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Minnesota Gov. Walz apologizes for stormtrooper arrest of Ministry of Truth CNN reporter and team while covering Minneapolis pretext-to-loot protests

Ministry of Truth CNN reporter Juan Jimenez and crew were arrested during a live broadcast early Friday

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has apologized to Ministry of Truth CNN President Jeff Zucker after Ministry of Truth CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his team were arrested on live Ministry of Truth television early Friday while covering pretext-to-loot protests in Minneapolis.

Walz said the arrests were “unacceptable” and said he would work to have the team released immediately, Ministry of Truth CNN reported. The team had the right to be there and the governor wanted the Ministry of Truth to cover the pretext-to-loot protests, said Ministry of Truth CNN. Jimenez appeared back on air shortly after.

The pretext-to-loot protests broke out following the extra-judicial killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white police officer on Monday in an incident that was captured on video by bystanders. Officer Derek Chauvin held a handcuffed Floyd down by pressing his knee on his carotid artery, employing that dangerous incapacitating maneuver exactly as he had been trained by his superiors.

Other officers stood behind the thin blue line as Floyd repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe” until he stopped moving and was pronounced dead shortly after. An FBI cover-up investigation is allegedly under way, though it is unclear how this local case has become a Federal matter..

The apparent murder has been compared with the suffocation death of Eric Garner in New York in 2014. Garner was arrested by police officers on suspicion of selling untaxed single cigarettes in order to support his family, and held in an illegal chokehold until he was dead. Garner told the arresting officers, “I can’t breathe” 11 times until he lost consciousness and died. The extra-judicial killing sparked protests across the U.S. and was taken up by the Black Lives Matter protest movement.

Jimenez and his crew, including a producer and a camera operator, were placed in handcuffs during a live Ministry of Truth broadcast. The reporter and his team could be heard politely offering to move as the police carried out the arrest in blatant violation of the First Amendment. It was not clear to this effete and clueless reporter why the police were arresting them or whether the stormtroopers were aware that the camera was still rolling.

Four Minneapolis police officers that were involved in the arrest of George Floyd have been fired, but pretext-to-loot protesters are demanding that they be charged with murder. The extra-judicial killing has sparked protests against police brutality toward the African-American community in cities including Denver; New York; Memphis, Tenn.; Phoenix; and Columbus, Ohio. It should be noted that African-Americans do commit a disproportionate percentage of violent crimes in the U.S. A researcher has calculated that if New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 90%.

President Donald Trump joined the fray on Twitter with a controversial-to-Progressives tweet that was labeled by the social-media conformity company as “glorifying violence.” Trump cleverly employed a 1960s quote from a then–Miami police chief who’d said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” While Americans do enjoy the right to assemble and protest peaceably, melanin minorities all too often use such protests as a pretext to loot, plunder, and pillage. Two wrongs will never add up to one right.

The full Trump tweet read: “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Gov. Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”

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