{"id":52029,"date":"2020-07-04T02:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T02:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/they-have-lost-control-why-minneapolis-burned\/"},"modified":"2020-07-04T02:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T02:21:30","slug":"they-have-lost-control-why-minneapolis-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/they-have-lost-control-why-minneapolis-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Have Lost Control\u2019: Why Minneapolis Burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story\">\n<div>\n<header>\n<p id=\"article-summary\">After George Floyd\u2019s death, pent-up frustrations, provocateurs and inexperienced leadership led to mayhem for three nights.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/00unrest-mayor01alt\/merlin_172983978_6626ace5-c580-4873-b494-24a4da5dac40-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><\/source><img alt=\"A building burned in Minneapolis during protests against the killing of George Floyd by the police in May.\" decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/00unrest-mayor01alt\/merlin_172983978_6626ace5-c580-4873-b494-24a4da5dac40-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" itemprop=\"url\"  src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/00unrest-mayor01alt\/merlin_172983978_6626ace5-c580-4873-b494-24a4da5dac40-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" ><\/img><\/picture><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">A building burned in Minneapolis during protests against the killing of George Floyd by the police in May.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span>Victor J. Blue for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><time datetime=\"2020-07-03T17:56:47-04:00\">July 3, 2020<\/time><time datetime=\"2020-07-03T20:27:47-04:00\">Updated <span>8:27 p.m. ET<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\" name=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Two days after George Floyd died, the police chief of Minneapolis called the mayor around dinnertime. He needed help. What had begun as peaceful protests outside the Third Police Precinct was turning into mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said: \u2018The Target is getting looted. We are not going to be able to handle this on our own,\u2019\u201d recalled Mayor Jacob Frey, who called Gov. Tim Walz and asked for the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said he would consider the request. Afterward, he expressed surprise that city leaders did not seem to have a plan for where they wanted the soldiers to go.<\/p>\n<p>As the night wore on, dozens of buildings burst into flames, without a fire crew in sight. A six-story apartment building that was still under construction collapsed into a ball of fire. A high-tech factory was set ablaze. Residents called 911 desperate for help, but dispatchers were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Over three nights, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots\/569930671\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">a five-mile stretch<\/a> of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage. The police precinct house itself was set on fire, after the mayor gave orders to evacuate the building. A month later, the city is still struggling to understand what happened and why: Not since the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles has an American city suffered such destructive riots.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of protesters in Minneapolis, like others around the country, marched peacefully, and some tried to intervene to stop the destruction. To many, the damage was an understandable response to years of injustice at the hands of the Minneapolis police, an explosion of anger that activists had warned was coming if the city did not reform law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it struck a close-knit, civic-minded community that was already struggling under the coronavirus pandemic. Fires and looting destroyed hundreds of businesses, among them a worker-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thehubbikecoop\/update-from-the-hub-bike-co-op?fbclid=IwAR1L5w6j66I1lnosoM-alwGW3K24brfli2E1_WUAoEa7Ynza9s2E9P0ytIk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">bicycle co-op<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/relief-for-town-talk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">a historic diner<\/a> run by a husband and wife, and the new headquarters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migizi.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">a nonprofit organization<\/a> that works with Native American teens.<\/p>\n<p>A close examination of the events, including interviews with more than two dozen elected officials, activists, business owners and residents, suggests at least some of the destruction resulted from a breakdown in governance. The mayor and other local leaders, many of them relatively new to their roles, failed to anticipate the intensity of the unrest or put together an effective plan to counter it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Frey has struggled to regain the confidence of Minneapolis residents. He has been slammed by business owners for not doing enough to protect their property. He has been pilloried by the police for ordering the abandonment of the precinct house. And he\u2019s been booed and heckled by activists because he doesn\u2019t support their demand to dismantle the police department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>When asked about his handling of the looting and fires, Mr. Frey said that in the moment he was faced with a series of impossible choices, all of them bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that in years and decades from now, we can look back at this time of great trauma and turmoil and recognize it as the moment where we rose up, united in purpose and finally created the change that we all envision,\u201d Mr. Frey said.<\/p>\n<p>And he stressed the unprecedented nature of the crisis \u2014 three nights of rioting in the midst of a pandemic. \u201cThere is no playbook for this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/12\/us\/00UNREST-MAYOR\/merlin_173287578_5d88e868-6026-4bfd-80ac-5dd7ee0f8dc1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Mayor Jacob Frey said he was faced with a series of impossible choices.\u00a0<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>Victor J. Blue for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"link-6e03affd\">A New Face<\/h2>\n<p>The day after George Floyd died, Mr. Frey announced that all four officers involved had been fired. He also called for criminal charges to be filed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever the investigation reveals, it does not change the simple truth that he should be with us this morning,\u201d Mr. Frey said of Mr. Floyd in emotional remarks early Tuesday morning, standing next to the police chief, Medaria Arradondo. \u201cBeing Black in America should not be a death sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His swift, unequivocal statement won praise from activists and even some seasoned politicians. But others said the move dangerously alienated rank-and-file officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOnce Frey comes out and basically sides with the protesters, he has sent the signal that the police are on their own,\u201d said Lawrence Jacobs, professor of public policy at the University of Minnesota. \u201cIf you are going to say something like that, you have to have a plan for what is going to happen, because you have now inflamed both sides of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elected two and a half years earlier, at the age of 36, Mr. Frey had promised to remake the city\u2019s public image after years of negative news stories about high-profile police killings. His meteoric rise in Minnesota politics stemmed from his ability to talk the language of social justice while at the same time wooing the business community with his charisma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disgusted that Minneapolis is in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons,\u201d he said in a campaign ad in 2017. \u201cPolice shootings. Intolerance and inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His victory over his predecessor, Betsy Hodges, was all the more extraordinary, given his relatively recent ties to the city. A Northern Virginia native who was a professional runner for years, Mr. Frey fell in love with Minneapolis after he ran a marathon there. He earned a law degree and took a job with a white shoe law firm in the city in 2009. Four years later, he ran for City Council and won.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, a 24-year-old Black man named Jamar Clark was shot in the head after the police responded to a call about a domestic dispute. Activists camped out in the vestibule of the Fourth Police Precinct for days. Mayor Hodges personally showed up there to broker a solution, and the 18-day occupation ended without a riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we kept saying is, \u2018Our goal is to not have the city burn,\u2019\u201d said Carla Kjellberg, an informal adviser to Ms. Hodges at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney who helped organize that police protest as well as the one for George Floyd, said she warned city leaders in 2015 that she had personally encountered people who were ready to burn down the police precinct house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIf we do not rein in the police department and address the economic inequalities, we were poised to become the next Ferguson,\u201d Ms. Levy Armstrong said she told the City Council at the time, referring to the Missouri city that had been the site of riots. \u201cThis is a combustible situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/unrest-mayor-5\/unrest-mayor-5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<picture><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 3dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 288dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 2dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 192dpi)\" ><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 599px) and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 1dppx),(max-width: 599px) and (min-resolution: 96dpi)\" ><\/source><img alt=\"A candlelight vigil held for Jamar Clark in Minneapolis in 2015.\" decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/unrest-mayor-5\/unrest-mayor-5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" itemprop=\"url\"  src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/unrest-mayor-5\/unrest-mayor-5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp&#038;disable=upscale\" ><\/img><\/picture><\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">A candlelight vigil held for Jamar Clark in Minneapolis in 2015.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"link-281d255c\">A Scuffle Breaks Out<\/h2>\n<p>The day after George Floyd died, protesters marched from the place where he gasped under a police officer\u2019s knee to the Third Precinct where they believed the officer worked.<\/p>\n<p>They rallied peacefully on the steps with a megaphone and signs. Then, as night closed in, they started wandering home. But a rowdy group peeled away, spray painting graffiti on the police precinct house wall. Someone smashed the window of an empty police cruiser. \u201cThis is not OK,\u201d a young female protester can be overheard saying on a video later posted to Facebook. A scuffle broke out. \u201cEverybody go home,\u201d someone screamed.<\/p>\n<p>Three miles away, at City Hall, Mr. Frey was receiving calls from worried local leaders. He assured them everything was under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hearing it\u2019s not that bad,\u201d he told a city councilor over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Ellison, a newly elected city councilor who had participated in the 2015 protest against the police, advised the mayor to leave the vandals alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus of anger is the police and this building,\u201d Mr. Ellison reasoned. \u201cIf we let the crowd do its thing, we might spare the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>But Mr. Frey did not intervene to stop police officers from moving in and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LJZSQXpw8ig\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">firing tear gas<\/a> and flash grenades.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, hundreds of angry protesters gathered once again outside the precinct house, facing off against lines of officers who occasionally fired tear gas and rubber bullets. Nearby, a white man, who wore a gas mask and carried an umbrella, began calmly breaking the windows of AutoZone with a hammer. Within hours, AutoZone went up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>That night, the mayor asked for the Minnesota National Guard to help the city. He left the police to handle the details of the deployment since he believed they had the right expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Chief Mike Kjos acknowledged \u201csome confusion\u201d over the level of detail required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a rapidly evolving situation,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thought we could put a request in and while the people are arriving, we could be formulating what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, city leaders did not understand how much time it can take for the citizen soldiers of the National Guard to leave their normal jobs, report for duty, collect their gear and travel to Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected them to be on site right then and there,\u201d said Alondra Cano, a City Council member who participated in a \u201cprosecute the police\u201d campaign in college and now heads the Council\u2019s public safety committee. Like Mayor Frey, the vast majority of Minneapolis City Council members are relatively new to governing. Five took office in 2018; another five in 2014, including Ms. Cano.<\/p>\n<p>As Wednesday night wore on, buildings up and down Lake Street burst into flame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole neighborhood could burn down tonight,\u201d Jamie Schwesnedl, co-owner of Moon Palace Books, a bookstore near the police precinct house, remembered thinking as he spent the night on his roof watching buildings around him burn. \u201cI just can\u2019t believe that the city hasn\u2019t anticipated this or responded to it in any kind of proactive way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Mr. Schwesnedl, who has long believed that the police caused more problems than they fixed, said city leaders should not have been caught off guard by the level of fury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was clear to me on Tuesday morning that this was a big deal,\u201d he said. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t just people were going to come out and protest on Tuesday and go home. This is, people are furious and traumatized and unemployed and they have been inside for two and a half months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters wanted police escorts to protect them from rioters as they battled the flames, and so they held back. Residents did what they could with garden hoses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/unrest-mayor-2\/merlin_172944321_89a19832-de79-47f0-b1dc-1004d10c9f2c-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">The Third Police Precinct burned in Minneapolis as protests continued in May.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>John Minchillo\/Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"link-2d62c3de\">\u2018My District Is Burning\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>As the sun came up on Thursday morning, many in the city hoped that the worst had passed. But later that day, as peaceful protests continued elsewhere, an angry crowd gathered once again outside the police precinct house.<\/p>\n<p>That afternoon the local district attorney said his office needed more time to investigate before charging officers for Mr. Floyd\u2019s death. Mr. Frey decided to pull officers off the street outside the Third Precinct building in a bid to de-escalate tension. But it had the opposite effect, according to Patricia Torres Ray, a state senator from Minneapolis who represents the district, a racially diverse area that has seen increased development in recent years. Looters broke into the liquor store across the street from the police precinct house and handed out bottles to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were getting drunk,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThe mayor told me that he had this under control,\u201d she said of her brief phone conversation earlier in the day with Mr. Frey, who had yet to visit the embattled police precinct. As night fell, smoke began to billow from more buildings. Ms. Torres Ray panicked. She called Governor Walz and begged him to intervene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI need help. My district is burning,\u201d she said she told Governor Walz. \u201cI do not see the plan of the city to address it. His answer was, \u2018Senator, I am on my way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Walz was surprised that the city had still not given state officials details on what the National Guard should do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what the plan is and absolutely I\u2019m not going to wait for the city to tell me what the plan was,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, \u2018They have lost control.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few hundred soldiers with the National Guard, along with members of the state patrol, arrived in Minneapolis late Thursday night. But they didn\u2019t go to the police precinct. Instead, the Minneapolis Police Department had asked them to escort fire trucks, and to protect the Federal Reserve and Nicollet Mall, an upscale mall.<\/p>\n<p>But things were spinning out of control in the neighborhood around the precinct house. Nearly every building around it had been vandalized, looted or set on fire. Neighbors banded together to protect their own property, since 911 dispatchers were overwhelmed. \u201cDo not put yourself at risk to protect our store,\u201d Mr. Schwesnedl posted on the Facebook page of Moon Palace Books. \u201cYour life is priceless, just like George Floyd\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At about 10 that evening, a few hours after Mr. Frey appealed for calm on Rachel Maddow\u2019s show on MSNBC, the crowd outside the police precinct house breached the doors. Faced with the possibility of hand-to-hand combat, the mayor gave orders to evacuate the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were faced with these fail fail fail options,\u201d Mr. Frey said. \u201cWe were literally having to choose between preventing additional looting, protecting a precinct and providing escorts to firefighters to put out fires. There was no way we could do all three.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Officers left the compound in a phalanx of police vehicles. The crowd cheered and set the building on fire. A horrified Governor Walz took charge of the effort to restore order in the city. Hours later, the National Guard arrived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/13\/us\/unrest-mayor-3\/merlin_173099007_da8a19b2-8e5d-4466-9796-6585ec9c443f-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Image<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Minnesota National Guard trucks drove past the Third Precinct after it was destroyed during protests.<\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><span>Credit&#8230;<\/span><span>Victor J. Blue for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"link-1aadfe87\">The Aftermath<\/h2>\n<p>In the weeks since the police precinct house burned down, at least three men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mn\/pr\/brainerd-man-charged-minneapolis-police-third-precinct-arson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">aged 22<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/08\/us\/george-floyd-protests.html#link-3203d72a\" title=\"\">23<\/a> and 26, who were unfamiliar to protest organizers have been arrested and charged with aiding and abetting arson.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Frey, who once campaigned on the idea of putting the city in the news for the right reasons, is vowing to rebuild what was destroyed and put something better \u2014 and more equitable \u2014 in its place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are turning a page,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those affected by the fires are tallying what was lost and trying to move forward. Town Talk Diner, which had fed the neighborhood since 1946, so long that its iconic teal sign had been added to the list of historic landmarks, was first looted that Wednesday night, then burned to the ground on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnthinkable and surreal,\u201d Kacey White and Charles Stotts, the husband and wife team who own the restaurant, wrote on Facebook. \u201cBrought down by a mighty blaze, the old bright sign illuminated for the final time, in the wee hours, from the flames that surrounded her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The headquarters of Migizi, a nonprofit that runs programs for Native American teens, was destroyed by fire just one year after the group raised $1.6 million to purchase and renovate it. \u201cIt hurts to see hard work, dreams and spirit \u2014 yes spirit \u2014 go up in flames,\u201d the staff wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migizi.org\/post\/loss-of-home\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe will rebuild!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>But the owner of the factory, 7-Sigma, which employed 50 people, announced that the company was moving away because city leaders failed to protect the plant. The company\u2019s Facebook page has been inundated with offers from around the country to welcome the new factory. \u201cRebuild in Dickinson ND,\u201d one wrote, promising that businesses there were protected, not burned down.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Schwesnedl, of Moon Palace Books, intends to keep his business in the neighborhood, although he admits that area looks \u201ca little bit like Dresden,\u201d the German city flattened during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Of the mayor, Mr. Schwesnedl said he keeps hearing him talk about feelings. \u201cI think it\u2019s really good to have someone in public leadership talk about feelings, but we also need him to talk about policy,\u201d he said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to have his job right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/minneapolis-government-george-floyd.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After George Floyd\u2019s death, pent-up frustrations, provocateurs and inexperienced leadership led to mayhem for three nights.A building burned in Minneapolis during protests against the killing of George Floyd by the police in May.Credit&#8230;Victor J. 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