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Law Firm Accused of Firing Pro-Trump Partners and Employees

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Three former employees of a Minneapolis law firm are alleging that the firm’s president wrongfully fired them due to his belief that they were supporters of former President Trump.

William Kain, Margaret Henehan and Kelsey Quarberg, who were all partners at St.Cloud-based Kain and Scott law firm, filed a lawsuit against law firm president Wesley Scott alleging that he sought to fire employees he believed shared pro-Trump posts on social media, according to the Star Tribune.

The outlet reported that Scott is accused of telling the law firm’s operation manager to fire two employees he deemed to be racist because they were Trump supporters. When she refused, Scott fired her as well as another employee, the suit claims.

Kain, Henehan and Quarberg allege in the lawsuit that Scott’s actions came as a result of his outrage over the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Scott is also accused of calling the police to remove Quarberg from the building and telling other employees that the partners were violating “everything that is dear to us and I won’t let that happen,” The Associated Press reported. (Read more from “Law Firm Accused of Firing Pro-Trump Partners and Employees” HERE)

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WATCH: Riots Start Again In Minneapolis After U.S. Marshals Shooting

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Rioters in Minneapolis were seen looting and setting a dumpster ablaze Thursday night after agents with the U.S. Marshals Service fatally shot a suspect.

At around 2:10 p.m., law enforcement tried to apprehend a suspect who was wanted for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The individual was shot dead after he allegedly refused to obey commands and drew a handgun.

Protesters gathered in the area hours after the encounter and were observed putting up barricades and lighting a dumpster on fire at around 10 p.m.

Other footage showed rioters smashing the windows of a T-Mobile store and ransacking the inside.

(Read more from “WATCH: Riots Start Again In Minneapolis After U.S. Marshals Shooting” HERE)

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105-Year-Old Catholic Church Goes Up in Flames Miles Away From Minneapolis Protests

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A Minneapolis Catholic Church was heavily damaged in a fire Monday evening as protests took place throughout the city ahead of a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd.

Videos posted online show the fire roaring through the roof of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Northeast Minneapolis, about a 13 minute drive from where a mostly peaceful protest took place Monday night, according to local reporter Ryan Raiche.

Raiche’s photographs show smoke billowing away from the building and firefighters battling the blaze. The cause of the fire is being investigated, and it is unclear whether it is related to the protests.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday that ATF certified fire investigators responded to the scene with Minneapolis Fire Department, noting that this is standard procedure for houses of worship.

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Veteran Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright Was Training Rookie; Biden: ‘No Justification For Looting, Violence’ Amid Protests

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By Washington Examiner. The police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright at a traffic stop on Sunday in a Minneapolis suburb was training a junior officer at the time.

The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association revealed that Kimberly Potters, the police officer who can be seen on video shooting Wright when she said she believed she was using a Taser, had a rookie officer riding alongside her.

“She’s just a very dedicated, passionate, good person. It’s completely devastating,” officers association head Brian Peters said. “In a very tense moment, she made a mistake. It’s not her character.”

Potters was a police officer for 26 years before being placed on administrative leave for her role in Wright’s death. (Read more from “Veteran Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright Was Training Rookie” HERE)

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Biden: ‘No Justification For Looting, Violence’ Amid Protests

By Newsweek. President Joe Biden made a brief statement on the unrest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota sparked by the fatal police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright while meeting with a bipartisan group of Congress members to discuss the administration’s infrastructure and jobs plan on Monday. Biden said that peaceful protests were “understandable,” but there was “no justification” for looting and violence that was seen on Sunday night.

Wright, a Black man, died Sunday after he was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb. Outrage quickly gripped the city in the wake of the shooting, with many gathering to hold peaceful protests against the police. However, many also turned to looting, vandalizing dozens of stores in Brooklyn Center and the surrounding areas.

“I want to make it clear again: there is absolutely no justification—none—for looting. No justification for violence. Peaceful protest? Understandable,” Biden told reporters on Monday in response to the situation. (Read more from “Biden: ‘No Justification For Looting, Violence’ Amid Protests” HERE)

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WATCH: National Guard Deployed In Minneapolis After Fatal Police Shooting

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The National Guard was deployed in Minneapolis as hundreds of people looted and rioted into the early hours Monday after a black man was shot dead while trying to flee arrest less than 10 miles from where George Floyd died.

The National Guard was deployed in Minneapolis as hundreds of people looted and rioted into the early hours Monday after a black man was shot dead while trying to flee arrest less than 10 miles from where George Floyd died.

The fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center came as the Twin Cities was already in a state of high alert over the trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin, charged with Floyd’s murder last May.

Wright, who had an outstanding warrant, had been pulled over around 2 p.m. Sunday — and was shot after jumping back in his car and trying to race away, crashing to a stop after driving several blocks, police said. (Read more from “WATCH: National Guard Deployed In Minneapolis After Fatal Police Shooting” HERE)

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Minneapolis City Council, Which Voted to Dismantle Police, Unsettled by Rise of Crime and Demand Action From Law Enforcement

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Minneapolis City Council members, who recently voted to defund the police department, demanded answers from the city’s police chief for the recent uptick in crime.

“What I am sort of flabbergasted by right now is colleagues, who a very short time ago were calling for abolition, are now suggesting we should be putting more resources and funding into MPD,” Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham, who supported defunding the department, said during a police reform meeting Tuesday.

The council took more than $1 million from the police budget this summer to hire “violence interrupters,” who are supposed to defuse potentially violent situations instead of police officers. The impetus for the policy came in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, sparking protests all over the country.

In June, the council voted unanimously to dismantle the police department in favor of a “Department of Community Safety.” That plan was delayed in August when the Minneapolis Charter Commission voted to take more time to review the plan.

According to Minneapolis Police Department crime data, violent crimes such as assaults, robberies, and homicides are up in 2020. In August, the city passed the grim milestone of seeing more homicides in 2020 than in all of 2019. Arsons are also up 55%. (Read more from “Minneapolis City Council, Which Voted to Dismantle Police, Unsettled by Rise of Crime and Demand Action From Law Enforcement” HERE)

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Looting Breaks Out in Minneapolis After Homicide Suspect Commits Suicide (VIDEO)

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Groups of people looted multiple stores in downtown Minneapolis. This happened after a homicide suspect took his own life on Nicollet Mall, according to Minneapolis police.

Social media posts show images of people damaging items in a Target as well as broken windows of surrounding stores. Haskell’s liquor store, the Medical Arts building and Nordstrom were also looted earlier in the evening.

Later Wednesday, people were seen looting a Saks Off 5th location until police dispersed the crowd with tear gas.

According to Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell, law enforcement are working to restore the calm in the downtown. Schnell said people have thrown bottles and set off commercial grade fireworks and there have been reports of shots fired. . .

“We’ve got cops from all over the Twin Cities coming out here to maintain order because the citizens of Minneapolis and Hennepin County deserve to feel safe,” said Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson. “The people causing problems are going to go to jail tonight.” (Read more from “Looting Breaks Out in Minneapolis After Homicide Suspect Commits Suicide (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Private Security Given to Minneapolis City Council Members Who Support Defunding the Police

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Minneapolis is spending $4,500 a day on private security for three city council members who support defunding the police after allegedly receiving threats, a local report published Friday showed.

Private security details cost Minneapolis taxpayers roughly $63,000 over the past three weeks, a spokesman for the city said, according to a Fox 9 report. Council members Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham and Alondra Cano are outspoken supporters of efforts to defund the Minneapolis Police Department, the report stated. . .

Cunningham did respond to Fox 9’s request for comment, telling the outlet through a text message that, “I don’t feel comfortable publicly discussing the death threats against me or the level of security I currently have protecting me from those threats.” The security detail is temporary, he noted.

Jenkins said she has been asking for security since she became a council member.

“My concern is the large number of white nationalist(s) in our city and other threatening communications I’ve been receiving,” she wrote in an email to FOX 9. (Read more from “Private Security Given to Minneapolis City Council Members Who Support Defunding the Police” HERE)

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Going All-In: Minneapolis City Council Considers Disbanding Entire Police Force

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Once you understand the larger objectives, everything becomes a sequence of predictable events. The term “community policing” has been used for several years by groups advocating for radical changes to law enforcement; however, behind the innocuous phrase is really a much more serious agenda.

If each community can determine the enforcement of law, then essentially all communities can eliminate the underlying law itself. Remove local enforcement of law and the local community can independently assemble a social structure separate from all other binding contracts that frame a larger societal compact. [Brian Fallon Tweet Link]

This “community policing” process is already taking place in many European communities the results create what are known as “no go zones.” Neighborhoods, and entire parts of cities, where local Sharia compliance enforcement officers have replaced the police force; and the rules, regulations and enforcement are detached from the larger social compact. Considering that Minneapolis has a large concentration of Somali Muslims within the local population, it makes sense this approach is now discussed for their city.

Minneapolis – […] Now the council members are listening to a city that is wounded, angry, fed up with decades of violence disproportionately visited upon black and brown residents. Various private and public bodies – from First Avenue to Minneapolis Public Schools – have essentially cut ties with the police department. Council members are trying to figure out what their next move is.

Their discussion is starting to sound a little more like what groups like Reclaim the Block and the Black Visions Collective have been saying for years. On Tuesday, Fletcher published a lengthy Twitter thread saying the police department was “irredeemably beyond reform,” and a “protection racket” that slows down responses as political payback.

“Several of us on the council are working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity,” he wrote. (read more)

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the man now in charge of the prosecution of Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s death, is a very well known Muslim activist and supporter of the sharia doctrine.

There is no better confluence of timing, location, and sentiment to achieve the agenda of the far-left than right now – with the opportunity George Floyd represents. (For more from the author of “Going All-In: Minneapolis City Council Considers Disbanding Entire Police Force” please click HERE)

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