by Alpha News Staff
Far-left Antifa radicals vandalized businesses and blocked traffic with barricades during a two-hour march down Lake Street in Minneapolis Friday night.
The march was infiltrated by independent photojournalist Rebecca Brannon, who said that Antifa-affiliated accounts had been posting about the “direct action” all week.
Protest march ongoing near E Lake Street and Nicollet Ave: pic.twitter.com/fZJU7hFmmu
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) February 12, 2022
Brannon reports that a helicopter was circling overhead the entire time, but no police ever showed up during the two-hour occupation.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492371205717909505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492371205717909505%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fantifa-vandalizes-businesses-blocks-traffic-during-lake-street-march%2F
Several businesses were vandalized and traffic was blocked in both directions, Brannon reports.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492376333413924867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492376333413924867%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fantifa-vandalizes-businesses-blocks-traffic-during-lake-street-march%2F
The mass vandalism event was organized in response to the death of Amir Locke, a 22-year-old who was shot and killed during a SWAT team raid in Minneapolis last week.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492385922465386508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492385922465386508%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fantifa-vandalizes-businesses-blocks-traffic-during-lake-street-march%2F
At some points, the demonstrators marched through residential streets and created “barricades wherever they could,” according to Brannon.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492389586823049219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492389586823049219%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fantifa-vandalizes-businesses-blocks-traffic-during-lake-street-march%2F
The vandals also threw rocks at and spray-painted the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fifth Precinct.
https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1492398216192884738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492398216192884738%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanews.org%2Fantifa-vandalizes-businesses-blocks-traffic-during-lake-street-march%2F
Crime Watch Minneapolis obtained pictures of some of the vandalism. Some of the graffiti included clear threats to burn down the city again.
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) February 12, 2022
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Photo “vandalism on businesses” by CrimeWatchMpls.
