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Do you have any evidence of this? There is evidence that suggests most protesters are local. A review of all the arrests made by Minneapolis-based police agencies for rioting, unlawful assembly and burglary-related crimes from Friday to Saturday tells a different story. KARE 11 found that of 36 cases, about 86 percent of those arrested listed Minnesota as their address. The data, taken from the Hennepin County Jail’s roster, shows that nearly all of the people arrested in likely connection to the riots live in Minneapolis or the metro area. The five cases from outside Minnesota were of people listed as living in Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Michigan and Illinois. Data provided Saturday afternoon by St. Paul police also appears to contradict the narrative that the majority of the violence is being caused by people from outside the state. Of the 18 people arrested from Thursday to Saturday morning, 12 listed Minnesota as their address. Two were from North Dakota, one from Wisconsin, and one from Texas. Addresses for two others weren’t listed. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said during the Saturday morning press conference, “Every single person we arrested last night I’m told was from out of state.” https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-records-show-arrests-mostly-minnesotans-as-george-floyd-protests-riots-continue-minneapolis-st-paul/89-73f3e0e8-0664-41d5-8d3e-4467d04da7cb

The title of this thread is "Minnesota Riots" and that's precisely what I'm commenting on, I'm not discusssing the protest, the BLM movement or Trump politics, which seems to dominate almost every other thread.

I have nothing against the actual protesters, but these clips have virtually nothing to do with the declared protest, it is pure opportunism to participate in mayhem, damage property and grab loot with reduced odds of being caught. As for the demographic, there seems to be just as many white kids as black involved and the majority of them look to be student age, so I can't see many being affiliated with white supremacists or Trump supporters. For the most part they're idiot kids.

These people represent no cause, they're in it for the destruction, violence and looting, they do not represent the B.L.M. movement, nor are they white supremacists or professional agitators spurred on by Trump, they are nothing more than hoodlums. In fact representatives of B.L.M. should step forward and denounce these activities so they can distance themselves from this destruction and theft.

This is about as ugly as it gets, 10+ young males attack a man defending his business with a skateboard . There is no rational explanation for this behaviour, the people involved are no better than the cop that committed the original crime . Time for Trump to announce a Natl. curfew and bring the army in to take control of the hot spots.

Now this is smart..

Wannabees in Toronto looking for any excuse to break out and show they world class too! Globalnews.ca @globalnews 54m Thousands gathered in Toronto on Saturday in response to Korchinski-Paquet’s death, as well as the wider issue of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. Thousands rally in Toronto after death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet The protest, shared on social media under the hashtag #JusticeForRegis and organized by the group Not Another Black Life, began at 2 p.m. at Christie Pits park. globalnews.ca At this point there is no evidence the victim died at the hands of the police. "Relatives of 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet, who fell from the balcony of a Toronto apartment tower Wednesday night, say they called police to help her get through a mental health crisis and instead she ended up dead." Amazing how quickly everyone has forgotten about social distancing. This is in Toronto.

Minneapolis vs. Joker (2019). We saw this coming.

This event has grown well beyond a "protest", it should be classified as a riot moving on towards anarchy at this point, time for some fully-automatic weapons to put a stop to the party and take back the streets. Just as many non-blacks involved in creating chaos as blacks, here is a video of some suburban kid's having fun ripping stuff up, the target looks to be a US Postal depot.

Hold on a minute....I was getting my gear together to join the billionaire huntin' posse...I've got a garden hose and an old set of illegal lawn darts! ATTACK!!!!

Anyone else remember Mr. Canoe-head? I think the comedy troop was "The Frantics".

The "I'm Mike from Canmore" reference is getting a little long in the tooth for anyone to remember. 😄

Probably sisters.

De-listing protected lands and reducing parkland a couple of months ago was Kenney's setup to this punchline.

Canadians shouldn't feelmorally superior to Americans in regard to maintaining social distancing in the face of a contagion, here is a photo taken in a downtown Toronto park this past weekend. The US does not have exclusive ownership of idiots, we have plenty of our own. Here's a photo of a very special idiot, MayorJohn Tory who attended the same park. Lucky John remembered to wear his mask! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bylaw-officers-downtown-party-trinity-bellwoods-1.5582399

Just more of the same, Jason Kenney doing his best to turn back the clock on environmental standards by 45 years without consulting the public before doing so. This is what happens when money is valued more than life itself, selling off the natural environment that sustains us a nickel at a time. Alberta to change restrictions on foothills coal mining to ease development The Alberta government is changing its coal policies in a move it says is intended to make it easier to develop open-pit mines in one of the province’s most sensitive areas. “Government is placing a strong focus on creating the necessary conditions for the growth of export coal production,” says a news release dated May 15. The changes, to come into effect June 1, abolish graduated protections that have been in place since 1976 for land in Alberta’s southwestern foothills. The vast area of mountains, streams and meadows is home to threatened species such as grizzly bears and contains the headwaters for much of the fresh water in the southern prairies. https://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/alberta-to-change-restrictions-on-foothills-coal-mining-to-ease-development/wcm/228e2bd9-8120-44c8-98b5-c33500744343/ Alberta Energy Regulator suspends environment monitoring for oilpatch over COVID Recent environmental monitoring exemptions for the oilsands have been broadened to include Alberta’s entire energy industry. The Alberta Energy Regulator says the decisions, posted Wednesday on its website, are in response to public-health concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies no longer have to monitor fumes released by burning, or look for and repair leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Surface waters need no longer be tested, unless they escape into the environment — and that water need no longer be tested in a lab. Soil and groundwater monitoring is gone, “with the exception of any monitoring that is necessary to protect human health and ecological receptors,” the decisions say. In-situ oilsands operations no longer have to conduct any wildlife monitoring, including research programs and population estimates. That includes remotely operated monitoring, although bird deterrents must remain in place. Reclamation and wetland monitoring is also suspended, as are research requirements. Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada has said his group isn’t aware of any other jurisdiction in the world that has gone as far as Alberta to roll back environmental protections during the pandemic, including the United States under President Donald Trump. https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/alberta-energy-regulator-suspends-environment-monitoring-for-oilpatch-over-covid/wcm/efc8c0d7-cf57-44f0-a532-9124f119c820/

The CFL can't pretend it's business as usual, this season (if it happens) will be in response to a crisis, teams won't have the funds to conduct business as they have in the past, therefore they need to find significant economies. Here's a few ideas to cut costs. Cut down preliminary expenses, CFL pre-season doesn't make any money so it's an obvious target, teams can't afford to bring in 85 players to tryout for 46 positions, that is obvious waste when you consider the cost of flying them in, feeding and housing them. Plus keeping players in quarantine will be more costly than usual and will put that many more players needlessly at risk only to eventually be cut. Cut training camp down to 2 weeks prior to the first game, scrap the 2 exhibition games and decide who's going to be on the team before T.C. even begins. Might suck if your team is caught up in the middle of a rebuild or just hired a new H.C....but hey we've got the Cup! 46 players + 10 reserve should be enough to start up, injury replacements can be brought in as needed during the season, not sure the point of keeping a PR squad in a shortened season, maybe cut that as well.....cuts need to be made.

BC is adjusting plans rapidly, originally the remainder of the school year had been cancelled, just received word from my S.D, that local schools will re-open June 1st . Attendance will not be mandatory, each student has the option of attending 2-3 days per week on specified days, teachers will be working with a 50% class-load 5 days per week. I think this is rather premature and will not allow my kids to take part in this experiment, but I must admit I have not heard any reports of children catching or passing on COVID-19.

Point is if the league is unable to make a profit as a whole and are also unsuccessful at increasing revenue, their options are to cut costs or go directly out of business, that's the way it generally works.

Video of the Snowbirds crash.

MICHIGAN CLOSES DOWN CAPITOL IN FACE OF DEATH THREATS FROM ARMED PROTESTERS AGAINST GOV. WHITMER On Thursday, Michigan closed down its capitol building and canceled its legislative session after online death threats made against Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The threats were made by protesters who planned to attend a "Judgement Day" protest at the capitol. The protesters ostensibly oppose Whitmer's statewide shutdown orders meant to slow the spread of coronavirus. Dozens of posts in private invitation-only Facebook groups called for Whitmer to be hanged, lynched, shot, beaten or beheaded. One suggested crowdfunding sources to hire a hitman to kill her. "We haven't had any bloodshed yet, but the populous [sic] is counting to three, and yesterday was day two," wrote Dave Meisenheimer in a 385,000-member Facebook group called Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine. "Next comes the watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants," he concluded. "When I read some of the words that were published this week, it's not about staying at home, it's not about maybe losing your business ... it's about spreading blood on the front lawn of this building, and I would be lying if I said that sitting in my chair with four men in rifles behind me didn't make me think that I was going to be [dying from gun violence] very soon," McMorrow said in a May 12 speech to the legislature. "Yeah, we're supposed to stand up here and say we're brave and we're not intimidated," she continued, "but guess what: That is damned intimidation and it is not welcome, and my question back is what the hell are we going to do about it? Or do we wait until something happens?" https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-closes-down-capitol-face-death-threats-armed-protesters-against-gov-whitmer-1504241

Meanwhile on the streets of Mexico.....

Sure, why not. In East Texas, armed protesters patrol a tattoo shop that defied the lockdown and reopened Friday: https://nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-texas-armed-militias-reopening.html…