With curfew 10 minutes away in Minneapolis, I wanted to take a look back

Last week in America: A video thread

NYPD slams protestor with car door while driving by

( @drivewendys: May 29, 2020)

Cop shoves woman to ground at Barclays.

“Now she’s in the ER after a serious seizure.”

( @whitney_hu: May 29, 2020)

NYPD gets rowdy

( @zachreports: May 29, 2020)

NYPD driving into a group of protestors

( @adambvary: May 30, 2020)

Aerial view of NYPD driving into protestors

( @adambvary: May 30, 2020)

NYPD pulls down mask of young man with hands up to pepper spray him

( @Sifill_LDF: May 30, 2020)

African-American Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty, Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin and Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce pepper sprayed by Columbus, Ohio police during Saturday protests

( @krobphoto: May 30, 2020)

Video of Beatty/Harding/Boyce mace incident

( @nbc4i: May 30, 2020)

More from Columbus protest — firing on peaceful protestors

( @MediocRae: May 30, 2020)

Denver cops fire tear gas like the 4th of July seven minutes after curfew

( @BySajaHindi: May 30, 2020)

SWAT unit in Salt Lake City knocks old man with cane to the ground on live TV

( @greg_doucette: May 30, 2020)

At Union Square, cop appears to toss white power sign and giggle about it with cop buddy

( @kikimurphy_: May 30, 2020)

Louisville plainclothes cops roll up to take water, destroy milk set up around square by protestors for protestors

When crowd approaches, their battalion buds with batons, shields and weapons step in to shield them

( @nataliealund: May 30, 2020)

Peaceful protest... not observed

( @MaliikObee: May 30, 2020)

More peaceful protest turned violent

( @MasterAtWorkINC: May 31, 2020)

Police macing and kicking a peaceful protestor in Erie

( @the7goonies: May 30, 2020)

In Minneapolis on Saturday night, MPD and National Guard yell “Light em up!” and fire paint canisters at folks sitting on their home porch

( @tkerssen: May 30, 2020)

Most protestors are ****NOT**** rioters — organizers step in to protect a Brooklyn Target

( @AndrewSolender: May 30, 2020)

Nashville

@NancyAFrench: “Every brick I saw thrown without exception was thrown by white people. This man was yelling at these white people who’d just put horse excrement on a cop car and broke out their windows. He said, ‘they’ll blame us!’”

Journalists were frequently targeted last week

In Louisville, photojournalist James Dobson and reporter Kaitlin Rust were fired on with pepper bullets on live TV

( @ChrisBishopL1C4: May 30, 2020)

Live on CNN, Minnesota police arrest Omar Jimenez -- a black reporter legally reporting on Minneapolis protests -- along with producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez

( @CNN: May 29, 2020)

In Minneapolis, MN state police in riot gear and SWAT team with assault rifles push reporter off empty street, threaten arrest during interview with Trio Plant Based restaurant owner Louis Hunter

( @UR_Ninja: May 30, 2020)

"Beat it."

"I'm a journalist, sir!"

"I don't care what you are. Beat it."

( @UR_Ninja: May 30, 2020)

Minnesota State Patrol fires tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range

( @mollyhf: May 30, 2020)

MN state patrol shoots WCCO photojournalist in the leg with a rubber bullet, arrests him

( @cjzero: May 30, 2020)

More targeting of journalists in Minneapolis, this one a Vice reporter

( @MichaelAdams317: May 30, 2020)

MPD throw the Vice reporter to the ground after he shouts press multiple times and raises his credentials in the air. He’s tossed to ground, held down, and peppered sprayed in the face.

( @MichaelAdams317: May 30, 2020)

Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter has window shot out by police as he’s trying to return home.

( @jaredgoyette: May 30, 2020)

Authorities didn’t even spare national treasure John Cusack, accosted here for having the audacity to film a burning car

The man gave us Con Air, for chrissakes

( @johncusack: May 30, 2020)

Setting up rioters???

( @iambrianjohns: May 30, 2020)

Cops as protestors — this one pretending to be with CNN

( @MaxBlumenthal: May 30, 2020)

The young chickenshit white kid who smashed windows at the College Football Hall of Fame — not even as a protest for Jason White winning the Heisman over Larry Fitzgerald or anything, but just to be a douche

( @mikeyman182: May 30, 2020)

For 24 hours, Twitter was ablaze with rumors that the man smashing the AutoZone windows in Minneapolis was an undercover SPPD cop

Turns out... (wait for it)....

( @javimorillo: May 27)

He and his bud may have been crisis actors instead????

Umbrella boy and pink shirt, now buds!

( @gunntwitt: May 29, 2020)

Hey it’s our friend pink shirt again!

Man's been all over town these past few days.

A moment of levity and unadulterated truth on CNN

( @TrisseanM: May 30, 2020)

Don Lemon: This is the difference between a rioter and a protester.

( @oliverdarcy: May 30, 2020)

Black organizers with a strong message to white protestors

( @freeyourmindkid: May 30, 2020)

And lest we forget — we can’t forget — most cops are legitimately good men and women who went into the profession to *protect and serve*

This Flint sheriff’s speech went viral

He dropped his baton and marched with protestors

ONE OF US

Strength, toughness, honor

This is what we want in police

Clone this man

(@ @EllieSharp2022: May 30, 2020)

A lieutenant reads the names of victims for protestors

ONE OF US

( @Pwoodreporter: May 30, 2020)

An officer ***removes(!)*** another officer’s knee from a protestor's neck during apprehension

(@ @_andreakaye: May 31, 2020)

A Jackson, TN cop gives out bottles of water and tells protestors to "please be careful crossing the street”

( @ProfesserBird: May 31, 2020)

One beautiful soul tries to bridge the gap between protestors and cops

( @KashJackson2018: May 31, 2020)

We may not have seen as many conversations like this reported in the media last week...

But they occurred and were reported in various parts of the country

Citizens and cops: Same team

( @_bellabliss: May 31, 2020)

There were so many beautiful images last week

This is the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis

(MNKellyO: May 29, 2020)