HOLY SHIT, there were violent protests in Fargo, North Dakota.

[shockey80]

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]

1. That is a HOLY SHIT

Not that I’ve ever been there

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's kind of the ass-end of nowhere, but it's a college town

which means some people there are keeping track of what's going on.

[underpants]

12. That's true

Kick ass football program too

[Initech]

3. And Chump is blaming the "democrat mayors".

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]

4. Isn't ND home to a good number of militias? nt

[2naSalit]

11. Yes...

and serious oppression of the indigenous people of whom there are many in the state.

[Budi]

13. Yes. Gordon Kahl 1983 Posse Comitatus & the FBI shooting

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

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.
MORE...

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]

5. That is crazy

I had to remind myself that North Dakota isn't a Canadian province.

[paleotn]

6. Fargo?!

Wow. My wife has a friend and colleague up there. They say nothing ever happens in ND.

[rurallib]

7. And I thought Salt Lake City was about as unexpected as it would go

[Budi]

8. Wow!

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]

9. People are sick of this shit. Everyone knows that authoritarians are drawn to being Police Officers.

.

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.

.

[dalton99a]

10. Indeed

[Budi]

14. Thanks for the pics. Everybody saw what happened & we're all appalled

Kudos to the girl that captured the murder on video & sent it out for all to see.

[elleng]

18. Thanks

[kozar]

15. I grew up in ND,

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]

16. and salt lake city Utah. Overwhelming white crowd burned police car and graffitied the capital

[elleng]

17. Protest against the murder,

followed by violence fomented by someones, by any chance? I haven't read 'news,' just wondering.

[Blue Owl]

19. Fargo is woke!

n/t