I put this up so we could watch live. We live in a time where people can livestream directly from their phones on the ground, and they were. We didn't need to wait until the news reports, or until someone's Facebook post hit your feed to "tell you."
If you could stomach the chaos and keep watching, peaceful protests were joined by A LOT of young people who insisted "the revolution" is here and that there's no turning back. NOT "the black" revolution. The "socialist" revolution.
There is more than enough footage of those types of folks standing up and proudly admitting it. You'll see it repeatedly in these recordings - spray painting buildings "Another end of the world is possible" and "Burn the Banks."
[a black guy filming what's going on where he's standing. a black man and woman turn to the camera insisting, "RECORD THOSE WHITE DUDES! BRO! YOUR MISSING IT!" - guy declines, "I ain't about that shit man. OK! Yo! What up everyone, we're live. We got the white boys puttin in work at Arbys. We out here together!" The other man comes back to the camera irate, "RECORD THAT SHIT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOIN?!"]
Locals overheard noticing "white people" causing mass damage seemed to be a new developing theme overnight last night vs. the prior night. Probably spurred by the reports blowing up through yesterday that A St. Paul police officer busted the windows out of AutoZone. Probably spurred further by reports characterizing his actions as "kick starting" it. I saw a LOT of videos of other fires and destruction where that guy wasn't even present, but I digress: I saw a lot of kids get interview during random chaos and they'd say shit like, "I dunno man I saw your channel and I had to be here! THIS IS AWESOME!!!"