Speaking with the two men, I noted the proclivity of rightwing media to point to armed leftists as evidence of seeking violence.

Comrade Loon explained: We are here to keep people safe and to remind people that we can and should arm ourselves.

He added a message to any conservative viewers:

Afterwards, I asked if he wanted a hug. He nodded & gave me a big bear hug. When it ended, he had tears in his eyes. “This is my neighborhood. I used to eat there all the time as kid,” he pointed down the road to a pho shop behind me. “I loved it.”

“Now it’s all ruined.”

Not saying this as some saviorism bs. It is all hands on deck. Folks coming to MSP need to stop chasing the bleeds-it-leads and start covering the community, the unity, the joy and love and warmth and goodness and exhaustion and anger and discipline.

This is a call to action to my fellow indies.

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Watched a line of riot police (county police) arrest several peaceful people who had approached calmly with their hands in the air, I believe to ask the police for clarifications about the dispersal order.

So once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work.

This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.

This website has a lot of links to places that could use donations right now.

www.standwithminnesota.com