Listening to the St. Paul police scanner
Apparently they're robbing random people on the street
Car crash involving a pregnant woman, plus fire in a vacant field near the Target
Strike team taking rocks at Gregson University(?)
Faded black Trailblazer occupied by black males trying to break into Walgreens via drive thru window
Gunshots, shots have been fired.

Now eggs being thrown at squad cars
Shots exchanged between vehicles travelling at high rate of speed, 4 door Acura and a jacked up SUV
Female bleeding, sounds like attacked by black male
Some dude killed his mother and girlfriend (not sure if riot related)
Strike teams continuing to take bottles and rocks, calling for backup
Crowd of rioters moving into used car lot.

Another crowd is setting Furniture Barn on fire
Looting the Furniture Barn, too
Man with a handgun in his back pocket spotted driving a dirt bike
Stolen Chrysler 300 (figures)
30 rioters gathering in front of a restaurant (magic noodles I think), security on-site at the restaurant
Squad taking a lot of rocks at University and Hamlin
Squad seeking permission for use of gas
Now reports of rioters breaking into pawn shop
Strike team at LA Fitness moving to Furniture Barn
Black Jeep Commander with people armed with weapons "with lasers on them"
Black male with no shirt and a handgun shouting at people
Large crowd reported to still be gathered but cooperative
Sending extra units to Sherburne to deal with crowd
Group of 12 wearing helmets and carrying jugs headed north toward University Ave
GameStop and Foot Locker on Randolph being looted
Looters at Holiday gas station smashing in doors
Police taking bottles at Hamline and Charles
Sounds like fire at Furniture Barn failed to take, FD reported not seeing flames or smoke and left
Crowd gathering on the light rail platform next to Furniture Barn
Worried that LA Fitness will be reignited if strike team doesn't get there soon
Sounds like cops are very confused about what's going on
Black guy and white guy actively fighting
Calling for medics to Lafonde, driver took glass to the eye when a rock hit windshield
Crowd tried to attack tobacco store, owner fired a shotgun round into air, crowd diverted to TJ Maxx
Crowd gathering at intersection of Sherburne and Griggs
Guy in pickup truck either chasing or being chased by man with a rifle (hard to hear)
Kids "planning on doing something on the freeway"
Cops grouping up at Hamline and University, planning to push crowd to the east
Call for a garbage truck(?) to the bridge
Sounds like Walmart is well protected
Strike team at the discount tire taking rocks
Sending in backup to assist at discount tire
Uh oh, strike team at discount tire is evacing
Sending strike team to discount team with two 40mms
Natural gas smell at 590 University
Fire has just broken out at Griggs and University
Police preparing to push east from Pascal to clear southbound University
Crowd closing in on officers at discount tire, thought I heard something about pepperballs being deployed a couple of minutes ago
Gas (I think) approved
A fire in the alley by Uni and Snelling(?), they're not sure what's on fire
"Discount Tire, mask up mask up!"
Group of rioters moving northbound on Hamline
Gunshots fired at gas station on University
https://mobile.twitter.com/Alabamicus/status/1266177861104402432
Liquor store at Snelling and University
Pushing crowd north from the discount tire
Sounds like there's still some action near the Target
Troopers asking about where the biggest crowd is, is West of Sherburne and uni(?), sounds like fireworks being set off
Unit guarding fire at intersection of syndicate and uni
Sounds like most action is on east end of university
Routing FD units to the liquor store fire
Crowd is in intersection blocking it and throwing rocks at FD trying to respond
Crowd at Edmond and Hamline is mostly dispersed
Discount tire is clear
FD is now on scene dealing with the fire
Fire rigs at Sherburne and syndicate being pelted by rocks
People in alley near a garage on Sherburne trying to sneak up on cops(?)
Hard to hear report abt crowd at uni and Griggs, huge crowd noise in bckgrnd
Sounds like lots of action at uni and Griggs, cops going to try same plan (gas and pepperballs) that saved the discount tire
Rocks being used to break into another gas station
Cops taking a few rocks at uni and Griggs, but seem to be pushing crowd out
Vehicles following a FedEx truck to try to stop and loot it
Front doors at Walgreens smashed in
Sounds like cops are going to try to split up crowd that moved to Syndicate and Sherburne
Guy with Molotov cocktail
Sounds like cops are able to move more units around, maybe suggests they've got more sectors under control?
WHAT?? Did she say three vehicles with people holding machine guns??

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