The Minnesota governor is fully mobilizing the state’s national guard, something that hasn’t been done since World War II.
Speaking Saturday morning after Minneapolis and St. Paul saw the fourth night of violent riots where more buildings were set ablaze, Walz said rioters “are not with us.”
“If you are on the streets tonight, it is very clear: you are not with us, you do not share our values and we will use the full strength of goodness and righteousness to make sure that this ends.”
Walz said the people producing the violent riots are 20 percent Minnesotans and 80 percent from the outside. State leaders backtracked on that number later in the day.
Major General Jensen said the National Guard will respond to whatever the cities or state needs.
Authorities said there were around 20 arrests in both Minneapolis and St. Paul overnight. The charges range from burglary to destruction of property to curfew violations.
Mayor Carter says he has been told that every person arrested in Saint Paul last night was from out of state https://t.co/0x8tHbwS8f pic.twitter.com/E1pAOkHtBJ — CBS News (@CBSNews) May 30, 2020
nerdextra on May 30th, 2020 at 17:50 UTC »
Where’s the data/source on where the rioters are from? Is it based on the arrests being made?
Edit: thanks for the award!
Also, I wonder if any of those from “out of state” are college students who were going to school there?
Altair05 on May 30th, 2020 at 16:32 UTC »
Seems like there are 3 main groups. One set of peaceful protestors, a second group of violent protestors targeting the police infrastructure, and a third group of violent rioters just in it for the destruction and looting.
DogStrangler on May 30th, 2020 at 16:26 UTC »
apparently, this is the first time in the state's history it has been fully deployed.