. Some Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, initially tried to blame out-of-state far-right infiltrators for the unrest before walking back those statements.The Associated Press analyzed court records, employment histories, social media posts and other sources of information for 217 people arrested last weekend in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, two cities at the epicenter of the protests across the United States.
The president has tried to portray the protesters and looters with a broad brush as “radical-left, bad people,” ominously invoking the name “antifa,” an The AP obtained copies of daily confidential “Intelligence Notes” distributed this past week to local enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security that repeat, without citing evidence, that “organized violent opportunists — including suspected anarchist extremists — could increasingly perpetrate nationwide targeting of law enforcement and critical infrastructure.”
But social media posts warning that stacks of bricks have been left at protest sites in Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles have been Ortiz and another friend in the car with him were put in zip-tie restraints and forced to wait on a bus for hours before police took them to jail, where he would spend the weekend.
“Not only did I want to go to be an ally to black people, but I wanted to go to support my son,” Cook said. “Also, I was afraid to send him out by himself.” Rupert, who made an initial court appearance Friday, remains in federal custody. A federal public defender assigned to represent him did not respond to a voicemail message seeking comment.
Houska, who attended college and law school in the city, said she was with a group a couple blocks from where Floyd died when police told them they were breaking curfew. They replied they were going home, she said, and then the officers hit them with pepper spray and zip-tied their hands.Sierra West, 29, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she drove to Minneapolis with a friend because she is “so angry about what is happening” with police brutality and wanted to peacefully protest.
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Facts matter . Good job AP!
All your statements could be true. Arrests may not have anything to do with who is causing trouble
Same here in Pittsburgh, most of the looters and people breaking windows and getting arrested was from here
The goal of 'pro' protesters or 'real' domestic terrorist is to not get arrested. This media game of saying, 'look, numbers indicate a handful of non-locals arrested' is exactly like local/state/national government saying, 'look, low number of covid positives.'
The AP investigated? Are you kidding me? If anyone has an agenda that is opposite of independent and objective new reporting it's the AP.
Just like Barry did when he pretended to be prez. He called them thugs. I heard the AP was unbiased from a lib “friend”. 🙄She lied. No surprise.
Local Antifa wanna be thugs.
Don’t belive your eyes! All those folks dressed like ninjas and paying people to riot are ordinary folks EnemyOfThePeople
So they were just local thugs and criminals. Ok!
One does not need to be a member of antifascists movement to have empathy Unless 11 mns spent, no women pushed nietz
I will die on this hill: Unless the Auto Zone vandal/instigator/thug comes forward and rips his mask off like a Scooby Doo villain and reveals that he is in fact one of the leaders of BLM in disguise then this position is and always will be absolute garbage.
Meanwhile, members of various extreme right wing groups get caught with guns and bombs. Get caught inciting looting. Get caught harassing peaceful protesters.
Ok. Local thugs.
You disgraced yourself.
The commie press spreading more lies again.
Hey looting and rioting come to those prepared and local.
Covering for terrorists eh? Well played AP. LeftistLogic
So it just mostly young black men doing the looting?
Democrats = Complain about everything then try to blame others.
Fake news
It was those who was bribing , organizing ,and supplying weapons. Many was immediatly released with 5 felony charges.
We The People is the group. Been around since the late 1770’s. And we’re tired of police bullshit.
Cuz AP is FAKE NEWS
I'm anti-fascist. I thought that was a good thing.
'A said a subset of X was Y. B said a subset of X was Z. But *we* found a majority of X was Q'. You can take out the 'But', because you're not really refuting A or B.
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Trump is a professional liar...literally the ONLY thing he does well...period, end of discussion.
Pasty white wanna be revolutionaries from the suburbs and locals robbing everything then setting fire to it. Pretty obvious from the hundreds of hours of live video 🤷♂️
Watch This: from 2017, Chaziel Sunz shined the light on who pays for Antifa, Black Lives Matter, what the plan is of the Democratic Party using the groups.
There is evidence of police herding white terrorist groups to safety.
The left is protecting Antifa your fake news
🤦🏼♂️... this headline is being based on arrests.
All they had to do was get it started. Once it was lit, they took off.
When you don't want to see something......you don't
Thanks . Same thing was found in Columbus Ohio. Arrests almost entirely locals and mostly minor offenses:
Just jobless libs with nothing else to do.
He didn’t brand the protesters as radical leftist thugs He branded the looters and rioters (a much smaller group as radical leftist thugs- and that is likely true)
Great reporting AP, organizers are 'Stupid enough' to get arrested...
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Satire, I’m sure? Me or anyone under 25 could link you geniuses to dozens of antifa accounts that openly organized this week.
Really, you didn't see the video a woman on her front the Minnesota cops marching down the Street Screaming get the house, then cop screamed 'Lite'em UP!' Shot the woman with pepper balls?
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They don’t arrest cops.
For me, *arrest* figures leave room for doubt. That's because I'm not entirely confident that Minneapolis or DC police would *arrest* out-of-town white nationalists if they encountered them.
This just another version of a President who passes the buck. Easier to blame some group, whom people know little about, than to come to the realization that people are just pissed off, at him, at the system, at the rich, all of it.
They weren’t criminals, they were wonderful people that understood that we have a problem that seriously needs to be fixed.
Reporter: Hi, I'm with the AP. Can I get your opinion about what's going on? Citizen: Yeah, sure. Reporter: Thanks, and will you sign a release form? Citizen: Yeah, sure. Reporter: Ok, can you tell me what you do for a living? Citizen: Yes, I'm a Balloon Artist.
Thank you for digging. Dont stop. Intimately inspect the things that instill fear. The entire world is watching.
They were Antifa terrorists.
Authoritarians don’t get their hands dirty. They just scream at others to do it for them.
This fails to note that, in Minneapolis, the bulk of those arrests are for curfew violation.
As we have seen, almost anyone can get arrested for just being close to a protest. Cops aren't actually doing their jobs of arresting dangerous criminals.
Well, one thing we know about locals in big cities is that the majority of them are Democrats.
Okay now eliminate curfew violations and tell us who got arrested for actual crimes.
Local far left thugs then - they don't have to be from out of state
This would be skewed if police were biased on who they arrested.
Thugs riot, loot, and torch. Recycle and repeat.
But what groups were they?
Antifa is not a group, it's a movement against fascism...full stop. Be careful with your diction as you report during the age of misinformation.