But sometimes taking a low-information approach helps to make the big picture clearer...like in that artist technique where you squint at your artwork to see what is wrong with it.
More or less the entire Minnesota National Guard is being deployed. Major highways into and across Minneapolis and St. Paul were shut down at 7 pm. Curfew at 8, again being ignored by numerous protestors in Minneapolis, despite being told in four? press conferences today to stay home. Last time I checked, the main body of protestors at the 5th precinct building (I think) was splitting, some on the move, some staying put.
Some reports of shots fired in various places, and there are hints that police and National Guard are being more proactive tonight. An AR-15 was confiscated.
Minneapolis neighborhoods were making neighborhood-watch-type preparations, clearly having little faith in their leaders.
Blocking urban streets with concrete barriers only slows cars down, it doesn’t stop them—there are too many ways to get around them.
Arrest records (such as they are) do not support officials’ assertions that 80 to 100% of rioters last night were from out of state.
In the 6:30 pm press conference, St. Paul Mayor Carter went on for some time about why the protestors wouldn’t be satisfied with justice being done only for the Floyd case...and then in the sentences following he used the words “demonstrate” and “double down”. I don’t think any of that helped.
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