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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:41 PM Nov 2015

Three in Custody After Five Shot at Minneapolis Protest

Source: Wall st Journal

Updated Nov. 24, 2015 7:34 p.m. ET
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Minneapolis police had three men in custody Tuesday in connection with the shooting of five people who were protesting the killing of a black man by police this month.

The department said police arrested a 23-year-old white male. Two additional white men ages 21 years old and 26 years old turned themselves in and are being questioned. None of those shot late Monday night suffered life-threatening injuries, police said.

A 32-year-old Hispanic man who had been questioned by police regarding the shootings was released after it was determined he was not at the shooting scene Monday night.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/five-people-shot-at-minneapolis-protest-no-fatalities-1448356831

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Three in Custody After Five Shot at Minneapolis Protest (Original Post) ellenrr Nov 2015 OP
Will it turn out that the shooters are actually Police Officers? 951-Riverside Nov 2015 #1
OMG! I was going to say the same thing about the lack of names... SoapBox Nov 2015 #2
Or their kids uppityperson Nov 2015 #3
 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
1. Will it turn out that the shooters are actually Police Officers?
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 09:37 PM
Nov 2015

Last night witnesses said they saw a police officer wearing the same brand mask as one of the shooters and atleast one of the shooters was wearing a bullet resistant vest.

Its highly suspicious that the Police Department still haven't named 3 white men who are in custody or released their photos and no one has leaked it either which leads me to believe that the department is going out of their way to keep their identities a closely guarded secret and only a few people within the department know who they are. You'd think the department would go out of their way to display their photos, weapons, etc.

Very strange

Now if you watch video of the shooters milling around before they opened fire it looks like they are covering each other's backs. Their actions are very similar to the undercover cops who were spotted in Pittsburgh



Video here: https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/669160633951109120

Now watch video of undercover officers in Pittsburgh.



Oakland:



SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
2. OMG! I was going to say the same thing about the lack of names...
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 09:51 PM
Nov 2015

If they had been PoC, a photo, full name and every tidbit of personal information would have been leaked already...even if they did nothing wrong.

This smells.

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