Thread by @ClaraJeffery, 1/Some important stories we've reported on Minneapolis and the forces behind what's [...]

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/

It’s only going to get worse.

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/

The union's resistance to reform is coming under renewed scrutiny after the killing of George Floyd.

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/

Here's why that matters.

4/ It's also a huge problem that a lot of the protestors doing the most destruction have no ties to those communities either.

Black Americans don't owe chain stores anything.

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/

The pandemic's disproportionate impact adds to the pain.

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