Cop Kneels On Black Man's Neck As He Screams, "I Can't Breathe!" Murderer and Inmate Derek Chauven Was Shanked
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This is the cop who pulled the mask down and sprayed a womans face.
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Ex-Philadelphia Cop Charged With Assault For Pepper-Spraying Kneeling Protesters
Richard Paul Nicoletti was fired after he was filmed removing one protester’s goggles before spraying her in the face.
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look at the comments
What else do you expect from narcissistic non empathetic ass ppl
This is the cop who pulled the mask down and sprayed a womans face.
Ex-Philadelphia Cop Charged With Assault For Pepper-Spraying Kneeling Protesters
Richard Paul Nicoletti was fired after he was filmed removing one protester’s goggles before spraying her in the face.
Good. This wasn't about crowd control, this was a chance to live out a sadistic fantasy of hurting innocent people.
I see,Mike Ditka went on another racist tirade again....
Mfkr don't even know he got CTE...he just needs to sit his old ass down somewhere
What's the scoop on the garret foster killing?
BLM protester open carrying and shot by someone who drove into the protesters.
BLM protester open carrying and shot by someone who drove into the protesters.
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I'm ambivalent about such scenes. On one hand, it doesn't get any more peaceful than just dancing in the streets; on the other hand, it doesn't look to be taken any less seriously than a crowd dancing in the streets.
Guess who kicked off the riots in Minneapolis, when everyone was peacefully protesting...umbrella man.
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Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
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Guess who kicked off the riots in Minneapolis, when everyone was peacefully protesting...umbrella man.
Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
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Police: 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.
By Libor Jany Star Tribune
JULY 28, 2020 — 4:47PM
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A still from a video shows a man with an umbrella and gas mask breaking windows at the AutoZone on Lake Street during protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. (Twitter/Javier Morillo)
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 of ties with a white supremacist group and sought to incite racial tension, police said.
A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the act of vandalism at the AutoZone on East Lake Street helped spark a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The store was among dozens of buildings across the city that burned to the ground in the days that followed.
"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Sgt. Erika Christensen wrote in a search warrant affidavit filed in court this week. "Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful. The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual's sole aim was to incite violence."
Police identified "Umbrella Man" thanks to a tip that came via email last week, Christensen said.
The Star Tribune could not independently verify the police account, which has so far only surfaced in the search warrant, and isn't naming the man because so far he has not been charged with a crime. Spokespeople for the Minneapolis Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which is also involved in the investigation, declined to comment on Tuesday.
Floyd's death under the knee of a since-fired Minneapolis police officer set off protests that spread around the world and stirred a widespread reckoning over racial injustice. The former officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, and three of his colleagues who were also at the scene, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, have been charged with aiding and abetting Chauvin.
At least two people died in the subsequent riots, which eventually spread as far as north Minneapolis and South St. Paul, and caused an estimated $500 million in damage. Authorities have since charged a handful of people with arson-related crimes.
A widely-shared livestream video from May 27 — two days after Floyd's death — showed the man walking casually along the front of the former site of Auto Zone store, at E. Lake Street and Minnehaha, breaking out its windows with a 4-pound sledgehammer, prompting some protesters to confront him and demand that he stop.
One protester in particular, seen in the video wearing a pink shirt and carrying a pizza box, followed "Umbrella Man" around the building to the rear, where the two men got into a heated exchange. Before that, police say, the man, clad in black head-to-toe and carrying a black umbrella, had spray painted "free (expletive) for everyone zone" on the double front doors.
At the time, activists seized on the footage as proof that outside "provocateurs" were trying to derail what had been a mostly peaceful demonstration. But others on social media pointed out that at least some looting had gone on before the video surfaced.
Christensen wrote in the affidavit that she watched "innumerable hours" of videos on social media platforms like Tik Tok, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube to try to identify "Umbrella Man," to no avail. Investigators finally caught a break when a tipster e-mailed the MPD identifying the man as a member of the Hell's Angels biker gang who "wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors," she wrote.
Police have also connected the 32-year-old man to a widely-publicized incident in Stillwater late last month, in which a Muslim woman was confronted by a group of men wearing white supremacist garb.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the man was also an associate of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a small white supremacist prison and street gang based primarily in Minnesota and Kentucky. Several of its members were also present at the Stillwater incident.
The AutoZone in question was across the street from the shuttered Third Precinct police station, the epicenter of the first few nights of the protests. After someone started a fire at the store, firefighters worked to douse the flames, knocking down the majority of them. But within a matter of hours, the store was ablaze again, as was a half-built affordable housing development that caught fire, sending flames more than a hundred feet into the air.
Andy Shoemaker, a former St. Paul police officer who has investigated criminal motorcycle gangs, said the Aryan Cowboys are a relatively new group with loyalties to the Hells Angels, who operate across the state.
"They're another group that's basically a farm system, a minor league for the Hells Angels," he said, adding the Angels occasionally recruit members from some of these offshoot clubs.
The weeks that followed Floyd's death brought dozens of reports of racially motivated assaults against ethnic minorities and minority-owned businesses.
Some stories have since been debunked, like one persistent report on social media in the days after Floyd's death suggesting a group of white supremacists had reserved a block of rooms at a Fridley hotel. Local police said their investigation determined the rumor was likely started by a hotel employee.
Leaked intelligence briefings show that federal authorities were monitoring the movements and online activity of white nationalists and other extremist groups that descended on the city during the riots. The president of the Hells Angels summoned 75 members of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood to the help protect the club's headquarters in north Minneapolis, according to an intelligence memo, which surfaced earlier this year as part of massive trove of leaked law enforcement documents dubbed "Blue Leaks." A club member later posted a warning to protesters on Facebook saying that while the Angels agreed with the anti-law enforcement message, but that any protests that reached the clubhouse or "any of our neighborhoods" would be "met with a very unfriendly welcome party"
Another leaked memo suggested that local biker gangs were taking advantage of the unrest to step up their drug trafficking in the Metro area, and that bikers "associated with white racially motivated violent extremists" had discussed inciting riots while posing as members of the anti-fascist group Antifa. It wasn't immediately clear from the leaked materials whether any of these threats materialized.
After the protests began, footage of "Umbrella Man" roared around social media, prompting a flurry of speculation about the man's identity. One persistent rumor argued "Umbrella Man" was an undercover St. Paul police officer seeking to incite violence, a claim apparently based on a tweet citing information from a woman who claimed to have once been married to the officer.
In response, St. Paul police released a series of time-stamped surveillance videos showing that the officer was in St. Paul at the time of the incident and police Chief Todd Axtell released a statement scolding social media users for spreading misinformation that could "jeopardize the officer's reputation and safety and chip away at the trust this police department has worked so hard to build with its community."
CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNE
Sandra King, 70, waited for her granddaughter near the remains of AutoZone across from the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct.
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Justin Terrell, executive director of the Council for Minnesotans of African American Heritage, said that conversations around Floyd's death and the ensuing riots are important, but they often fail to account for the persistence of structural racism.
"I think at the end of the day, we need to start dealing with those issues, because I think this Umbrella Man, he is a rotten piece of fruit at the farthest branch of the tree, (but) we've gotta get to the roots," Terrell said. "I think we have to do the work to get there, which America has never done, and Minnesota sure hasn't."
Staff writer Chao Xiong contributed to this report.
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Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.
By Libor Jany Star Tribune
JULY 28, 2020 — 4:47PM
TWITTER/JAVIER MORILLO
A still from a video shows a man with an umbrella and gas mask breaking windows at the AutoZone on Lake Street during protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. (Twitter/Javier Morillo)
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 of ties with a white supremacist group and sought to incite racial tension, police said.
A Minneapolis police arson investigator said the act of vandalism at the AutoZone on East Lake Street helped spark a chain reaction that led to days of looting and rioting. The store was among dozens of buildings across the city that burned to the ground in the days that followed.
"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Sgt. Erika Christensen wrote in a search warrant affidavit filed in court this week. "Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful. The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual's sole aim was to incite violence."
Police identified "Umbrella Man" thanks to a tip that came via email last week, Christensen said.
The Star Tribune could not independently verify the police account, which has so far only surfaced in the search warrant, and isn't naming the man because so far he has not been charged with a crime. Spokespeople for the Minneapolis Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which is also involved in the investigation, declined to comment on Tuesday.
Floyd's death under the knee of a since-fired Minneapolis police officer set off protests that spread around the world and stirred a widespread reckoning over racial injustice. The former officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, and three of his colleagues who were also at the scene, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, have been charged with aiding and abetting Chauvin.
At least two people died in the subsequent riots, which eventually spread as far as north Minneapolis and South St. Paul, and caused an estimated $500 million in damage. Authorities have since charged a handful of people with arson-related crimes.
A widely-shared livestream video from May 27 — two days after Floyd's death — showed the man walking casually along the front of the former site of Auto Zone store, at E. Lake Street and Minnehaha, breaking out its windows with a 4-pound sledgehammer, prompting some protesters to confront him and demand that he stop.
One protester in particular, seen in the video wearing a pink shirt and carrying a pizza box, followed "Umbrella Man" around the building to the rear, where the two men got into a heated exchange. Before that, police say, the man, clad in black head-to-toe and carrying a black umbrella, had spray painted "free (expletive) for everyone zone" on the double front doors.
At the time, activists seized on the footage as proof that outside "provocateurs" were trying to derail what had been a mostly peaceful demonstration. But others on social media pointed out that at least some looting had gone on before the video surfaced.
Christensen wrote in the affidavit that she watched "innumerable hours" of videos on social media platforms like Tik Tok, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube to try to identify "Umbrella Man," to no avail. Investigators finally caught a break when a tipster e-mailed the MPD identifying the man as a member of the Hell's Angels biker gang who "wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors," she wrote.
Police have also connected the 32-year-old man to a widely-publicized incident in Stillwater late last month, in which a Muslim woman was confronted by a group of men wearing white supremacist garb.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the man was also an associate of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a small white supremacist prison and street gang based primarily in Minnesota and Kentucky. Several of its members were also present at the Stillwater incident.
The AutoZone in question was across the street from the shuttered Third Precinct police station, the epicenter of the first few nights of the protests. After someone started a fire at the store, firefighters worked to douse the flames, knocking down the majority of them. But within a matter of hours, the store was ablaze again, as was a half-built affordable housing development that caught fire, sending flames more than a hundred feet into the air.
Andy Shoemaker, a former St. Paul police officer who has investigated criminal motorcycle gangs, said the Aryan Cowboys are a relatively new group with loyalties to the Hells Angels, who operate across the state.
"They're another group that's basically a farm system, a minor league for the Hells Angels," he said, adding the Angels occasionally recruit members from some of these offshoot clubs.
The weeks that followed Floyd's death brought dozens of reports of racially motivated assaults against ethnic minorities and minority-owned businesses.
Some stories have since been debunked, like one persistent report on social media in the days after Floyd's death suggesting a group of white supremacists had reserved a block of rooms at a Fridley hotel. Local police said their investigation determined the rumor was likely started by a hotel employee.
Leaked intelligence briefings show that federal authorities were monitoring the movements and online activity of white nationalists and other extremist groups that descended on the city during the riots. The president of the Hells Angels summoned 75 members of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood to the help protect the club's headquarters in north Minneapolis, according to an intelligence memo, which surfaced earlier this year as part of massive trove of leaked law enforcement documents dubbed "Blue Leaks." A club member later posted a warning to protesters on Facebook saying that while the Angels agreed with the anti-law enforcement message, but that any protests that reached the clubhouse or "any of our neighborhoods" would be "met with a very unfriendly welcome party"
Another leaked memo suggested that local biker gangs were taking advantage of the unrest to step up their drug trafficking in the Metro area, and that bikers "associated with white racially motivated violent extremists" had discussed inciting riots while posing as members of the anti-fascist group Antifa. It wasn't immediately clear from the leaked materials whether any of these threats materialized.
After the protests began, footage of "Umbrella Man" roared around social media, prompting a flurry of speculation about the man's identity. One persistent rumor argued "Umbrella Man" was an undercover St. Paul police officer seeking to incite violence, a claim apparently based on a tweet citing information from a woman who claimed to have once been married to the officer.
In response, St. Paul police released a series of time-stamped surveillance videos showing that the officer was in St. Paul at the time of the incident and police Chief Todd Axtell released a statement scolding social media users for spreading misinformation that could "jeopardize the officer's reputation and safety and chip away at the trust this police department has worked so hard to build with its community."
CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNE
Sandra King, 70, waited for her granddaughter near the remains of AutoZone across from the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct.
More
Justin Terrell, executive director of the Council for Minnesotans of African American Heritage, said that conversations around Floyd's death and the ensuing riots are important, but they often fail to account for the persistence of structural racism.
"I think at the end of the day, we need to start dealing with those issues, because I think this Umbrella Man, he is a rotten piece of fruit at the farthest branch of the tree, (but) we've gotta get to the roots," Terrell said. "I think we have to do the work to get there, which America has never done, and Minnesota sure hasn't."
Staff writer Chao Xiong contributed to this report.
Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
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The autopsy contradicts Darren's version of events....at the very least he lied about the shooting..that should be investigated