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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA video appeared some days ago showing Minneapolis Police Officer, Devin Chauvin, with his knee on George Floyd\u2019s neck. To make matters worse, the audio from that same video appeared to record the voice of Floyd crying out that he could not breathe as well as crying for his mother\u2019s help.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What was Floyd\u2019s reported crime? According to the Minneapolis Police Department, Floyd was wanted for \u201cForgery\u201d, a criminal act indeed, but not a violent crime. According to the decision makers at the Minneapolis Police Department, not only was Officer Chauvin involved, but three other officers were as well. All four officers have been fired and after several days of citizens rioting in Minneapolis and demanding that there be arrests of the four officers for the crime of murder, (former) Officer Devin Chauvin was arrested on a single charge of 3rd<\/sup> degree murder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To the surprise of many, riots all across America sprung up in many cities that are far removed from the City of Minneapolis. Most of the protesters appear to be from outside of the State they are rioting in which begs the question–who are those that are rioting and what is their real purpose for destroying property and people\u2019s lives?<\/em> In an article that appeared in USAToday on May 30, 2020, Adam Leggat, a former British Army counterterrorism officer who is now employed as a security consultant specializing in crown management for the Densus Group said, \u201cMost of the hard-core protestors in Minneapolis are far-left or anarchists (and despite some of the left-leaning media reports), far-right groups have not yet made a significant appearance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n President Trump and some State Governors as of late, have ordered National Guard troops to help end the rioting which has only helped in a few cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that riots broke out all across America this past weekend including right here in Florida? The reason behind the riots explained by many of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}