to reopen the intersection to traffic.
14/ Freeman explained that Chauvin was the first charged in
#GeorgeFloyd
's death because "we felt it was important to focus on the most dangerous perpetrator. I must say this case has moved with extraordinary speed."
Packed house at the North-Hopkins game; North players are wearing warmup shirts honoring 15-year-old Deshaun Hill, who was gunned down at a bus stop a few blocks away from here earlier this week.
A police spox confirmed a shooting at East Phillips Park and confirmed that the 911 caller indicated the shooter was a "white supremacist." Police also said that there were no squads immediately available to respond to the shooting, with 58 911 calls in pending.
A jury has found now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him in the death of George Floyd last May: Murder-3 and Manslaughter-2, and Murder-2.
A tense exchange during the questioning of Donald Williams, a key witness in the Derek Chauvin trial, prompted an uproar on social media, where some accusing the defense of playing on a racist trope of "an angry Black man" as a way to discredit Williams.
There are 40 or so people out here; some yelling, but peaceful. One cop walks over to protesters, and just ask. He also gave them his number, while someone recorded the exchange on Facebook Live. Now his phone is ringing off the hook.
The woman who posted this says it was the Whittier neighborhood. A police spokesman says it’s not MPD. From the uniforms it appears to be State Patrol, but no confirmation yet.
For a man who complains so frequently about a lack of community trust and support for the police department, Bob Kroll remains shockingly indifferent to his role in undermining that trust and support.
Scanner: A 911 caller reported seeing 3-4 young white males in ski masks dumping what appears to be gasoline behind buildings at Lake and Bloomington. No further details.
#BREAKING
: Minneapolis Public Schools votes unanimously to terminate its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department, in response to the death of
#GeorgeFloyd
.
A preliminary investigation shows that police shot and killed a man during a felony traffic stop in south Minneapolis, according to two sources familiar with the incident. Still unclear how many rounds were fired or if police fired first. Story coming.
There’s a heavy police presence at 36th/Cedar in south Minneapolis; early indications are that officers shot someone, though MPD hasn’t released anything official. Details are slim, for now.
The National Guard is at Lake and 21st, working traffic, while fire crews do overhaul on a large fire at a nearby strip mall; somewhere, a transformer blew, plunging the neighborhood into darkness.
As the fires started getting closer, pastors and gang members banded together to protect So Low Grocery, one of the few North aside markets that hadn’t closed out of fear of the pandemic or looting. “Our sole purpose was to make sure our people can eat.”
North Side civilian patrols are back at it, but tonight there were reports of suspicious vehicles driving around, shooting. Lisa Neal-Delgado, a former Washington D.C. cop turned community organizer, says bad actors are getting bolder.
The FBI has joined the investigation of an in-custody death of a man on Minneapolis' South Side Monday evening, who was seen in a bystander video saying he couldn't breathe as police held him down.
According to scanner traffic, state troopers have been deployed to the area, to relieve frontline Minneapolis officers. Officers from St. Paul are also here.
Much has happened in the last hour. The protest splintered into several groups. Many are still demonstrating near the precinct, but their numbers are dwindling. A construction site and (possibly) the Cub Foods are ablaze. St. Paul police and State Patrol have been deployed.
Revelations about Derek Chauvin's history of questionable decision-making have raised ???s about why he was allowed to serve as a training officer.
Cops can be removed as trainers, but they very rarely are; MPD records show only 4 cases from ‘10-‘19.