St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter (D) said Saturday that all of the protesters who were arrested in his city the previous night were from out of state as demonstrations in and around Minneapolis over George Floyd’s death descended into violence.
Carter said there was not a high number of arrests in St. Paul on Friday night due in part to a curfew, but suggested that out-of-staters were behind much of the agitation fueling the violence.
“Because we had a relative stillness in St. Paul, we didn’t make an enormous number of arrests, but every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state. What we are seeing right now is a group of people who are not from here,” Carter said at a press conference.
“As I talk to my friends who have been in this movement for a very long time, who wake up in this movement every day and I ask them what they’re seeing, what they’re feeling, what they’re hearing, to a person, I hear them say ‘we don’t know these folks. We don’t know these folks who are agitating, we don’t know these folks who are inciting violence, we don’t know these folks who are first in to break a window.’”
The remarks come as protests across the country over Floyd’s death turn violent, with demonstrators vandalizing buildings and businesses in several cities.
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St. Paul mayor says all protesters on Friday were from out of state https://t.co/4Jh6cj0mVt pic.twitter.com/F3Op6NBzfg
— The Hill (@thehill) May 30, 2020Remarkable info coming out of this presser: Gov. Tim Walls, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and now MN attorney general Keith Ellison ALL alleging outside forces, domestic and possibly foreign, have post-Tuesday infiltrated the state, and are
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020And the governor says he has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, and fully mobilized the MN National Guard for the first time in 164 years. This is a continuing story and presumably we will begin hearing it echoed in other cities.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020He adds that white nationalist groups are posting messages promoting going to Minneapolis to “get our loot on” and cause mayhem. He says they will investigate those using the outrage over the murder of George Floyd as a “cover” for illegal activity
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020This pressure just gets more remarkable. Mayor Frey says on Tuesday the protests were very different. He says the masks worn by the protests after they morphed were about disguise, not covid safety.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020This is now a story not just about grief, anger, protest, George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, it’s about infiltration and deliberate mayhem inflicted on the very communities that are hurting — both because of police brutality, and due to cove—per the mayor 1,000 deaths to date.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020Marvelous. https://t.co/aRH33MoRsG
— David French (@DavidAFrench) May 30, 2020
Well, duh! All of these riots we’ve had — from the 1960s through today — have been highly organized and well financed by persons and organizations whose united goal is to create and promote anarchy, destroy America and create something else — a Communist state, a Muslim caliphate, who knows?
Point is that it’s long past time for our federal authorities to root out these individuals and organizations. I believe if the money trail can be located, following it will lead us to whoever or whatever is behind it all.
Twin cities mayors, Minnesota governor walk back comments about out-of-state protestors https://t.co/JXbq5Kecto pic.twitter.com/waCu8kc4x5
— The Hill (@thehill) May 31, 2020
I guess the mayors’ comments didn’t fit in with the Dem socialist/communist agenda talking points that these “protesters” were just some local poor black people tired of being persecuted by white folks and only seeking justice for one of their own.
Rumor has it that a number of prominent Democrats, including Biden, are actually paying bail for those who were arrested. If so, this tells me they support lawlessness, anarchy and a subsequent eradication of American freedoms, values and our form of government. Trump fans should take note — we who criticize Trump are not the enemy. These people are. Instead of fighting with us, they should be demanding that their idol launch an investigation, using whatever agencies he can, into who or what is behind these riots and if they can be identified, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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