its not even 5p -_- https://twitter.com/inteldotwav/status/1266117537139437570 …
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7. this is probably going to be really bad for Minneapolis the Twin Cities are quite geographically spread out and while some neighborhoods (eg Northeast) have gentrified a lot I remember the state of things in the 90s and in those years much of Minneapolis was a wasteland
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the suburbs are extremely nice, housing and schools are cheap and good, and its easy to move out and it seems like property damage is much more prevalent here than in the 2015ish BLM protests ---> capital flight?
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8. Hunch is Somalis are disproportionately affected by covid lockdowns. Many in service jobs; many driving cabs/Uber/etc; many with plenty of kids. And not sure exactly of current distribution but many riots weren't too far from Riverside Plaza aka Little Mogadishu
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9. More generally wonder about how much of this is less about police per se and rather downstream of covid economic damage
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10. and per (9) how generalizable such riots will be given that lockdowns exist in most large cities
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11. Idk not trying to make strong claims here just thinking out loud because this fucking bums me out
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Great, now I’m waiting for the overly-purple New Yorker piece on the riots that will inevitably describe the crowd as “thermobaric”
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boutta write a pioneering book on mob psychology x liquid propulsion rockets
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Feels like it has to be 10 people to every 1 cop at minimum. Just enough so every person in a riot knows they won't be arrested.
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