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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: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/trumps-campaign-was-always-going-to-be-about-racism-minnesota-just-became-the-epicenter/
First, how Trump always planned to make MN a keystone to a campaign built on fanning racial animosity, by @timothypmurphy: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/trumps-campaign-was-always-going-to-be-about-racism-minnesota-just-became-the-epicenter/
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: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/bob-kroll-minneapolis-warrior-police-training/
3/ Derek Chauvin and 92% of the MPD (!!!) don't live in the neighborhoods they police or ANY part of Minneapolis: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/the-officer-who-arrested-george-floyd-doesnt-live-in-minneapolis/
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: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/local-target-store-was-no-angel/
6/ Like many black communities the one George Floyd was killed in was already reeling from COVID, and related job loses: https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/05/minneapolis-coronavirus-impact-floyd-protest/
