Nakima Levy Armstrong
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that they have inflicted upon the Twin Cities is just out of control.
I mean, literally, I don't know if you heard the story of what happened the other day after they shot a Venezuelan man in the leg.
You know, they essentially unleashed flashbang grenades.
Georgia was actually out there that night because she and I were in communication.
So it was like a war zone in the streets of North Minneapolis, which is primarily black and lower income community, although it is diverse.
But they shot grenades, tear gas, and actually they wound up shooting a flashbang grenade and hitting a vehicle that had a family, a black family in it with six children.
And the six month old in the vehicle actually stopped breathing and became unconscious.
And the mother was on the phone with 911, learning how to give her baby CPR to keep her baby alive.
And so her child had her baby had to be hospitalized, plus two other children, completely innocent people.
And the flashbang boom was so strong it deployed all the airbags in that vehicle.
So you have a family completely terrorized, just terrified, driving down the street.
coming from their son's basketball game, subjected to this level of brutality and terrorism.
It is like slave patrols.
We have to remember history is repeating itself here.
You know, when I arrived on the scene, there was smoke actually on both sides of the intersection that I arrived at, which was very strange.
So trying to figure out where exactly ice was was extremely difficult because they were kind of just surrounding the entire neighborhood.
And then we received reports that they were a few blocks over at another intersection.
And so to have this type of occupation in a highly residential area where
One of the most dense populations of African-Americans in the state was was very alarming.
But, you know, it was interesting.