“The city of Minneapolis will pay more than $700,000 to resolve complaints over excessive force by police during protests over the death of George Floyd,” CBS News reported.
According to Daniel Horowitz of The Blaze, the city council unanimously voted “to pay 12 rioters $700,000 for being sprayed with pepper spray.”
City council members approved four separate settlements, with the largest award issued to a group of 11 Minnesotans and one Iowa resident.
Despite the obvious destruction caused by the BLM riots following George Floyd’s death, mainstream media still clings to the ‘peaceful protest’ narrative.
“Their class action lawsuit in federal court accused Minneapolis police of targeting them with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray as they peacefully protested Floyd’s murder,” CBS News added.
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From CBS News:
Most of the plaintiffs were marching along the Interstate 35W bridge on May 31, 2020, when a semitrailer drove into a large crowd.
Although nobody was seriously hurt, the suit alleges that police did not seek to discover if anyone was injured and focused on the safety of the truck driver.
“In other blatant displays of excessive force, captured on video, MPD officers can be seen spraying tear gas and pepper spray indiscriminately out of their squad car windows while driving through peaceful protests,” according to a 60-page civil suit.
The council unanimously voted to award $50,000 to each named plaintiff in the case.
Daniel Horowitz of The Blaze provided additional context:
These individuals were part of a massive mob that illegally shut down I-35 on a west-side bridge on May 31, 2020, and then surrounded a trucker and almost lynched him. Police were saving the life of the trucker and obviously used riot control techniques to disperse the crowd. But in the world of Sodom and Gomorrah, otherwise known as “Minnesota nice,” these rioters and lynchers are victims.
What has essentially been codified into criminal law in this country is that acts of violence in pursuit of the woke agenda are protected speech, while speech and advocacy or nonviolent acts of conservative activism are deemed violent felonies. It was striking watching Whoopi Goldberg during her debate with Senator Ted Cruz when he brought up the violence of Antifa after she asserted that the left doesn’t “storm” or commit violence. She looked at him like he was from Mars and said flatly, “I don’t know what an Antifa riot is.”
While most people probably thought she was bluffing, I genuinely think she was serious. In her mind, nothing the leftist rioters did is tantamount to violence because it was all done for the right purpose. In fact, we should be lucky all white people weren’t locked up and beaten out of their cars in pursuit of “justice for Floyd.” It would be one thing if this demonic worldview were limited to hack has-been TV personalities past their prime, but this is the sentiment of elected officials and judges.
Here’s the exchange between Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Cruz Horowitz references:
Horowitz also compared the settlements awarded to these rioters versus the punishments received by J6 protestors:
Contrast this to Matthew Bledsoe, who was just sentenced to four full years for scaling the wall of the Capitol, entering the building for 22 minutes, and shouting, “This is our house. We pay for this s***. Where’s those pieces of s*** at?” He didn’t burn, break, or steal anything. The judge didn’t sympathize with his grievance and note that he never had a criminal record and just made a mistake that day. “I do view this as a very serious case, and you are facing serious prison time,” said Judge Beryl Howell in rebuffing Bledsoe’s apology on sentencing day.
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