Open carry protesters @ George Floyd Rally arrested, guns confiscated

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FB Link with video of arrests. The men were peacefully protesting in a non threatening manner, no where near the more violent protests and the PD showed up and arrested them for exercising their rights. They tried to justify it by saying they need permits to open carry but at least one of them had a valid permit (they did release that one eventually). They still confiscated his rifle and took it to the station making him go get it.

Context: Minneapolis PD murdered a handcuffed man by putting their knee + bodyweight on his throat for 10 min so people are protesting. FBI is investigating the situation and the 4 officers involved have been "separated from employment" but I don't think any charges have been filed.

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FB has either sanitized that link, or the OP took it down.
 
SPST said:
What are the MN laws concerning firearms and protests?
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The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.*

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some_kid6 said:
FB Link with video of arrests. The men were peacefully protesting in a non threatening manner, no where near the more violent protests and the PD showed up and arrested them for exercising their rights. They tried to justify it by saying they need permits to open carry but at least one of them had a valid permit (they did release that one eventually). They still confiscated his rifle and took it to the station making him go get it.

Context: Minneapolis PD murdered a handcuffed man by putting their knee + bodyweight on his throat for 10 min so people are protesting. FBI is investigating the situation and the 4 officers involved have been "separated from employment" but I don't think any charges have been filed.

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The knee on neck forever is about the dumbest thing I have seen a cop do lately. Why would somebody think that this would not kill someone? He's fired, but should have other charges, imo. And his accomplices. Basically just killed the guy in front of a bunch of people telling him "you are killing that guy". Boggles my mind.
 
Button Pusher said:
They will be reinstated with back pay and benefits after the union goes to court.
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And Minneapolis will be burnt to the ground.

Glad to see the officers fired promptly but the public clearly wants them in jail immediately without due process. I’m all for letting the legal process play out, I’m pretty confident these guys will be charged.
 
zuerjoha said:
The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.*

*Subject to change. Offer not valid in some locations. Please visit www.2a.com for information regarding exceptions.
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You know, it's all fun and games until someone registers that and makes it another whitehouse.com problem. :p
 
Jerzsubbie said:
And Minneapolis will be burnt to the ground.

Glad to see the officers fired promptly but the public clearly wants them in jail immediately without due process. I’m all for letting the legal process play out, I’m pretty confident these guys will be charged.
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The FBI is now involved, we know how that works.
 
This got posted in another post, but this video deserves a thread all by itself.

This guy has a CHP which makes it legal to open carry in MN.

This just reminds you that we don't "really" have the right to keep and bear arms...

 
NKD said:
The knee on neck forever is about the dumbest thing I have seen a cop do lately. Why would somebody think that this would not kill someone? He's fired, but should have other charges, imo. And his accomplices. Basically just killed the guy in front of a bunch of people telling him "you are killing that guy". Boggles my mind.
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This type of behavior won’t stop until bad cops are held accountable by the justice system. If the justice system fails and people start shooting these bad cops things will change. It’s going to happen, people are fed up with the criminal actions committed under the color of law
 
Jerzsubbie said:
And Minneapolis will be burnt to the ground.
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And that's started...
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Tucci454 said:
I'll never understand burning down a random retail establishment because the cops killed someone.
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That’s the entitlement mentality. If they were smarter, they’d realize they could enact change in several ways, ranging from better raising of their offspring to outright rebellion against govt.

Instead they just want free stuff and then to complain when the stores close up.
 
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Leadchunker said:
This type of behavior won’t stop until bad cops are held accountable by the justice system. If the justice system fails and people start shooting these bad cops things will change. It’s going to happen, people are fed up with the criminal actions committed under the color of law
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It needs to start with cops holding other cops accountable. In just about all the videos of cops doing wrong, there were other cops that did nothing to stop it.
 
Jerzsubbie said:
And Minneapolis will be burnt to the ground.

Glad to see the officers fired promptly but the public clearly wants them in jail immediately without due process. I’m all for letting the legal process play out, I’m pretty confident these guys will be charged.
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If you or i did that to someone on video do you really think we would be at home awaiting due process (without paying bail)?
 
noway2 said:
That’s the entitlement mentality. If they were smarter, they’d realize they could enact change in several ways, ranging from better raising of their offspring to outright rebellion against govt.

Instead they just want free stuff and then to complain when the stores close up.
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detroit '67 is a great example. the people had every reason to rise up, and they did. but it was the looters and criminals that did the damage. That caused anybody with money and a job to flee the city and move to the suburbs. the tax base fell apart. city couldn't provide a lot of services. businesses left because they went where the people with money were so that they could worry less about theft.
Then you wind up with an area full of poor people that have no stores to go to.
Living is like playing jenga - you can pull a few things out, but eventually everything becomes unstable and subject to rapid collapse.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
detroit '67 is a great example. the people had every reason to rise up, and they did. but it was the looters and criminals that did the damage. That caused anybody with money and a job to flee the city and move to the suburbs. the tax base fell apart. city couldn't provide a lot of services. businesses left because they went where the people with money were so that they could worry less about theft.
Then you wind up with an area full of poor people that have no stores to go to.
Living is like playing jenga - you can pull a few things out, but eventually everything becomes unstable and subject to rapid collapse.
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“Don’t loot and burn and destroy your own community”
 
Tailhunter said:
“Don’t loot and burn and destroy your own community”
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you'd think that would be common sense...
but i guess your leaders tell you how everything is everybody else's fault and you deserve free stuff because other people who work hard at things that make them money have money and you don't...
 
DrScaryGuy said:
you'd think that would be common sense...
but i guess your leaders tell you how everything is everybody else's fault and you deserve free stuff because other people who work hard at things that make them money have money and you don't...
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It’s always the other guys fault for all my piss poor life decisions.
 
THIS is the kind of reporting that pisses me off (Fox News):

Max Nesterak, a reporter for the Minnesota Reformer, interviewed a group of armed men outside a tobacco shop who said they agree with the protests but not the looting. They said police in the city have been overextended and they stopped at the tobacco shop because they were told the business owners were desperate to protect their store.

“These guys are out here with machetes, with shattered windows trying to keep looters out because cops can’t get in here,” one of the armed men said. “So I figured before there were cops, there were Americans. So here we are.”

Another armed man said, “We definitely don’t agree with the looting, but we do agree with the cause and the protest.”

So far, so good, right? Then Fox throws this gem in:

Some commenters on social media worried that armed citizens could escalate the situation.

WTF?!?!
1) LOOTERS happen, but it's the armed citizens who escalate?
2) Who gives a flying f**& what "social media commenters" think, let alone say? (Unless they're "influencers," of course!)
 
AR10ShooterinNC said:
It needs to start with cops holding other cops accountable. In just about all the videos of cops doing wrong, there were other cops that did nothing to stop it.
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YES, the Asian cop should have told him 'I got him now, OK'. Instead he blocked video by standing in the way and prevented anyone from approaching. All four of them lost their Qualified Immunity at that point.
 
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NKD said:
The knee on neck forever is about the dumbest thing I have seen a cop do lately. Why would somebody think that this would not kill someone? He's fired, but should have other charges, imo. And his accomplices. Basically just killed the guy in front of a bunch of people telling him "you are killing that guy". Boggles my mind.
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While it was pretty dumb. Performing a no knock raid on the wrong house to arrest a guy who was already in police custody was pretty dumb
 
I keep thinking that at some point a protestor will ask an officer for assistance with something that causes the officer to leave his vehicle, the protestors friends will then burn the vehicle. It’s a protest of the police generally without causing physical harm to any specific officer who is most likely not a bad guy.
 
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