Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Rioting and looting by Antifa/BlackLivesMatter spread across American cities last night, including:

Minneapolis/St. Paul, where over 150 buildings have been burned, looted or damaged. Including twin science fiction and mystery specialty stores Uncle Hugos and Uncle Edgar’s:

Uncle Hugo's Bookstore engulfed. I went to this place a couple times and the owner was kind and made good recommendations. RIP. ☹️ pic.twitter.com/OrHJNG5g1w

— eating food (@hilde_as) May 30, 2020

(There’s now a GoFundMe site set up.)

Fundraising off your city burning is not a good look. https://t.co/tNWowQThpt

— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) May 30, 2020

In Atlanta, the CNN building was heavily vandalized. Other businesses were vandalized and looted, police cars were set on fire and the College Football Hall of Fame looted. Rapper Killer Mike has some thoughts:

Killer Mike confronts CNN for stoking the fire that led to their Atlanta HQ being invaded and trashed:

“Stop spreading fear and anger everyday.” pic.twitter.com/xz3J1htul8

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 30, 2020

As does Cernovich:

CNN now calling them “violent protests.” What changed? pic.twitter.com/aKJ9vjmoGX

— Essential Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 30, 2020

Rioters shot and killed a Federal Protective Service officer in Oakland, California.

More riots in Antifa Ground Zero in Portland:

Fires have been started in the street in downtown Portland. This is a repeat of the antifa riots after Trump won election in 2016. #BlackLivesMatter #antifa #GeorgeFloyd

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 30, 2020

You are in bed with these antifa terrorists.https://t.co/w5dcBIyxuO

— Helot (@Helot_) May 30, 2020

Dallas wasn’t spared, with downtown and the club-filled Deep Ellum area attacked, at least one police car burned.

In Houston, damage appeared to be less severe, possibly because 200 people were arrested for trying to block a roadway. Some broken glass, but I’m not seeing reports of arson. As always, judiciously applied lawful force tends to nip rioting in the bud.

Rioters tried to rush a police station in Brooklyn.

Don’t believe for a second the laughable “white supremacists did this” talking point the left is trying to foist on the public:

I went thru the Hennepin Sheriff arrest log. Of the 25 arrested for rioting, only 3 were out of state. None of those 3 had supremacy leanings on social media. All hated Trump. One was a Bernie supporter. One posted on FB of going out to protest.

— NavyMojo (@NavyMojo) May 30, 2020

Some of these narratives right now being spouted by major media personalities are bananas. I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility some kind of White Supremacist agitators at the riots. But you have to be willfully blind to pretend Antifa's not there and causing problems.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 30, 2020

The question remains: What do hard-left and antifa/#BlackLivesMatters backers like George Soros hope to gain through backing such riots?

🚨🚨 There's only one reason there's protests at the Whitehouse tonight & other cities in America & it has nothing to do with George Floyd or the #Minneapolisprotests. It's because George Soros paid & sent them there. Retweet if you agree this is an old story. INVESTIGATE THAT pic.twitter.com/Hkfw948DwA

— BRIAN FRASER (@bfraser747) May 30, 2020

I’ll try to examine possible answers to that question tomorrow.

Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, antifa, California, Crime, Dallas, George Soros, Georgia, Houston, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oakland, Oregon, Portland, riot, Social Justice Warriors, Texas

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