1/Some important stories we& #39;ve reported on Minneapolis and the forces behind what& #39;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/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

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/">https://www.motherjones.com/crime-jus...

3/ Derek Chauvin and 92% of the MPD (!!!) don& #39;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/">https://www.motherjones.com/crime-jus...

4/ It& #39;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/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

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/">https://www.motherjones.com/coronavir...