Year: 2020

shared with thanks from— Black America Web and #ItsGoingDown illustrations added

#Minneapolis is a turning point, as the first large scale US grassroots rebellion in the midst of the pandemic, but also because it showed the drive of the people to take action in the face of various forces attempting to push them off the streets. .. #ItsGoingDown

New video appears to show George Floyd kneeled on by 3 officers 

New video posted on social media appears to show THREE Minneapolis Police Department officers kneeling on George Floyd during his arrest.The new video, from a different angle, appears to show Chauvin and two other officers kneeling on Floyd. “I can’t breathe, man,” Floyd says in the new video. “Please, let me stand. Please, man.” This new video appears to have been taken before the Frazier video.  

Police Precinct Burned down in Victory as Resistance goes Nationwide

It’s Going Down @IGD_News As the afternoon wore on, people gathered outside of the precinct, as clashes with police continued. These running street battles escalated as rioters broke into the building, finally forcing police to flee in their vehicles. Once the building was empty, people then began to loot it and then set it on fire. What followed was a festive, party-life atmosphere for several hours while the precinct burned.

This victory over the police by thousands of people taking sustained action daily in the face of massive police violence, mainly young zoomers and millennials, represents a historical moment. As expressed in hours of interviews conducted by Unicorn Riot on the ground in the midst of the uprising, the revolt is not coming from the activist Left, nor from “progressives” or “liberals,” but instead from the local base of proletarian youth in Minneapolis. While the uprising has had a very multi-racial character, across the board there is an understanding that the entire anti-Black system of racialized capitalism must be destroyed.

LATE NEWS. Sat 5/30/20.. REBELLION SWEEPING USA .. Police & National Guard fall back as HUGE crowds defy curfew order (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) RT

As night wore on, solidarity demonstrations were kicking off across the so-called United States. Anarchists organized solidarity demonstrations and marches in Portland and Olympia, while students in Oakland blocked a freeway entrance. In Sacramento, street marches took place, while riots broke out in Fontana, which broke windows at City Hall.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, two days of protests were organized, with people on Wednesday blocking the 101 freeway; busting out the windows of a police car that attempted to drive into demonstrators. Finally in Phoenix, rowdy street marches gave way to riots, as people lobbed rocks at the Phoenix Police Department.

More riots and clashes with the police continued in Denver, where people fought with police and blocked a freeway, while in Columbus, riots in the street soon led to mass vandalism of the Statehouse. Street-fighting also took place in Louisville, Kentucky, while in New York, clashes with police led to multiple arrests. In the evening, Trump took to Twitter to call protesters “thugs” and announced the arrival of several hundred National Guard troops on the streets of Minneapolis, whom he claimed would potentially open fire on looters.

What follows is a roundup of solidarity protests and riots from across the so-called United States. For a list of upcoming protests and demonstrations, go here.

Pacific Northwest

Olympia, WA: Solidarity demonstration tears down fences keeping people from access Downtown park. Graffiti written. Read report here and here.

Portland, OR: Protest and occupation outside of so-called Justice Center continues into second day. At night, street march launched; blockades of streets.

Trump’s response to Minneapolis threatens to repeat the 1960s…Today Detroit’s Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, to name but one, proposed $9 million to purchase riot-control equipment, including 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 700 shotguns, 1,000 M-1 carbines, 6,000 gas ...

Burning police cars tonight in Atlanta, Richmond, and Brooklyn—and that's just the East Coast. The US government has lost the consent of the governed. They can only maintain control by brute force. #MinneapolisRiots everywhere.https://t.co/qr7wAj0QHj

Let's dream a new future. pic.twitter.com/88QFXs50DE

— CrimethInc. (@crimethinc) May 30, 2020

Southwest

Sacramento, CA: Street march blocks streets.

So we’re on Florin Rd in Sacramento blocking one of the three lanes in each direction when cops pull up.

Cops: “get out of the road”

Everybody at the protest: takes the other two lanes as well.

Cops: immediately give up and dip into the Walmart parking lot to restrategize pic.twitter.com/hywcWHUTiB

— looting the dipping mustard store (@starfoxmike) May 28, 2020

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