Portland, Friday night, where the long termers are:

More background on that:

Thread:

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Vandals Smear Chauvin Defense Witness’ Former Santa Rosa Home With Pig’s Blood

@ sanfrancisco.cbslocal. com, April 18, 2021 at 8:46 am, VIDEO & PHOTO AT LINK

SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) — The former Santa Rosa home of Barry Brodd, who testified as a defense witness in the Derrick Chauvin murder trial, was smeared with pig’s blood and had a severed pig’s head dumped on the front porch in an early Saturday morning vandalism attack.

Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, is currently on trial facing murder charges in the death of George Floyd.

Santa Rosa police said officers responded at 3:07 a.m. to a residence in a west Santa Rosa neighborhood that had just been vandalized.

The vandalism to the victim’s house exceeded $400 making the crime committed by the suspects a felony vandalism.

Investigators believe the vandals thought that Brodd — a former Santa Rosa police officer — still lived at the residence, but he has been a Santa Rosa resident for a number of years.

“Because Mr. Brodd no longer lives in the city of Santa Rosa, it appears the victim was falsely targeted,” police said in a news release.

Approximately 45 minutes later, a large hand statue in front of the Santa Rosa Plaza mall was vandalized with a similar substance, suspected to be animal blood.

The suspects also left a sign in front of the statue which had a picture of a pig and read “Oink Oink.” They were seen fleeing the area and matched the descriptions of the suspects who vandalized the house.

Anyone who witnessed the incident or has information that would assist with the investigation is encouraged to contact SRPD through our online Tip Line: http://www.srcity.org/CrimeTips.

got their number:

Man arrested, charged following incident in Minneapolis where National Guard members were shot at

KSTP, local ABC tv channel Updated: April 19, 2021 07:25 PM

Photo: Courtesy of Minnesota National Guard. This image shows a bullet hole in a National Guard vehicle after shots were fired Sunday morning in north Minneapolis.A 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged following an incident over the weekend where National Guard members were shot at in Minneapolis. 

According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Andrew Thomas has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. 

A criminal complaint says at about 4:20 a.m. Sunday, a team of National Guard soldiers and a Minneapolis police officer had multiple shots fired at them near Penn Avenue North and West Broadway Avenue. 

Later Sunday evening, police in the area of Sixth Street South and Cedar Avenue South located an SUV that matched the description to the suspect vehicle in the shooting. 

After conducting a traffic stop, Thomas and a juvenile passenger were placed in separate police cars. 

After receiving a warrant, officers later executed a search of the vehicle and found two firearms, ammunition and two cartridge casings, according to the complaint. 

Thomas is unable to have a firearm due to a prior felony, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. 

Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Minnesota

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, April 19, 2021

Minneapolis Felon Charged With Illegal Possession Of A Firearm

Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal criminal complaint charging ANDREW THOMAS, 28, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. THOMAS will make his initial appearance tomorrow before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court.

According to the allegations in the criminal complaint, during the early morning hours of April 18, 2021, a team of Minnesota National Guard soldiers, along with an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, was stationed at the corner of Penn Avenue North and West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis. At approximately 4:20 a.m., a light-colored SUV driving on West Broadway Avenue fired multiple shots at the team. One bullet went through the windshield of the team’s military vehicle, which held four soldiers. Two soldiers of the Minnesota National Guard sustained minor injuries: one was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries from shattered glass; the other was treated at the scene for superficial wounds.

The criminal complaint also alleges that during the late evening hours of April 18, 2021, Minneapolis Police officers patrolling the area of 6th Street South and Cedar Avenue South encountered a 2002 Ford Explorer that matched the description of the SUV involved in the shooting. After conducting a felony stop of the vehicle, the driver, later identified as THOMAS, and a juvenile passenger, were placed in separate police cars. After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, officers recovered from the vehicle a Springfield Armory XD-9 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a .22 caliber revolver with an obliterated serial number, ammunition, and two discharged cartridge casings. Because THOMAS has a prior felony conviction in Hennepin County, he is prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time.

This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Minneapolis Police Department.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Calhoun-Lopez.

The charges contained in the complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Defendant Information:

ANDREW THOMAS, 28

Minneapolis, Minn.

Charges:

• Felon in possession of a firearm, 1 count
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• Attachment(s): 

  Download Thomas criminal complaint.pdf

more interesting detail of arrest available in the downloadable pdf of the 8-page criminal complaint.

I especially thought interesting what the juvenile told them, stated in item #10 on page 6

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/press-release/file/1388056/download

and Thomas' record, 3rd-degree assault, served 18 mos. And that they thought an item in the glove compartment might be narcotics. And that one of the pistols had an obliterated serial number.

thread on NYC protest this evening

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pfffffffffftt for kabuki tonite in Portlandia

meantime, in NYC, the anarchists have a new segregationist agenda with specific roles depending upon skin color:

via Newsmax April 18 but I wouldn't be surprised if it was real as they are expert at picking up on these things:

For his role in burning down the Minneapolis station during Geo. Floyd protests, Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was sentenced to 4 years and a $12 million fine (3 buddies to go):

there was also this CNN story

Minnesota man sentenced to 4 years in prison for role in setting ablaze a Minneapolis police precinct during Floyd protests

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN, Updated 6:14 PM ET, Thu April 29, 2021

There is an anarchist group that is increasingly active on social media, Black Hammer (@BlkHmmrTimes. We are an anticolonial organization dedicated to getting our land back! Join us in making a city with no rent, kkkops, rona or colonizers at http://blackhammer.org)

They are unashamedly anti-semitic, going along with support of Palestinian causes, though the latter is not their primary interest (it's more like they presume all Palestinians are supportive of anarchism and Israel is evil. Jews as colonizers, a riff on the whole Protocols of Zion thing) They regularly do screeds against Anne Frank on Twitter, causing her name to trend. The goal is to just to piss people off? Start the ethnic wars? or what?)

look closely and that's not a "thumbs up" sign

(revcom)