Hundreds work to clean up Minneapolis after Floyd protests
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Hundreds of people came together to help clean up the community that has been burned following nights of unrest. 
MINNEAPOLIS — After rioting and fire tore through Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd in police custody, the community came together on Saturday to clean up burned buildings throughout the city.
Hundreds of people came together to clean the outside of a burned down Target across the street from the Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd Precinct station, as well as a post office and other locations in the Lake Street neighborhood where protests had taken place after Floyd's death.
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Volunteers even worked to put out a fire at a Wells Fargo building. The KARE11 team was at several cleanup sites in the city.
Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo on Saturday recognized the community members working to clean up the city and help out their neighbors.
"We are not going to let a group of people hijack this city. Hope is here," Chief Arradondo said. "Anyone who would set fire to a person's livelihood and business, they do not love this city."
To help curb more protests and fire, Gov. Walz and local leaders have issued curfews for most cities in the metro, requiring people be inside their homes after 8 p.m.
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Arradondo also made it clear during the press conference that anyone who is out past curfew standing near someone committing arson is complicit in harming the community.
Walz urged people to stay off the streets and stay home so that state and local law enforcement can target those committing violence.
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Protests erupted throughout the city for several days after Floyd, a black man, was killed by former Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, and has since been arrested and charged.
In a widely circulated cellphone video of the Minneapolis incident, Floyd can be seen on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back while Officer Chauvin presses him to the pavement with his knee on Floyd's neck. The video shows Chauvin holding Floyd down for minutes as Floyd complains he can't breathe.
Bystanders can be heard begging the officer to take his knee off Floyd's neck. The video ends with paramedics lifting a limp Floyd onto a stretcher and placing him in an ambulance.
Chauvin was charged on Friday with third degree murder, but they are continuing to review the evidence, and there may be subsequent charges later. He was also charged with second degree manslaughter.
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This is what Kathleen mentioned earlier. It is one of the bright spots in all of this.
There are others.
Thanks, Vic for your positive remark. Not only is it true, it is appreciated in these tough times.
Although the events of the last 3 days are awful, this is to show that people are still able to come together and literally pick up the pieces. It's good to see.
Good stuff.
Nice to see people of all colors working together for the good of everyone. Reminds me of this song from the 70's
i used to listen to that song
in color
Good one Iggy!
funny thing happened while i was protesting,
what a RIOT !
Well, let's not hope so in the future.
A/noon. Can never understand protestors setting fires and looting. Completely innocent peoples livelihoods have gone up in smoke and who is going to effect the most??...The people that live there. The elderly, disabled, young families and countless others. For many it maybe the closet they could walk to and now that convenience has gone for them, through complete idiots. Saw a Korean immigrant walking through what was left of his shop, he was in tears. In walks an African American and starts rifling through the remains. The shop keeper asked him to leave, he did, but even with the TV cameras there it did not seem to bother him...Just plain and simple heart break all around..Hopefully with many people willing to help clean up a small glimmer of hope arises. From little things, big things grow....
I totally agree with you shona. This whole event has been heartbreaking for all involved. So many cities ruined for no reason. It does leave one speechless.
Hopefully, tomorrow will bring a new day, and the riots will end, and rebuilding and mending will begin.
Sorry . As stupid as our country is, ii think it's gonna be a while, but , hopefully i'm wrong
Count your blessings that you live in a country where this kind of lunacy does not occur.
This had nothing to do with Mr. Floyd's death. That is just an excuse. The areas that were destroyed will not recover from this. The businesses destroyed won't be coming back. Many of the residents won't be coming back.
And who will the blame for that be placed on? It should be placed on the people who started the fires, attacked bystanders, looters (the people actually involved). But we know that won't happen. The blame will be erroneously placed on the police force.
And that is the thinking/mindset that will keep the fires burning. Until there is EQUAL justice by police and the district attorneys across this country, this tinderbox will remain.
And how does that justify burning down their own neighborhoods?
wasn't it more like three months ?
I understand the frustration. I don't understand the reaction. It should have been protested without the burnings.
Why don't you try hopes and prayers.....
It stopped being a protest at the first act of violence. Nothing that justifies what we are seeing across the country.
That sure is the narrative Ali Velshi was pushing last night on MSNBC. Kept saying over and over again the police fired without any warning. I guess he was too busy shining his head to hear the reporting all day long that the curfew would be enforced, there would be no opportunity of burning like the night before and the National guard numbers were doubled or tripled. That was your warning Ali, but like too many of the media today he wanted to be part of the story and not just report the facts. How many fires have to be lit before a protest becomes a riot? Maybe Ali should move back to Canada and get his old job at Al Jazeera America back.
I would agree with you halfway. Floyd's death triggered something. Maybe years of pent up injustice? Maybe groups who want to start something. We will know more in the days to come when this whole thing shakes out.
I don't understand burning down your own home. Looters always take advantage of a bad situation. But then again, I did see locals coming out and asking for people to stop.
Not sure what you mean by this. Floyd's death is on them (not all the police). But the other 3 cops have no charges and that is wrong, too.
You're right. Floyds death is on the police. But the riots are not. That falls directly on those participating.
It no longer became about Floyd's death once the riots started.