...excerpt from an account of mercenary activity against Floyd protests in Minneapolis in 2021:
"We are hearing about how the paramilitary private security people have attacked people in Uptown Minneapolis"A private security company with 'international mercenary' personnel that worked in Iraq and Libya""are treating Minneapolis residents like insurgents, per speaker who was harassed by them"The supervisor of the mercenaries in Uptown attacked local person Link when they asked for information about who is working there"Three people have been harassed and at least one person has traumatic brain injury inflicted by mercenaries with excessive force in Uptown Minneapolis"Hearing about violence by both police and private security personnel in Minneapolis"Witness describes being grabbed by a mercenary"[mercenary] Nathan Seabrook declared Minneapolis is a "shithole", comparing it to places he worked as a paramilitary mercenary like Libya on a podcast"The mercenaries appear to be operating a 'shadow fusion center' identifying and profiling protesters"MPD strategy may be "hiring people by proxy" to clamp down on protests; MPD has been "getting worse" since federal DOJ presence intensified in Minneapolis"The mercenaries are dangerous because they have no de-escalation strategy or relationship with the community"the private mercenary forces forced everyone out with five minutes notice in pre-dawn hours"mercenaries go behind people to prevent them from walking back to the public easement"Chemical weapons that would be impermissible in a theatre of war have been used on protesters in the Twin Cities..."