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said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies, Law and Criminology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, "When you talk about uprisings, protests, law enforcement likes to use the rhetoric of ‘outside agitators’ to deflect from the issue at home."
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The outsiders are in self quarantine
Those arrested who were “local” residents may have been paid or unpaid and / or part of an organized effort. There may have been “non-local” residents who were not arrested and were part of an organized agitation effort. Keeping in mind the civil unrest largely began Friday May 29th, Saturday May 30th, and Sunday May 31st, 2020 and extended beyond that. Was Black Bloc or a Black Bloc type group involved? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bloc Here is a video from the KrisAnne Hall YouTube channel of a Black Bloc type rioter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFp12g6aXCQ Begin at 18:39 in the above video. Next, at 25:23 in… Read more »
Actually begin at the 17:00 point in the first video.
Very few of those WHO WERE ARRESTED are from elsewhere. “Outside agitators,” if any, are probably skilled, know how to dress anonymously, and run fast enough that cops didn’t catch them. Or, possibly, they’re working in coordination with the cops and get released before arrest processing.
It doesn’t take much to get a mob riled up. Once the shouting starts, a quick exit becomes easier.