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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHOLY SHIT, there were violent protests in Fargo, North Dakota.
The murder of Floyd was a game changer. When you see people in Fargo protesting, that means protests are happening every where across the country.
underpants
(182,585 posts)Not that Ive ever been there
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)which means some people there are keeping track of what's going on.
underpants
(182,585 posts)Kick ass football program too
Initech
(100,029 posts)Really, it is happening all over the country. This is 1992 all over again. The only difference, in 1992 we had a real president. Now we don't.
woodsprite
(11,902 posts)2naSalit
(86,308 posts)and serious oppression of the indigenous people of whom there are many in the state.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Good read!
Thirty-five years ago, a manhunt that drew widespread attention across the Upper Midwest and nationwide came to a bloody conclusion in a shootout at a home in the rolling hills of rural Arkansas.
Gordon Kahl, a decorated World War II veteran turned tax protestor and member of the anti-federal government Posse Comitatus, was wanted for murder following another shootout that left two U.S. Marshals dead outside Medina, North Dakota. He was killed in an exchange of gunfire with authorities, who had tracked him to the residence near Smithville, Arkansas.
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Kahl was connected to anti-govt fringe groups in Arkansas & Texas... I don't think there was a massive
presence in ND other than the John Birchers who also hated the US govt, but that is where the FBI tracked him & where 2 agents were murdered, thus giving Kahl his claim to fame.
ND has had its share of anti-govt, anti-democracy fringe groups
Quite a story
oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)I had to remind myself that North Dakota isn't a Canadian province.
paleotn
(17,876 posts)Wow. My wife has a friend and colleague up there. They say nothing ever happens in ND.
rurallib
(62,373 posts)FARGO, N.D. (AP) Business people and dozens of volunteers began filing into downtown Fargo at dawn Sunday to asses the damage and to clean up after a night of sometimes violent protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.
The protest in North Dakota's largest city started Saturday with a peaceful march that wound through the city and included parents pushing strollers and teenagers riding skateboards in a tribute to Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died Monday after a white police officer used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the ground for several minutes while Floyd pleaded for air and eventually stopped moving.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-dakota/articles/2020-05-31/fargo-cleans-up-after-peaceful-floyd-protest-turns-to-unrest%3fcontext=amp
Wow. This is one of the most racist Red States too.
At least the Eastern border still shows their humanity.
Thanks. This is ecouraging!
TheBlackAdder
(28,163 posts).
Not all PD are, some want to do good, but a great deal want to have power over others and demand respect.
Most power & respect were denied to them in childhood, others are just sociopaths.
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dalton99a
(81,386 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Kudos to the girl that captured the murder on video & sent it out for all to see.
elleng
(130,714 posts)kozar
(2,076 posts)So I do feel qualified to say HOLY SHIT! I talk to my mother daily,who still lives there, and I ask if she is staying in( she won't) is she wearing a mask (she is) and then listen how she tells me protests and things have never happen or happened in ND, not even during the war,she says. SO yep, shockey,,HOLY SHIT!
Koz
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)elleng
(130,714 posts)followed by violence fomented by someones, by any chance? I haven't read 'news,' just wondering.
Blue Owl
(50,238 posts)n/t