Rocks continuing to be thrown from the east side of the precinct, police responded with 5 more "blue tips" (40mm less lethal grenades with a gel cap, similar to a bean bag, but leaves a marking dye for later arrest)
Police are alternating between CS gas canisters and less lethal rounds
Reports of protester with molotov cocktail near liquor store
Police reporting a livestreamer that claims they have a gun that's locked and loaded, police also state they could see the gun
msp-protests-2020-05-26.zip
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Unfortunately the admins had to retire to bed and didn't provide updates past 1am central time. Here is an archive of both MSP PD and LTAC channels that were used to feed this channel. Please note, there are many duplicates between the two as they were bridging calls for most, but not all. Feel free to sort them out using the "noscript" metadata that's associated with them.
A protester was shot with a rubber bullet about 5 minutes ago
Protester seems to be moving around a bit, ambulance is on the way
Police complaining that they're getting "a constant stream of rocks"
Fun fact: Use of tear gas in war is illegal. Using it against civilians is not. They're using weapons that we've deemed too inhumane to use in war.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas
From our followers:
"May be worth mentioning that tear gas is also a chromosomal mutagen and had been linked to multiple miscarriages"
"May be worth mentioning that tear gas is also a chromosomal mutagen and had been linked to multiple miscarriages"