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‘We’re Going to Hunt’: Bodycam Footage Shows Minneapolis Cops Describe Being ‘Out Hunting,’ Linking ‘Looting’ with Race During George Floyd Protests
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials...oting-with-race-during-george-floyd-protests/
I wonder why people are calling for defunding the Minneapolis police
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials...oting-with-race-during-george-floyd-protests/
I wonder why people are calling for defunding the Minneapolis police
An investigation is underway after a commander and lieutenant with the Minneapolis Police Department were recorded on body-worn camera footage describing “hunting” people and suggesting white people do not engage in looting during Black Lives Matter demonstrators at the height of protests in response to the killing of George Floyd last spring.
In one of the videos, captured five days after Floyd’s murder, MPD Lieutenant Johnny Mercil allegedly responds to another officer’s offer to “flank” racial justice protesters by implying that only non-white people were responsible for widespread theft and property damage.
“I got no problem with that; I’d love to scatter ’em but it’s time to fuckin’ put people in jail and just prove the mayor wrong about this ‘white supremacists from out-of-state,'” the lieutenant said, apparently in reference to disproven comments made by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (DFL). “Although this group probably is predominantly white, because there’s not looting and fire.”
An off-camera officer responds to the race-based commentary by saying: “They’re from Minneapolis and they’re all white.”
“It’s nice to hear for–that we’ve moved to–tonight it was just nice to hear ‘We’re gonna go find some more people,’” the commander says. “Instead of chasing people around, we’re going to hunt. You guys are out hunting people now. It’s just a nice change of tempo.”