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Old 07-28-2020, 11:08 AM
 
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https://www.startribune.com/police-u...ing/571932272/

A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests, earning him the moniker “Umbrella Man,” is suspected to be a member of the Hell’s Angels biker gang seeking to incite racial tension in a demonstration that until then had been peaceful, police said.

A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the man’s actions at the AutoZone on East Lake Street set off a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The building was later burned to the ground.


Wow.

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Old 07-28-2020, 11:31 AM
 
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"suspected of being"



No arrest? No interrogation?

OK.

Many of us cannot see your paywalled article.
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Old 07-28-2020, 11:51 AM
 
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"suspected of being"



No arrest? No interrogation?

OK.

Many of us cannot see your paywalled article.
The report came from the police, so there is probably pretty strong evidence supporting it. I also find it curious that the man still hasn’t been identified and taken into custody. This tale could have made for a good episode of Sons of Anarchy.
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Old 07-28-2020, 12:48 PM
 
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I guess a biker is as close as they can get to Timmy Walz’s elusive white supremacists. Lol.
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Old 07-28-2020, 12:53 PM
 
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I guess a biker is as close as they can get to Timmy Walz’s elusive white supremacists. Lol.
Once he has been charged and officially identified as a white supremacist will you be willing to admit that Walz was right?
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Old 07-28-2020, 01:20 PM
 
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The report came from the police, so there is probably pretty strong evidence supporting it. I also find it curious that the man still hasn’t been identified and taken into custody.
Well I hope they get him regardless of his motivations, and give it to him hard. Some azzhole actively trying to inflame racial tensions (if that was indeed his intent) needs to cool his heels in prison with a bunch of big hard black dudes, IMO. If that wasn't his motivation, prison is still a good place for an anarchist idiot.


I'm not buying the StarTrib's reporting that "the man’s actions at the AutoZone on East Lake Street set off a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting." though. There is no way to actually know that. The fire that was lit in that building after he ran off received more attention than the windows breaking.

That sounds like the red StarTrib embellishing to give cover to Gov Walz's weaksauce bleatings about "outside white nationalists" when the riots began, more than fact based hard nosed reporting.


MPD, please catch this guy before you get defunded and the social workers have to take over.



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This tale could have made for a good episode of Sons of Anarchy.


Despite Ron Perlman and Katie Sagal, I just couldn't really warm to that series, although I did stick with it for a while. But you are right, this story line would have fit in. Law and Order used to do that, write real events into the episodes quite often. I thought it kept the show more interesting.
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Old 07-28-2020, 01:22 PM
 
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Once he has been charged and officially identified as a white supremacist will you be willing to admit that Walz was right?
I’ve never denied that there were all sorts of misfits involved, mainly anarchists but also some who advocate white supremacy. Will you admit that antifa has been active in the Minneapolis riots?

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Old 07-28-2020, 01:25 PM
 
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Umbrella Man had an interesting companion while he went around stirring up racial unrest. Who is Pizza Guy and are the police looking for him, too? Seems like he could identify Umbrella Man.

https://twitter.com/jimmyknutson/sta...163053570?s=21
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Old 07-28-2020, 01:26 PM
 
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https://www.startribune.com/police-u...ing/571932272/

A masked man who was seen in a viral video smashing the windows of a south Minneapolis auto parts store during the George Floyd protests, earning him the moniker “Umbrella Man,” is suspected to be a member of the Hell’s Angels biker gang seeking to incite racial tension in a demonstration that until then had been peaceful, police said.

A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the man’s actions at the AutoZone on East Lake Street set off a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The building was later burned to the ground.


Wow.
Don't you know that it was ALL white supremacist-caused. Including the blacks, Latinos and Palestinians that have been charged and/or being sought for questioning. White supremacists all of them.
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Old 07-28-2020, 01:27 PM
 
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I guess a biker is as close as they can get to Timmy Walz’s elusive white supremacists. Lol.
Elusive indeed, lol.

There is rumor now of one. Who has not yet been arrested or interrogated. But the StarTrib reports this one is a biker. And you know how they can be.

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