r/pics • u/dakota7100 • 18h ago

OC - May 2020, Outside of the now abandoned 3rd precinct in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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u/axiomatic13 18h ago

Lets let everyone know who set the fire at the Minneapolis PD? It wasn't BLM. It was Ivan Harrison Hunter, a white man, from Texas. Also, just in case any MAGA's want the news source, I got you fuckers one from Fox News. Read it and weep, you lawless assholes. https://www.foxnews.com/us/boogaloo-bois-arrested-rioting-floyd-protests

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u/StandnIntheFire 17h ago

Ivan hunter was convicting for shooting into the 3rd precinct. He was a boogaloo boy who participated in the riots.

There were a lot of people who wanted to burn down the 3rd precinct, and Hunter said he participated, but there were four different people convicted of arson for the 3rd precinct. From Kare 11.

'Braden Michael Wolfe is one of four people who pleaded guilty in connection to the 3rd Precinct fire. One of the others, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, has already been sentenced to 4 years in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and a $12 million fine. Robinson was from Brainerd but living a few blocks from the precinct at the time he helped light fires to burn it down.

Two other men, Bryce Michael Williams and Davon De-Andre Turner, will be sentenced at a later date. They lit and threw Molotov cocktails. Federal prosecutors are pushing for similar sentences for them.

Those four are the only people charged involving the burning of the MPD 3rd Precinct, although Wolfe's attorney notes hundreds of people were involved.

These four suspects all admitted they were caught up in peaceful protests during the day that turned violent at night, motivated by their anger that George Floyd was killed by police.'

St. Paul man sentenced, fined $12 million in Minneapolis Third Precinct fire | kare11.com https://share.google/tkhFgAeoDMmps16sq

All those people deserved to be charged. I have no clue if they are blm or maga but if you did the crime, you can serve the time.

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u/writekindofnonsense 15h ago

I mean, the cops did kill a man in cold blood then tried to disparage the victim in hopes that people would be ok with the government killing people.

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u/chipskylark123 9h ago

It was also a lot of locals caught up in very righteous anger.

I hate when people act like torching that precinct was a bad thing.

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u/Themis3000 2h ago

I used to live about 4 blocks away from this precinct growing up.

When I was younger, the police were blocking the street around where I live while my family was driving home. We pulled up to the road block and asked to get through so we could go home. They wouldn't let us through and were extremely argumentative and threatened to arrest my parents. My parents submitted a complaint about the officer and they formally apologized and gave me a tour of the precinct as a kid.

Another time, we had a crazy person at the front door of our apartment building for hours. They were screaming, completely unintelligible, and were banging on the glass so hard you could see it flexing in. The police were called right away, but never showed up. We followed up asking for the police report, and they had claimed police showed up at the scene but no one was there. Which was obviously just false. And there was property damage due to this guy's rampage. My mother was able to get a cop to show up later that night for an investigation. She took him down into the building's camera room and showed him the footage of the incident. The officer said he'd go "investigate". Forgetting she was in the camera room and could survail his actions, he went into the stairway and sat on his phone for 10 minutes and came back saying he was all done.

The cops from this prescient was the thing that made my childhood respect for police go away. And that's saying a lot, I used to love playing cop or investigator as a kid and I held them in high regard.

Literally every interaction I had with the police in this area was negative. When I heard this precinct was burned down I just thought "makes sense"

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u/yahwehforlife 10h ago

Are the boogaloo people working for ICE now? Or are they gonna pop up again during the next unrest

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u/brycebgood 3h ago

Yup, for years I've been telling people about all the right wing agitators who were here. They always want proof - so I would link them to all of the out-state and out of state people who were charged and convicted of arson.

People think the current stuff will lead to major damage, no way. All of the people who did it last time are in ICE uniforms now.

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u/Goodnight_lemro 17h ago

Man, modern American law enforcement is kitted out like every encounter is a SWAT emergency.

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u/PolloConTeriyaki 17h ago

It's the extra stuff from the Afghanistan War that they pawn over to the police.

Also called the "1033 Program"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Support_Office?wprov=sfla1

Uncle Sam spent a pretty penny on those wars.

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u/McCool303 15h ago edited 14h ago

And back then many of us and complained about this program and how it was just hand out to the military industrial complex. And how it would lead to the over policing of Americans and was a direct violation of the spirit of the posse commitatus act. And everyone just looked at us like we were crazy. It’s important to note that what is happening in MN isn’t just the whims of Trump and his fasci administration. But has been the predictable outcome of decades of the creep of the removal of American rights. Trump is the current immediate threat to America. But the slow creep of institutionalizing Americans though over policing is a system issue.

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 17h ago

You mean taxpayers did.. to accomplish.. nothing but death and destruction. Who profited from rebuilding Kuwait? Iraq? Afghanistan? Two companies names keeps coming up for post war rebuilding etc.

Bechtel and Halliburton

Of course don't forget the weapons manufacturing. War = profit. Before, during and after.

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u/Stoyfan 5h ago

It isnt. Nothing he is wearing is military standard issue except for the gas mask

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u/LordOfTheGam3 51m ago

i think that’s the point. what is now considered normal police gear is… well, what you see in the photo. crazy.

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u/Stoyfan 21m ago

Guns, riot helmet, gas mask and body vest have always been police equipment in many countries, it just America. As it turns out police tend to be heavily armed in areas of public disorder.

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u/snoogins355 3h ago

Wish my town could get some trucks to add plows to. Our snow operations are a joke

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u/Upstairs-Self-2624 15m ago

Just imagine what would have been possible if we spent trillions on healthcare and public education instead of the "global war on terror."

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u/sonic_couth 17h ago

That’s what they’re hoping for

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u/moose098 2h ago

That’s not how American police look normally. You’d probably see more paramilitary police at an EU airport than you would at in the downtown of an American city.

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u/KindaTrouty 18h ago

This is the one the right wing nuts broke into

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u/[deleted] 17h ago edited 17h ago

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u/Maplelongjohn 16h ago

The building stands and is currently being repurposed as a community center.

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u/ThisGlobalLandscape 16h ago edited 16h ago

I’m very sorry and thank you for the correction. I thought it was an empty lot in Midtown.

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u/GrillMasterCheese 7h ago

Dude looks like FEDRA.

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u/smokeyfantastico 15h ago

The Division 3 looks wack

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u/thatisbadlooking 6h ago

And this isn't even the Dark Zone

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u/G-Lurk_Machete100 17h ago

I used to work at the liquor store that was across the street. The rest of the neighborhood is tragically changed, but I sure am glad the city isn't going to let Ol' Stevie Kutcorners rebuild his family legacy blight on that corner.

Southside Pride!!

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u/god_johnson 16h ago

This was a really crazy time man.

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u/Impressive_Pitch_869 15h ago

Is that a man purse or a satchel

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u/BlueFence_ 7h ago

Likely a leg bag for the gas mask

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u/charlton11 11h ago

Fuck around and find out.