George Floyd Riots Damage Persists, DEI Jobs Disappearing, and Where are Epstein Files, with Heather Mac Donald and Alan Dershowitz | Ep. 1082
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What happened during the George Floyd riots?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. It may be hard to believe, but it has now been five years since the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. The protests caused weeks of unrest and destruction in cities across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd. A report by the Major Cities Chiefs Association documenting 2,385 looting incidents, 625 acts of arson, including 97 police cars burned, 2,037 police officers injured from May 25th to July 31st of 2020. David Dorn, a 77-year-old former police captain, was shot and killed during a burglary of his pawn shop in St. Louis during the riots, which were, of course, infamously described by CNN as mostly peaceful. According to the New York Post, insurance companies made between $1 and $2 billion worth of payouts to cover the damages around the country from the week of May 26th to June 1st, 2020.
It started with the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, who died during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers, where video showed Officer Derek Chauvin with what appeared to be his knee on Floyd's neck as he shouted for help. Officer Chauvin is now in prison after being convicted of second degree murder, later pleading guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights. Protests over Floyd's death quickly erupted in Minneapolis and soon after spiraled out of control. With the city overwhelmed with incidents of looting and destruction and a governor who did next to nothing. His name was Tim Walls. A report by the city finding the riots caused 133 structure fires, $500 million in damage. Again, just from May 25th to June 3rd of 2020. Here's some of it.
Hands up, don't shoot.
99-01, 99-01 emergency. We got individuals breaching the gate at the 3rd Precinct. We also got people trying to breach the front doors. We're about to breach the back gate. We're taking heavy rocks. Heavy rocks. Airing information citywide, the 3rd Precinct has been compromised. Third precinct is up in flames. We're going to move back. They're starting to throw Molotov cocktails. We're going.
In perhaps the most dramatic moment, rioters took over Minneapolis's third precinct. You heard it referenced there. Burning it to the ground. That happened on May 28th, exactly five years ago today. Here's what officers said about that event from an Alpha News documentary.
So I get a command over the radio that we need to evacuate the third precinct. Evacuate now. Evacuate now. I said, like, right now? 30-01, do we have to evacuate right now? And they said, yes, immediately. We run. We run with our belts on and 50-some people and three SWAT teams, and we get to the fence. We can't get out. We gotta go. We are sitting just here. There was only one way in and one way out, and the way out was locked. One of the squads rams through the fence to get it open. I remember looking through the rear-view mirror as we left.
It looked like a zombie movie. They all just rushed to the fence and started climbing the fence, and they caused the fences to collapse, and then they just all rushed to the precinct.
But as I got maybe a quarter block away, I realized that not everyone was in vehicles. They were running basically for their lives at that point.
This is allowed. That Alpha News documentary is amazing. It was put together by Alpha News, including Liz Collins. She's been on the program multiple times. But our in-depth look at the documentary with Liz is episode 670. If you want to go back and listen to it, it's well worth your time. They allowed the third precinct to burn. There was a complicit mayor. And as I mentioned, the governor and no one was looking out for regular law abiding citizens in Minneapolis. And as you well know, it went far beyond Minneapolis. the BLM bullies went coast to coast in their so-called activism, trying to target not just cops, but regular people to repeat and support their message, including this incident in Pittsburgh.
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People being harassed as they tried to eat outdoors, which we were all forced to do because of the COVID mania by these BLM rioters, protesters, activists. You can call them whatever you want. They were bullies harassing private citizens into repeating their message or raising the fist like what happened here in Washington, D.C.
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