On the night of Wednesday May 27, 2020, BLM supporters held a racial justice protest at a Target store near the Third Precinct police station in Minneapolis. After they completely ransacked the Target, the mob began surrounding the police station itself. Everyone in the city knew what was about to happen: Either the authorities would defend the police station, or they’d let it burn.
At 6:23 p.m, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, received an urgent phone call from the chief of police. He preferred to defend the police station, and he told Frey that because the riot was now so large and out of control, the National Guard would be required to do so.
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