What Say Ye Now, Mayor Frey?
Minneapolis burning. Stores looted. One shot dead. No police presence. Firefighters pulled back.
"I understand if you're angry, I understand if you're hurting, I understand if you're sad; by all means express yourselves.," Frey said. "I will make sure to defend First Amendment rights, but when these First Amendment rights begin to infringe on public safety, we do need to make sure that it stops."
Frey said he's asked for assistance, but said he couldn't provide any further details.
"Obviously we have some intelligence on what is to come ... this is minute by minute," Frey said. "I'm not going to predict what comes in the next 10 minutes let alone tomorrow."
That long hot summer of our discontent in American cities?
It's here.
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ADDED: I live on the 6400 block of 10th Street North. Good security here. Double-locked doors. But this is still too close to home...
OAKDALE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Police in Oakdale, Minnesota say they responded to protests Tuesday night outside the presumed home of one of the Minneapolis police officers fired in the death of George Floyd.
According to the Oakdale Police Department, officers responded to the area of the 7500 block of 17th Street North Tuesday afternoon in response to reports of disturbances in the area.
"The disturbances were related to the belief an officer involved in the Minneapolis critical incident may reside in the neighborhood," police said in a news release.
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