minnesota thoughts 1. on reflection im genuinely impressed that they fired the cops on scene immediately. Seems v likely the main guy will be prosecuted. 2. are there any demands being made? given (1) what would they even be? 3. I do not have warm feelings toward MPD
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4. I wish I could blame the rioting (not protesting, just the rioting bits) on out of state ppl but in fact minneapolis has a vibrant if not historically physically aggressive antifa presence
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5. I wonder what % of people at protests are (i) people who want to start a riot constantly, (ii) people who just want to protest in a relarively chill manner, (iii) not especially political locals who are happy to just go with the flow wrt burning shit down opportunistically
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wrt (iii): like, without endorsing it, I get it, there is something exciting and interesting about burning shit to the ground
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6. wrt (5), I suspect there's a certain threshold of crowd density necessary to spark a riot thinking about this like combustion group (iii) is fuel-oxygen mixture, (i) is a spark, (ii) is idk atmospheric nitrogen or something? idk work in progress
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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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