1776 origin Autozone is where the looting started. A white man wearing a police issue P100 mask ran up to the door with a hammer and smashed the glass. He was surrounded by protesters telling him to stop. The protesters identified him as a cop. If this turns out to be true, then MPD not only killed an unarmed black man in cold blood, but they also escalated the protest into rioting and looting. - Simon Higgs Here's video of a man just after he smashed the AutoZone window with a hammer early in the evening yesterday. This was the first business to be set on fire. In the video people who witnessed him break the window try to confront him but he gets very aggressive and walks quickly away. He is clearly not one of the regular protestors and it looks like he was on a mission to incite violence and looting and then get out. I've linked the video below. - Dan Prozinski More video

precinct Cbs onion Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First MINNEAPOLIS—Calling for a more measured way to express opposition to police brutality, critics slammed demonstrators Thursday for recklessly looting businesses without forming a private equity firm first. “Look, we all have the right to protest, but that doesn’t mean you can just rush in and destroy any business without gathering a group of clandestine investors to purchase it at a severely reduced price and slowly bleed it to death,” said Facebook commenter Amy Mulrain, echoing the sentiments of detractors nationwide who blasted the demonstrators for not hiring a consultant group to take stock of a struggling company’s assets before plundering. “I understand that people are angry, but they shouldn’t just endanger businesses without even a thought to enriching themselves through leveraged buyouts and across-the-board terminations. It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off. There’s a right way and wrong way to do this.” At press time, critics recommended that protestors hold law enforcement accountable by simply purchasing the Minneapolis police department from taxpayers.