I'm seriously concerned about how readily people are taking up this Boogaloo Boi federal charges story about the Minneapolis 3rd Precinct burning down as like.... thee narrative of May 28th.
How short are our memories that we already are forgetting what happened on May 28th? Who was in the streets? Who were the people resisting militarized occupation while police protected their own property?

There is power in the true, nuanced, messy narrative.
And, while you might not be intending to strip the power of the actors in this story, you are. It was Black folks, friends of Floyd, youth, queer folks, immigrants, Native folks, brown folks, trans folks, and accomplices that created a context where a precinct could be burned.
This narrative pushed by Governor Walz, Jacob Frey, and the Star Tribune is EFFECTIVE at dispelling and diffuse collective power built in the streets. It's by design; don't be tricked by it.
Furthermore, the National Guard has been activated repeatedly over the summer and as recently as yesterday. Frey is not asking for the military over fear about a handful of wanna-be militiamen. Boogaloo Bois don't scare the status quo. The people rising collectively do.
I don't know, y'all. We each have to do our reckoning with what we make of property destruction, riots, and burning buildings.

But what we can't do is be on the side of the power of protest AND willfully give our power away by endorsing state narratives.
Linking my live-tweet of May 28th to the bottom of this thread. https://twitter.com/colocha_rachel/status/1319710439354388480?s=20
And, as this story picks up fucking national coverage, it will be even harder to dispel uninformed and incomplete narratives.
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