People of good faith may disagree with what caused the George Floyd protests, their severity or their impact.
What no one can argue is whether or not they were a global event.
Reports range from $1-2 Billion dollars with $500 million within 25 miles of this sacred circle.
14,000 people were arrested, 9 people died directly and many millions of people felt compelled to follow a specific set of narratives.
In my opinion, we experienced a collective global religious event akin to a mass hysteria. This article is about the global phenomena of those protests and some of the events leading up to it that informed my 2017 predictions that Minnesota would be the epicenter of a global panic.
This circle at 38th and Chicago and the Golden casket became the center of a Global Moral Movement that was not the first from Minnesota.
The FAA gave one news organization a waiver to fly a drone to capture this sacred circle on what the Mayor of Minneapolis refers to as “Sacred Ground”.
This includes the 4th Precinct Takeover which was I believe was a dry run for this human emotional network.
No Single Variable
Policing and Race in America are big, complex, topics. Everybody brings their biases, predispositions and political point of view to the conversation. I’ve seen the messy inside of a few Minneapolis police homicides, the policy, inevitable coverup, investigations, media coverage, activism, corporate response, the politics and the outrage.
While I’ve spent more time looking closely at these issues in Minnesota and talking to families impacted by them, I’m no expert. Everyone seems to have a single variate solution to solve whatever it is that happened.
Sometimes they tweet it, sometimes they whisper it at family gatherings and sometimes they put it on signs.
I don’t have a single variable and I don’t trust anyone that does. The fact is, it’s complicated.
One thing we can all agree on is something went horribly wrong and it went wrong all over the place.
It’s that “all over the place” that I find particularly interesting.
This didn’t start with George Floyd and isn’t over with the multi million dollar settlements, Federal and State criminal convictions of the officers involved.
Some Backstory
Some would start this story in 1619, when the first slave ship landed in America. Where one begins the story often determines how you look at it.
My own interest in police policy begins in my 20’s, finding out each blow in the Rodney King was within policy.
While the city was burning because of the likely racism there was this another disconcerting thing, the legality of the beating, that I thought was more disturbing.
For years in Minnesota, I tried to get my friends interested in police policy but it was abstract, complicated and stood in the way of the advancing power of the state.
When BLM came to Minnesota, they began to care overnight.
Curiously, they only cared at certain times, with certain deaths and only as it came to be called marches and under certain race conditions.
4th Precinct Takeover – The Dry Run
2015 was a difficult year between Jamar Clark and Law Enforcement. However, he didn’t start to matter to protestors until Nov. 15th when he was shot by two police officers.
Once he started to matter nothing he might have done to precipitate the police pulling the trigger could be discussed without histrionic, mob reactions.
Certain narrative points were spreading around others were blocked or shut down.
This same thing went for the actions of the protestors, almost all of whom were white Women and Marxist children that would ordinarily never be seen in that neighborhood but now were there screaming, throwing rocks, bottles, starting fires.
In addition to picking pronouns individually, the group got to pick their own adjectives. (peaceful, righteous, justified.)
I attended a number of the prayer meetings, chanting rites and other religious services before realizing this was cult-like behavior. Still interested, I went home, set up a laptop, a television, a radio scanner and put extra monitors on my regular computers and began watching multiple live streams and hashtags.
Minnesota Policing and Minneapolis City corruption are legitimate problems that require measured long term and sober dedication. This require a meticulous understanding of policy and a general understanding that these problems are problems for everyone, not just a minority of people.
What I saw at the 4th Precinct Takeover was histrionic chaos, viral misinformation and punishment for dissent and a rigidly enforced groupthink. Police homicides were the biggest problem for Black people in America; only Black Lives Matter.
Fantasy information would spread from the protestors at Ground Zero reporting on the “lived experience” of the Women and Black Indigenous University of Minnesota Students of Color and spread to a global network of people watching the Black Lives Matter, Justice for Jamar and #4thPrecinctTakeover hashtags.
Then DeRay Mckesson tweeted that his flight had landed. From then on, you could watch the network pulse with lies and hysteria.
Philando Castile – The Foreshock
Six months later a panicked Diamond Reynold’s pulled out her phone to stream the death of her boyfriend Philando Castile live on Facebook. Philando immediately mattered more than any other Black person in history.
The mostly peaceful rocks and bottles were again thrown at police and the same pattern of white Women and Marxist Children following the relevant hashtags and enforcing a very specific victim narrative.
They pretended Diamond Reyold’s hysterical pleadings and pointing a camera at the Geronimo Yanez while Castile pulled out a gun while unknowingly under suspicion of a felony weren’t factors in the shooting.
This wasn’t a Woman escalating a conflict, this was white supremacy, despite no white people being involved until the protests.
Then they again pretended screaming and chanting at police made things better.
The media and the social media mindhive were all in lock step pretending this unrest was all Black people. It was easy to predict Minneapolis Police would kill a white Woman, the following summer, they did.
Mohamed Noor shot an Australian woman running out to alert them. He went from being celebrated as the first MN Somali Police Officer to being the first officer charged with Murder in MN state history. In the eyes of the White women and Marxist children, he magically became a “Black Man”.
The injustice drum kept on beating despite the historical tensions between Black and Somalis in Minnesota.
The George Floyd Protests
The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor’s office government officials in Minnesota released misinformation.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speculated that there was “an organized attempt to destabilize civil society”, initially saying as many as 80% of the individuals had possibly come from outside the state, and the mayor of St. Paul, Melvin Carter, said everyone arrested in St. Paul on May 29 was from out of state. However, jail records showed that the majority of those arrested were in-state.
This misinformation spread everywhere.
The Anonymous hacking collective took down the City of Minneapolis website so journalists couldn’t see that the policy was still in the use of force manual. The City Council, who were supposed to change that policy but didn’t were at Powderhorn Park inciting the crowd.
Curiously, certain information, such as George Floyd’s resisting arrest or the deadly amount of fentanyl up his ass behind the wheel of a vehicle in the State of Minnesota. You curiously couldn’t talk about Minnesota’s draconian DUI Laws, Tony Timpa, or the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Lombardo Decision from 4/20/2020 which also made this okay in the eyes of the law.
Any of these topics became immediately taboo as outrage spread across The Mindhive (™).
