Important. There's a lot of gaslighting & false reports circulating regarding the Minneapolis riots

[MelissaB]

Important. There’s a lot of gaslighting and false reports circulating regarding the Minneapolis riots. Wait for confirmation before sharing.

Link to tweet

Saint Paul Police Department
@sppdmn
RUMOR CONTROL ...

We are aware of the social media post that erroneously identifies one of our officers as the person caught on video breaking windows in Minneapolis.

We've seen it. We've looked into it. And it's false.

Link to tweet

[greenjar_01]

1. Who will speak for the police????

[gopiscrap]

2. Bullshit

pigs always lie

[MelissaB]

3. And some people on social media have no motives at all...

[The Magistrate]

4. No Particular Reason To Believe Them, Ma'am

Not sure the identification is correct myself, but do not think this official disavowal worth a penny off the railroad track....

[MelissaB]

9. I don't know if the id i correct, either, but I know that if it's a false report

it could do a lot of damage. There are people there to cause trouble.

I'm just hoping people will withhold judgment for a bit until we know one way or the other.

[rickford66]

5. So, there's still a white guy inciting the rioting.

[napi21]

6. I don't LIVE IN Mn. but I can tell you all "PIGS" aren't liars. Yoo bad the few tarnish all. nt

[backscatter712]

15. That excuse is out of gas.

We all just watched a video where three cops stood and watched while one of their own murdered a man.

Yes, as a matter of fact, those "innocent" cops you talk about ARE tarnished. And should be.

The fact that police refuse to police their own, and haven't for years indicates to me that the "good" cops are just as bad as the overt murderers.

[napi21]

19. The cop who committed murder WILL be tried, and I assume convicted. The 3 cops with him will

also be charged, I'm sure. In the police manual in Mn. it states Any officers present when excessive force is used MUST stop the illegal assault. They DIDN'T! We are not the only people who believe there was sufficient proof in the video we saw to have made arrests already, but I'm sure the investigators are being extra cautious . There's a reason MOST cases brought against police officers fail to get convictions. It's not worth rushing if it compromises the case.

[Midnight Writer]

7. So who is the Window Guy? Will they arrest him, charge him, and allow a public trial?

I watched the video and that was some shady shit. This guy looked like a pro. He was working with a purpose, and he scuttled out of there so quick.

We, and I mean all of us, should know who this guy is and what the story is.

[okaawhatever]

12. Paid agitator is my guess.

There are a lot of people who would like to see this country fail, or have a second civil war, etc. Putin is just one of them.

Paying someone to start a fire that will certainly escalate tensions is S.O.P. for those guys.

[Midnight Writer]

13. But paid by who? If they know who the guy isn't, do they know who he is? Will they tell us?

I'm reminded of the days of COINTEL when our Government used agitators.

But you're right. Lots of powerful entities have motives.

[backscatter712]

20. Plainclothes cop provocateur, or possibly a neo-Nazi.

Hell, the Nazis don't have to get paid to do evil shit like that. They do that for fun.

[okaawhatever]

24. Exactly n/t

[dflprincess]

8. The St. Paul Police Chief has made officers watch the video & put themselves in Floyd's place

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/st-paul-police-chief-had-all-his-officers-watch-the-george-floyd-video

St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell says he had made all of his officers watch the video of George Floyd's arrest, and challenged them to put themselves in Floyd's shoes as they go about their jobs.

The chief says he was "shocked, disgusted, angry and grieving" as footage emerged showing a police officer's knee being placed on Floyd's neck, with the 46-year-old dying at Hennepin County Medical Center shortly afterwards.

Axtell went public with his comments after speaking with his officers, calling the video "beyond disturbing."

"Something went horribly wrong at the intersection of 38th and Chicago, and everyone in law enforcement owes it to themselves, their coworkers, their city and the people they serve to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

"So today I asked every SPPD police officer to watch the horrible video and do something different. I asked them to put themselves in George Floyd’s shoes.

"I asked them to imagine they are on the ground and cannot breathe. Imagine that their only option is to turn to a police officer for help. Imagine the pain, fear and desperation. Then think about how their families would feel later, watching such a video of them, beneath the knee of an officer, with no hope.

What surprised me was that even Rich Stanek, the former Hennepin County Sheriff (and a real asshole) critized the Minneapolis police actions in this case.

[Cha]

11. TY for that, dlfp.

[Alex4Martinez]

16. "dying at the medical center shorty afterwards" or "had no pulse at scene"?

He wasn't pronounced dead until arrival to the HCMC, but he didn't have a pulse when he was treated by EMTs.

A minor, but not unimportant detail, IMO.

Thanks for the link to the story!

[Grokenstein]

10. Wow, fastest self-exonerating self-investigation in police history!

I dunno where the guy got that hard-to-obtain police riot gear, though.
Must've been holding onto it for just such an occasion! Years later, his patience paid off!

[Ohio Joe]

14. Yeah... Right...

Lets see the documentation of that investigation.

[ecstatic]

18. Up in flames? nt

[ecstatic]

17. Sorry, the police have no credibility at this point.

Sort of like trump.

[Sunsky]

21. Do I believe them? Nah

Am I sure the allegations are true? Nope. But this tweet means nothing to me. How about those fake police reports? I have seen far too many to blindly trust what is said here. When you sow seeds of lies, you reap distrust, and that's a huge problem.
A white male who was dressed in a manner to protect his identity, was smashing windows. What has law enforcement done to follow-up on this, other than this tweet? I haven't heard anything.

[Nevilledog]

22. What's missing?

Any comment that they are investigating WHO the guy was breaking the windows.

[Sunsky]

23. Exactly.