RIOT LOG Monday - Later curfew, quiet

[dreamshark]

Almost caught up. Monday the curfew continued but beginning at 10 PM. The news is that there was pretty much no news. No fires, no riots, no mass arrests.

However, there continue to be ominous reports of vehicles with no plates cruising around the neighborhoods. People are increasingly finding water bottles full of gasoline packed in cardboard boxes and stashed in alleys and bushes. Sometimes behind businesses that might be later targets for arson, but also at random spots in residential neighborhoods. This is very perplexing. The theory seems to be that the out of town instigators in the unmarked trucks are caching these supplies to be used for later arson attacks. But the looting and violence have died down and the "accelerants" are still scattered around, like nuts buried by forgetful squirrels. Why were these caches established in the first place? Did they actually have so many bottles of gasoline that their SUVs and pickups couldn't hold them? Are they coming back for them? In any case, citizens are urged to check around their property. Not sure what you are supposed to do if you find one of these boxes. I think I would call 911 to report.

Clear, but extremely anecdotal, evidence of the Violent Outside Agitator emerged in a particularly stupid Facebook post by a guy from Chicago bragging about distributing and using homemade "bombs" in Minneapolis. He has been arrested

BEST NEWS OF THE DAY
The love-in at 38th and Chicago was not busted overnight by the curfew police despite the fact that it had swelled to what looked like hundreds of people during the course of the night. CBSN had assigned a young blonde reporter named Jennifer to cover developments there, and as the night went on she totally went native. Her reports started out with adjectives like "peaceful" and "non-violent," progressed into "healing" and "spiritual" and by the time I went to bed she was talking about "sacred ground" and "the heart and soul of community."  I am so glad they left it alone. Thanks, Jen, your reporting probably helped. 

Comments

[maruad]

Thank you for posting these. It helps provide a local narrative to go with the various news excerpts.

[gerisullivan]

One of Gavi's friends lives in an apartment building where they've *repeatedly* found a cardboard box of bottles containing gasoline behind their dumpster. They find one, remove it, check again later (don't know if the same day or the next day), find another box. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I don't know where in the Twin Cities the friend lives. But the squirrels were replenishing their nut stash after things started quieting down. So, yes, keeping a lookout for the time being seems wise.

[dreamshark]

Yikes! What are they doing with the gasoline, I wonder? You don't want to pour it down the drain, but it's probably not clean enough to put in your gas tank. I assume that nobody on my block has seen this, since we have a text chain set up and nothing has been reported.

Note that the arson stopped abruptly after the Friday night inferno. There may have been a scattered fire or two in the past 4 days but nothing major. So where are those bottles of accelerant going??