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Minnesota Workers Took on the National Guard to Defend Black Lives
Members of the Minnesota National Guard stand guard outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters as protesters gather on April 13, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.
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On Sunday, April 11, a cop pulled Daunte Wright over for air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror and expired tags. Then she murdered him, saying she couldnât tell her gun from her taser. The killing happened 20 minutes down the road from where Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck.
Protests have erupted night after night since then, in Brooklyn Center where Wright was murdered and beyond. The repression by the mayor and governor has been savage. On Friday the 16th, for example, the Minnesota National Guard and the cops beat and gassed the protesters against police violence, shot them with rubber bullets, and then the cops arrested over 100 people. The National Guard had already b
Created: April 16, 2021 06:44 PM
Union members in St. Paul kicked out Minnesota National Guard soldiers who were using the St. Paul Labor Center on West 7th Street as a temporary staging area Wednesday night.
In a video posted on Facebook by a registered nurse and member of the Minnesota Nurses Association, union members can be seen and heard mocking the soldiers and telling them to get out and go home.
It happened as the National Guard was mobilizing in the aftermath of the killing of Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer. We came down here to confront them, Cliff Willmeng, a registered nurse, says on the video he posted. The labor movement and the National Guard has had a river of blood between the two institutions.
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