Police announced on Monday that they believe undercover white supremacists led a group of rioters that cut down police tape over the weekend and rushed a police station, eventually setting a dump truck on fire outside the station. Richmond Police Chief Gerald Smith said he thinks the instigators were linked to the Boogaloo boys, a right-wing anarchist group that has ties to white supremacy. He also said that left-wing antifa protesters were involved in the violence.
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Stoney thanked the Black Lives Matter protesters who remained peaceful and did not follow the lead of the instigators.
"As I began with, I want to send a thanks to the BLM protesters on the ground who decried the white supremacists once they were identified. I'm thankful to you for drawing the line and sticking up not just for the sanctity of your movement, but also the safety of your fellow Richmonders that you marched alongside as well," he said.
Police say the masked, umbrella-wielding man who smashed windows at a Minneapolis auto parts store two days after George Floyd's death has ties to a white supremacist group and specifically sought to inflame racial tensions.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minneapolis police arson investigator Erika Christensen wrote in a search warrant affidavit filed this week that the man's actions created a hostile atmosphere and sparked a series of events that turned previously peaceful protests chaotic. She said she believed his "sole aim was to incite violence."
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"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Christensen wrote in the affidavit, according to reports. "Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful."
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The tipster identified the man as a Hell's Angels member, and said he "wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors," reported the Star Tribune.
Some far-right groups have purposefully sown confusion by impersonating left-wing activists, adding chaos to already turbulent days of protests in which local officials have blamed unnamed outsiders and left-wing groups for the mayhem.
Late Monday, Twitter announced that it had suspended an account for a purported radical left-wing group, @ANTIFA_US. Those behind the recently created account, which had been suspended after tweeting calls for violence during the protests, had ties to a white nationalist group, Twitter said. The company also suspended another fake Antifa account, after a far-right group claimed it had created it to infiltrate the movement.
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Nevada charged three men with terrorism offenses, saying they plotted to use Molotov cocktails and explosives to spark violence at protests over Floyd’s death. Prosecutors said the three — Stephen T. Parshall, 35, Andrew Lynam, 23, and William L. Loomis, 40 — were members of the “Boogaloo†movement.
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Mornin..
So I'm starting to realize that most of the residual pain I've got is a result of what they needed to do during the surgery. Like my neck itself doesn't really hurt that much. The real pain I have now is my collarbone! I suspect it's bruised from the retraction instruments they had to use to keep me opened up.
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Mornin..
So I'm starting to realize that most of the residual pain I've got is a result of what they needed to do during the surgery. Like my neck itself doesn't really hurt that much. The real pain I have now is my collarbone! I suspect it's bruised from the retraction instruments they had to use to keep me opened up.
Have you asked your doctor about that?
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Should we appreciate the schadenfreude in Louis Gohmert having Covid-19?
After my discussions with VP Pence and others, the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from Portland. They have acted as an occupying force & brought violence. Starting tomorrow, all Customs and Border Protection & ICE officers will leave downtown Portland.
— Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) July 29, 2020
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Should we appreciate the schadenfreude in Louis Gohmert having Covid-19?
I do not feel joy that he is suffering. I feel sorrow in the fact that Gohmert will likely learn nothing and go back to his same schick after he recovers.
The fair has only been canceled twice since it began in 1818, the Essex Agricultural Society said. In 1918, all agricultural fairs in the state were canceled due to the Spanish flu pandemic and it was canceled from 1943 to 1945 for World War II.