Posted on Jun 2, 2020
Four Extremist Groups Suspected of Involvement in Protest Violence
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I have to say, if there are these elements in Minneapolis, they are incognito - which is usually not their style. I have yet to spot a Hawaiian shirt - a hallmark of the Boogaloo Boys, much less lots of them. Standard white supremacists stick out in a crowd, too. As for Antifa, there's a possibility that a number of them are involved, although their standard black garb is the wardrobe of choice for nearly everyone out after dark, so I don't think you can be sure of them either. The anarchist crowd is more of a Portland/ Seattle phenomenon, where they are certainly present.
Interestingly, local officials here keep blaming "outside elements" but the arrest records do not bear this out as true. St Paul's mayor even claimed all of them arrested on Friday were - and then the local media put the lie to that (37 of 43 arrested were local residents).
I think the long and the short of this is that people want to assign blame on groups that they don't affiliate with, for obvious reasons. I also think the majority of the problem is not from "Accelerants", it is from exactly what it looks like - lawlessness combined with no enforcement = opportunity.
Interestingly, local officials here keep blaming "outside elements" but the arrest records do not bear this out as true. St Paul's mayor even claimed all of them arrested on Friday were - and then the local media put the lie to that (37 of 43 arrested were local residents).
I think the long and the short of this is that people want to assign blame on groups that they don't affiliate with, for obvious reasons. I also think the majority of the problem is not from "Accelerants", it is from exactly what it looks like - lawlessness combined with no enforcement = opportunity.
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Throw them all in jail. We don’t need that kind of shit from either side in this country.
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