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Qué responder a "ESA NO MANERA DE PROTESTAR"

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Qué responder a "ESA NO MANERA DE PROTESTAR"

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A quick roundup of things to say to Saltine Americans clutching their pearls over rioting and looting:

1) "Rioting never solves anything!"

This country was founded on rioting (and looting). The colonists didn't politely ask to be independent - they started a war. Gays threw a brick. Black people rioted all over this country. Please let go of that falsehood and pick up a history book.

2) "Rioting just gives people a reason not to support your cause."

Only if you equate property damage to human lives, and in that case, were you really supporting our cause anyway? If all it takes is people stealing from Target for you to say "well...now I don't care about dead Black people" then why are we even speaking?

3) "The rioters are criminals and they don't even care about police brutality stuff."

There are criminals among us in every group, whether peaceful or violent, but the reasons riots break out are varied and complicated. Look at the pictures of Minneapolis before anyone ever threw a rock or started a fire or stole anything - the police firing rubber bullets and cans of tear gas into crowds of people who WERE peacefully protesting. What do you do when you're frustrated and upset and no one is listening to you? Better yet, what do you do when they're not only refusing to listen but actively trying to cause you physical harm to shut you up? Do you go home, stand there peacefully, or get mad and try to hurt them back? Does it really matter who you hurt at that point? Would you try to hurt someone in full tactical gear holding a weapon or would you try to hurt something like a multi-billion dollar business with insurance that probably contributed to the decimation of Mom & Pops in your community? Do you want to actually DIE in that moment or are you just upset and frustrated and at your breaking point and you want to smash something?

4) "Being frustrated is no reason to be violent."

Everybody reacts to stress differently. I have no desire to riot. That's not how my frustration at the world takes root. It doesn't manifest itself as a roiling mass of energy that needs to be released, but I can understand how it could in others. Look at the situation.

- We're in the middle of a global pandemic and many of the people on the front lines (making sure YOU can be comfortable at home) are Black people risking their lives for minimum wage, dealing with entitled white folks every single day.
- The virus itself is affecting Black people to a higher degree because we're denied access to health services and we're forced to WORK during it.
- Even in the middle of a pandemic when most of the country sat at home for weeks, civilians being murdered by police did not see a downward turn AT ALL. We're on track for the same number of deaths we saw last year.
- All week, every day, a new video of Racism in America. From white women using the police as their personal security service to elderly women being tackled by cops with guns drawn to another Black man who can't breathe, murdered by a cop who should've been fired a long time ago.

How do you feel about your country when people who look like you have to work through a pandemic, are dying in larger numbers from the disease, have the police called on them over a dog leash, are told they're trespassing on property they pay rent for, are brutalized by armies of cops, and are killed in broad daylight for the crime of jogging?

How do you feel? How would you react? Regardless of how you would react, how can you tell someone else how they should? People are ANGRY. They have a right to be angry. And I can't tell someone else how their anger should manifest. Because they are grown and TARGET HAS INSURANCE! I promise you Target will be just fine!

5) "Attacking an elderly disabled woman is a step too far!"

That woman is 30, she can walk just fine, and she went to Target armed with a knife to stab Black people. That's why WHITE PEOPLE unloaded a fire extinguiser at her - because she was a violent maniac. On one side, people stole stuff from a big box retailer. On the other, someone STABBED PEOPLE UNPROVOKED, and yet your concern is whether anybody successfully stole a TV?

6) "There are better ways..."

Keep working on those better ways. Don't let the riots stop you. Fight for criminal justice reform, fight for income equality, fight for universal healthcare, fight for free education, fight for higher taxes on the 1% - fight for all those things that would make rioting less likely. And while you're fighting the long, slow war toward Black people having a fair shot in this country, the same war we've been fighting for hundreds of years, there will be times when some people directly affected by the war see your actions as futile and they just wanna break some stuff. Clutch your pearls less and speed up the war if you're so offended by property damage.

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How to respond to "riots never solve anything!"

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A quick roundup of things to say to Saltine Americans clutching their pearls over rioting and looting: 1) "Rioting never solves anything!" This country was founded on rioting (and looting). The colonists didn't politely ask to be independent - they started a war. Gays threw a brick.

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Infiltración supremacista blanca en las fuerzas policiales

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Infiltración supremacista blanca en las fuerzas policiales

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Análisis del asesor de seguridad nacional O'Brien

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On Sunday morning, CNN's Jake Tapper asked President Trump's National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, whether he thinks "systemic racism" is a problem in law enforcement agencies in the United States. O'Brien responded: "I don't think there is systemic racism. I think 99.9 percent of our law enforcement officers are great Americans," said O'Brien. "But ... there's a few bad apples."

There are two flaws in O'Brien's response. First, O'Brien ignores the well-documented support by law enforcement officers of alt-right extremist ideology throughout the country. Second, O'Brien misunderstands the nature of systemic racism-a term that means that institutions we have in place produce racially disparate effects on minority populations-in his discussion of individual officers.

An FBI intelligence assessment-titled "White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement" and published in 2006 during the administration of President George W. Bush -raised alarm over white supremacist groups' interest in "infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel." The report, based on FBI investigations and open sources, warned, for example, that skinhead groups were actively encouraging their members to become "ghost skins" within law enforcement agencies, a term the report said white supremacists use to describe members who "avoid overt displays of their beliefs to blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes."

In 2015, a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide, obtained by The Intercept, stated that "domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have identified active links to law enforcement officers."

FBI Assessment 2006 White Supremacist Infiltration Law Enforcement by Just Security on Scribd

In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report on right-wing extremism and its relationship to "violent radicalization" in the United States. The report's principle researcher on the subject, Daryl Johnson, later told The Intercept:

"Federal law enforcement agencies in general - the FBI, the Marshals, the ATF - are aware that extremists have infiltrated state and local law enforcement agencies and that there are people in law enforcement agencies that may be sympathetic to these groups."

This may not be a coincidence.

An investigation published in 2019 by the Center for Investigative Reporting found that hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers are members of Confederate-sympathizing, anti-Islam, or anti-government militia groups on Facebook. Within these private groups, members often are openly racist. Police officers have also been linked to groups like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, who believe in defending white Americans from "enslavement" and are actively hostile to immigrants. The investigation identified active-duty and retired police officers as active members in explicitly racist Facebook groups such as "Veterans Against islamic Filth" (the group deliberately lowercases "Islamic" in its name) and "PURGE WORLDWIDE (The Cure for the Islamic disease in your country)."

The leader of the Oath Keepers movement, Stewart Rhodes, bragged in 2009 that his anti-government group includes "thousands of retired and active law enforcement officers." On May 30, during protests in New York City, a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer appears to have made a hand gesture that has been linked to white supremacist groups, which the New York Attorney General asked to be reported to her office.

Please report this and send the video to my office: Complaints@ag.ny.gov

- NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 31, 2020

The Plain View Project, a database of public Facebook comments made by nearly 2,900 current and former police officers in eight cities, suggested that nearly 1 in 5 of the current officers identified in the study made public posts or comments that appear "to endorse violence, racism and bigotry," as reported by Buzzfeed News and Injustice Watch in a study of the database. For example, there are 1269 identified problematic posts from active duty Philadelphia police officers on the site. Of the 1073 Philadelphia police officers identified by the Plain View Project, 327 of them posted public content endorsing violence, racism and bigotry. Of those 327, at least 64 hold leadership roles within the force, serving as corporals, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, or inspectors.

The history of racism and white supremacist membership in law enforcement agencies is long and well-documented. In the 1990s, a federal judge found that there was a "neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang" of Los Angeles police deputies - self-styled "the Vikings" - that existed with the knowledge of police department officials. In 2015 and 2016, the San Francisco police department attempted to fire at least 17 officers after investigations revealed they were sending racist text messages.

The Ku Klux Klan historically - and even in recent years - has had ties to local law enforcement. In 2014, a police department in Central Florida fired two officers, one of whom was the deputy police chief, for being members of the Ku Klux Klan (commendably, the information in that case came from the FBI via the Florida Department of Law Enforcement). In 2015, a North Carolina police officer was pictured giving a Nazi salute at a KKK rally.

The failure of police units to discipline police officers over allegations of excessive use of force and/or for racist behavior or actions is part and parcel of the systemic issues protesters have demonstrated over for many years and in recent days.

The officer charged with George Floyd's murder, Derek Chauvin, was the subject of at least 17 misconduct complaints prior to Floyd's death, almost all of which resulted in no discipline and the rest of which concluded with only a letter placed in his file. News reports say the nature of the complaints is unclear from the information the Minneapolis Police Department released, and that the department wouldn't provide details.

In 2018, Buzzfeed News reported that at least 319 NYPD employees committed offenses, including harassment and assault in some cases, that were sufficient cause for termination between 2011 and 2015, but for which they were not fired. "Thirty-eight were found guilty by a police tribunal of excessive force, getting into a fight, or firing their gun unnecessarily," according to the news outlet. Some officers who declined to be identified told Buzzfeed the internal investigations into the actions were "rife with favoritism, racism, and pressures to just plead guilty."

Disciplinary systems that struggle to hold officers to account for other offenses will similarly fail to remove racist police officers, undermining public trust in entire departments. In Chicago, according to the Citizens Police Data Project, only 7 percent of all police complaints have resulted in any disciplinary action, including allegations of police officers using racial slurs. In 2018, the chief of police in Elkhart, Indiana not only did not discipline an officer but promoted him to sergeant despite the officer "using police communications equipment to refer to white power," reports ProPublica.

Minneapolis Lieutenant Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, was previously a named defendant in a discrimination lawsuit brought by four black Minneapolis police officers against the Minneapolis Police Department for discrimination. In their complaint, the plaintiffs allege that the Lieutenant openly wore a "White Power badge" on his a motorcycle jacket. Kroll, who admits that he is sometimes called racist but rejects the characterization, has referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terrorist organization."

As further indication of the extent of racism within law enforcement, under the Obama administration,15 police departments across the United States entered into consent decrees for police reform, which are binding agreements on police to enact court-enforced reforms, such as "preventing discriminatory policing and excessive force," among other measures. The Justice Department report of its consent decree in Chicago, for instance, revealed that police department received over 30,000 complaints of officer misconduct in five years and determined that a "systematic pattern of excessive force within the Chicago Police Department has eroded trust among minority communities."

Notably, on March 31, 2017, Trump's former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered the Justice Department to review Obama-era consent decrees on police department reform and curbed their use by requiring political appointees on any future settlements. The Trump administration restriction on the use of the decrees was characterized as a transition away from protecting civil rights to promoting law and order. During his nomination hearings, Attorney General William Barr said he supported the Sessions' policy. To date, the Trump administration has not issued any new consent decrees against police forces within the United States.

Of course, clearly by no means all police units or all members of police forces in the United States are members of racist or white supremacist groups or support alt-right ideology. Notable examples of strong relations with citizens and community-led policing in response to this past week's protests include New Jersey police officers marching with Black Lives Matters protestors, the Dallas and Georgia's police chiefs listening to and walking with protestors, and police in both New York City and South Florida kneeling in solidarity with protestors. In Flint, Michigan, Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson removed his riot gear and walked with marchers.

Demonstrators & Police Chiefs from Miami Dade County kneel and say a prayer following the death of #GeorgeFloyd @wsvn #MiamiDade #7News #wsvn @OfficialJoelF pic.twitter.com/TurQB2C36y

- Franklin White (@FranklinWSVN) May 30, 2020

What's more, police officers are often threatened by white extremist groups, as reported by the and Department of Homeland Security.

But the term "systemic racism" does not mean that individuals who operate within the system are generally racists. Instead, it means the institutions we have in place produce racially disparate effects on minority populations. And, in that regard, there are well-documented empirical studies of systemic racism in law enforcement agencies-including the use of policies like stop and frisk and disparate rates of policing activities including traffic stops, searches of motorists during traffic stops, levels of respect shown during stops, misdemeanor arrests, marijuana arrests, use of SWAT teams, individuals jailed for inability to pay petty fines for moving violations, militarized policing of different neighborhoods, resolution of murders of white versus black victims, sustained complaints against police officers, and unarmed victims of police shootings.

The evidence of links to explicit white supremacist groups is surely only the tip of a racist iceberg. Other forms of racism that affect all our institutions-without sparing law enforcement agencies-include explicit and implicit racial bias. O'Brien's comments leave no assurance that he has a command of the facts or if he does that he is willing to acknowledge or seriously grapple with them.

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White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O'Brien

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On Sunday morning, CNN's Jake Tapper asked President Trump's National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, whether he thinks "systemic racism" is a problem in law enforcement agencies in the United States. O'Brien responded: "I don't think there is systemic racism. I think 99.9 percent of our law enforcement officers are great Americans," said O'Brien .

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"El FBI pide pruebas de individuos que inciten a la violencia durante la protesta, la gente responde enviando de vídeos de la policía"

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Los principales sindicatos de Minnesota piden la dimisión del teniente Bob Kroll como presidente del sindicato de la policía

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Los principales sindicatos de Minnesota piden la dimisión del teniente Bob Kroll como presidente del sindicato de la policía

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"What has happened over the last week and him asking for reinstatement of those four officers is just obscene," said McCarthy.

Education Minnesota, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals, AFSCME Council 5, SEIU Minnesota, and the Minnesota Nurses Association have now all issued their own statements in support of the AFL-CIO.

"We believe there needs to be an end to the systemic racism that seems to be permeated, pervasive within the Minneapolis Police Department," said Bernadine Engeldorf, the first vice president of Minnesota Nurses Association. "We believe this is a public health issue that we have an obligation to speak out against. [...] We see it in our hospitals, we see the results of assaults by law enforcement, and we see the results of racism within our own facilities."

She said many nurses have been out providing medical aid to protesters and helping with cleanup efforts.

"They also live in these neighborhoods, we have hospitals right there in the neighborhood and we have great concern about overall effect on our communities," said Engeldorf.

In the hours after the video of George Floyd's death became public, Kroll issued a statement asking the community not to rush to judgment and let the investigation be completed. He hasn't released another statement to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS since.

Kroll also did not reply to multiple requests for comment on Wednesday or the many other requests made over the last week.

On Monday, former Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau tweeted a copy of, and criticized, a letter that appears to be from Kroll.

The letter commends officers for their bravery during the unrest.

It goes on to say, "What has been very evident throughout this process is you have a lack of support from the top. This terrorist movement that is currently occurring was a long time build up which dates back years. Starting with minimizing the size of our police force and diverting funds to community activist with anti-police agenda."

The letter also said the four officers involved in George Floyd's death were terminated without due process and he's working with their attorneys to fight for their jobs.

Kroll has been reelected as president several times. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has been told he will be up for reelection in 2021 or 2022.

"I call upon the ranks of the Minneapolis Police Department to ask for his resignation," said McCarthy. "I think his own members should ask for his resignation."

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reached out to Mayor Jacob Frey for his response.

Frey said, "Bob Kroll's resignation from the department alone wouldn't heal the divide between our community and our police department. However, if he tendered his resignation, the City would certainly accept it."

The Minneapolis Police Department is not commenting.

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Major unions in Minnesota call for Lt. Bob Kroll to resign as president of police union

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"What has happened over the last week and him asking for reinstatement of those four officers is just obscene," said McCarthy. Education Minnesota, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals, AFSCME Council 5, SEIU Minnesota, and the Minnesota Nurses Association have now all issued their own statements in support of the AFL-CIO.

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Policía identificado como instigador en los disturbios

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Policía identificado como instigador en los disturbios

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Jacob Pederson, policía de St Paul, fue identificado por diferentes fuentes como el hombre que aparece en un vídeo viral rompiendo ventanas en una tienda de Minneapolis. El departamento de policía lo niega, su expareja lo reconoció a raíz de las imágenes.

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Nationwide - Jacob Pederson, a police officer of the St. Paul Police Department, has been identified by some sources as the man in a viral video who is seen vandalizing and smashing store windows in Minneapolis. The police department, however, is denying that the man in the video is one of their own.

They have released a statement to the media saying:
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 want to be perfectly clear about this: The person in the video is not our officer. Our officer has been working hard, serving his community, keeping people and property safe, and protecting the right to peacefully assemble. It's unfortunate that people would post and share this untrue information, adding more confusion to an already painful time in our community.
Social media, however, has a different take and many are convinced that the man in the video is indeed Officer Jacob Pederson. Some who were on the scene even recognized him, and many are questioning if he was also involved in setting buildings on fire in the city.

A woman claiming to be his ex-wife has even come forward saying that she is 90% sure that it's him, and that she recognizes the gas mask and gloves he was wearing.

Mainstream media has shown mostly African Americans looting, vandalizing and violently protesting, but this footage paints a different picture.

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Man Who Vandalized Stores in Minneapolis Appears to Be Police Officer Jacob Pederson

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Jacob Pederson, a police officer of the St. Paul Police Department, has been identified by some sources as the man in a viral video who is seen vandalizing and smashing store windows in Minneapolis. The police department, however, is denying that the man in the video is one of their own.

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Hombre blanco de Illinois trae, presuntamente, bombas para iniciar disturbios en la protesta de George Floyd en Minneapolis

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Hombre blanco de Illinois trae, presuntamente, bombas para iniciar disturbios en la protesta de George Floyd en Minneapolis

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A white man from Illinois is facing federal charges after he allegedly traveled to Minneapolis with bombs, encouraged protesters to throw them at law enforcement, and looted businesses - all with the goal of "starting a riot."

Matthew Lee Rupert, 28, of Galesburg, Illinois, was taken into custody on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. He's been charged with civil disorder, possession of unregistered explosives, and participating in and organizing riots. He's the first person to face federal charges in connection to the fiery protests that have roiled Minneapolis since George Floyd, a black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.

Rupert's arrest also offers some support to local officials' claims that outside agitators may be partially responsible for the violence that has accompanied some protests in Minneapolis.

The federal complaint against Rupert cites videos that he live-streamed on Facebook in which he brags about renting hotel rooms in Minneapolis and rioting. In one video cited in the complaint, Rupert is allegedly seen handing out explosives and encouraging protesters to throw them at police.
READ: Far-right extremists are hoping to turn the George Floyd protests into a new civil war.
"They got SWAT trucks up there," he's heard saying, according to the complaint. "I've got bombs if some of you all want to throw them back... Bomb them back... Here, I got some more... Light it and throw it."

On May 30, he traveled to Chicago, the complaint says, and wrote about plans to riot and loot there. He was arrested in the early hours of Sunday.

Rupert has a criminal record: In 2016 he was charged with threatening a public official and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Cover: A Knox County Jail mugshot.

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A White Man From Illinois Allegedly Brought Bombs to Start a Riot at the Minneapolis George Floyd Protest

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A white man from Illinois is facing federal charges after he allegedly traveled to Minneapolis with bombs, encouraged protesters to throw them at law enforcement, and looted businesses - all with the goal of "starting a riot." Matthew Lee Rupert, 28, of Galesburg, Illinois, was taken into custody on Monday, according to the U.S.

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Trump dice que incluirá a los grupos antifascistas en la lista de organizaciones terroristas

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Trump dice que incluirá a los grupos antifascistas en la lista de organizaciones terroristas

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Trump busca responsabilizar a los colectivos antifascistas (principalmente blancos) de los disturbios. Sin embargo, los colectivos negros reivindican su protagonismo en los disturbios.

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El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha anunciado que incluirá a las organizaciones autodenominadas antifascistas -"antifa", según el presidente- en la lista de organizaciones terroristas como represalia por los disturbios ocurridos en las dos últimas noches durante las protestas por el homicidio durante una detención del ciudadano afroamericano George Floyd.

"Estados Unidos de América va a designar a los antifa como Organización Terrorista", ha publicado Trump en su cuenta oficial en Twitter.

El mandatario estadounidense ha felicitado además a la Guardia Nacional "por su gran trabajo" en su despliegue en Minieápolis, donde se produjo la muerte de Floyd y epicentro de las protestas que han prendido en multitud de ciudades del país.

"Felicidades a nuestra Guardia Nacional por el gran trabajo que hizo inmediatamente a su llegada a Mineápolis, Minesota, anoche. Los ANTIFA (antifascistas) lideraron a los anarquistas, entre otros, fueron bloqueados rápido. ¡Debería haberlo hecho el Alcalde la primera noche y no hubiera habido problemas!", apuntó.

Trump ha advertido así a "otras ciudades y estados gobernados por los demócratas" del "cierre total que impusieron anoche en Mineápolis los anarquistas de la izquierda radical". "¡La Guardia Nacional hizo un gran trabajo y debería ser empleada en otros estados antes de que sea demasiado tarde!", ha remachado.

Carga contra los medios por "fomentar el odio"

Además, Trump ha responsabilizado a los medios de comunicación de fomentar el odio. "Los Medios de Comunicación Parciales están haciendo todo lo posible para fomentar el odio y la anarquía. ¡Así como todo el mundo entiende lo que están haciendo, que son NOTICIAS FALSAS y gente mala de verdad con una agenda enfermiza, podemos trabajar fácilmente más allá de ellos a través de la GRANDEZA!", dijo Trump en Twitter.

La muerte esta semana de George Floyd en Mineápolis tras pasarse casi nueve minutos con su cuello aprisionado por la rodilla del agente de Policía Derek Chauvin ha desatado protestas, disturbios y saqueos en la ciudad más poblada del estado de Minesota, ahora bajo estado de emergencia.

A lo largo de las noches del viernes y del sábado se han registrado protestas y disturbios en una treintena de ciudades del país, que se han saldado con tres muertos y cientos de detenidos.

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Trump dice que incluirá a los grupos antifascistas en la lista de organizaciones terroristas

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El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha anunciado que incluirá a las organizaciones autodenominadas antifascistas -"antifa", según el presidente- en la lista de organizaciones terroristas como represalia por los disturbios ocurridos en las dos últimas noches durante las protestas por el homicidio durante una detención del ciudadano afroamericano George Floyd.

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El gobernador de Minnesota y los alcaldes culpan a los agitadores de fuera del estado por la violencia y la destrucción

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El gobernador de Minnesota y los alcaldes culpan a los agitadores de fuera del estado por la violencia y la destrucción

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Los colectivos negros denuncian a lxs instigadorxs, pero también reclaman los disturbios como modo legítimo de protesta del cual son protagonistas conscientes. Sin embargo, los alcaldes de Minneapolis y su vecina Saint Paul han intentado otorgar a lxs instigadorxs un protagonismo que no les corresponde: son una minoría violenta, pero no son, ni mucho menos,  el grueso de las manifestaciones o de las personas implicadas en los disturbios.

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Governors and mayors in states across the country where protests flared Friday night say a small number of demonstrators, and in some cases out-of-state agitators, are responsible for escalating the events with violence and property damage.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the protesters "are coming in largely from outside of the city, from outside of the region, to prey on everything we have built over the last several decades."

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said every person who was arrested in the city Friday night was from out of state. "We don't know these folks," he said.

Carter later had to walk back his comments, saying he later learned the arrest data was "inaccurate." But he wasn't the only official in the state who blamed the violence on outsiders.

"Last night is a mockery of pretending this is about George Floyd's death or inequities or historical traumas to communities of color," said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday. He estimated as much as 80 percent of those destroying property in the cities were not locals.

The Star Tribune reported that officials made 40 arrests Friday night in the Twin Cities primarily for burglary, breaking curfew and destruction of property, and that the local jail log showed people booked from Illinois, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Alaska.

Other local reports put the number between 36 and 69 - and note their investigations into the matter do not support the assertions of local officials.

According to reporting by Theo Keith at Minneapolis's Fox 9, 84 percent of those arrested had local addresses; Brandon Stahl of the city's KARE 11 reports 86 percent of those arrested Friday night (and Saturday morning) were local. John Elder, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis police department, told both outlets his department has found that arrested people often give false addresses, and that preliminary investigations have revealed arrest records in other states for a number of those currently in custody.

Walz has promised the data analyzed by state officials to arrive at the conclusions shared during the conference will be made public. It's not yet clear whether such data could explain the discrepancy.

Concerns over violence come as Minnesota prepares to increase National Guard presence

Officials' comments came as the state prepares to deploy the full Minnesota National Guard, which law enforcement has said would be the first time such action has been taken since World War II. Seven hundred soldiers had already been deployed in the cities and another 1,000 are expected.

Thousands of demonstrators have protested peacefully in the Twin Cities since Monday, when Floyd was killed by former police officer Derek Chauvin during an arrest in Minneapolis. Chauvin handcuffed and pinned Floyd down over reported suspicions Floyd passed a counterfeit $20 bill, with the incident recorded and shared widely on social media. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck, holding him to the ground, as he struggled and yelled, "I can't breathe." Onlookers begged Chauvin and three other former officers on the scene to relent as Floyd became unresponsive and was later pronounced dead.

Protesters in Minneapolis and around the country have marched peacefully following Floyd's death, chanting some of Floyd's final words, "I can't breathe," and holding signs demanding an end to police brutality.

But in many cities, protests have devolved into violent clashes with police who have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, burning and breaking into buildings, and destroying police cars. A top public safety official in Minneapolis estimated Saturday that tens of thousands of people have been involved in the protests that have overwhelmed local police forces.

During large protests like those unfolding in Minneapolis, it's not uncommon for actors with different agendas to take advantage of chaotic moments.

As Jason Johnson, a politics and journalism professor at Morgan State University, argued, anarchists and "opportunistic criminals" often take advantage of these moments to break into stores or sow chaos.

They are usually dwarfed by peaceful protesters who march to demand action against longstanding issues with racial bias from police and can be differentiated from people he described as "revolutionaries" who target places like police precincts and big-box stores that can be symbols of oppression. Fires can also be started by police, whose tear gas canisters can remain hot for hours after they've been launched, and who have thrown emergency flares.

The protests over Floyd's death have once again sparked conversation over what is the right way to protest and what will actually cause change. However they proceed, protesters in Minneapolis and elsewhere will likely continue to take to the streets to express pent-up anger over long-term racial disparities in treatment from law enforcement as systemic problems persist.

Update, May 31, 1 am ET: This article has been updated with St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter's comments revising his earlier assertion on out-of-state arrests.
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Minnesota governor and mayors blame out-of-state agitators for violence and destruction

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Governors and mayors in states across the country where protests flared Friday night say a small number of demonstrators, and in some cases out-of-state agitators, are responsible for escalating the events with violence and property damage.

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Tamika Mallory subtitulada en español.

Sobre violencia en los disturbios, violencia policial y violencia institucional.

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Tamika Mallory durante protestas en Minnesota [subtitulado en español]

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Jessica Garraway expone en facebook que los culpables de los disturbios no son los anarquistas, si no la policía y los supremacistas blancos. Los primeros causando momentos de tensión para justificar las cargas policiales y los segundos, acudiendo desde otros estados para aprovechar el clima caótico para disparar sin reparo. A la afirmación “[los grupos anarquistas]... son los que están causando los disturbios” responde “en primer lugar, la actuación de la policía fue la causa del inicio de las protestas, por lo que ellos son inequívocamente los responsables” y, añade, “la rabia y la reacción de la gente negra que sale a protestar es real y legítima e intentar negarlas con frases como “es todo responsabilidad de agitadores externos” les quita la agencia de sus reclamos y su poder”.

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Por otro lado, las comunidades de Minneapolis denuncian  destrozos a pequeños comercios propiedad de personas negras, así como agresiones e intentos de asesinato por parte de supremacistas blancos. Estas agresiones se han dado ante la pasividad policial, probablemente, debido a las conexiones entre la policía y los grupos de extrema derecha. Sin ir más lejos, el presidente del sindicato mayoritario de policía de Minneapolis es conocido por promover la violencia policial contra las comunidades racializadas.

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Durante estas semanas, personas organizadas, pertenecientes a grupos violentos de extrema derecha han estado presentes en los disturbios. Por un lado, han incitado a la violencia, probablemente con la intención de criminalizar las protestas y de desvirtuar el movimiento, de crear confusión sobre el significado de los disturbios. Tamika Mallory no lo puede expresar mejor “No nos desafíen cuando la gente joven y otra gente que está frustrada e instigada por gente pagada por ustedes. Ustedes están pagando instigadorxs para que estén entre nuestra gente tirando piedras, partiendo vidrios y quemando edificios. Así que lxs jóvenes están reaccionando, están enfurecidos”.

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