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MN Safety Commissioner: Twenty-Five Hundred Officers Were ‘Confronted With Tens Of Thousands Of Rioters’

Eric Quintanar
MN Safety Commissioner: Twenty-Five Hundred Officers Were ‘Confronted With Tens Of Thousands Of Rioters’
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During a press conference on Saturday morning, Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington explained the deteriorating state of the George Floyd demonstrations over the last several days, noting that thousands of law enforcement officials from various agencies had “assembled the largest civil policing authority in the history of Minnesota.”

“We put together twenty-five hundred public safety folks, between national guard and cops and state troopers and everybody else,” he said. “That is an enormous number of law enforcement people, and we were confronted with tens of thousands of rioters.”

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