Historical Review

A week ago on Memorial Day, a man named George Floyd was arrested by Minneapolis Police. Three cops stood around while a fourth pressed his knee into the handcuffed man's neck. After about five or six minutes, Mr Floyd was dead.

Demonstrations started in Minneapolis the next night and turned to rioting. The rioting has spread to L.A., New York, Portland, San Francisco, Madison, Wisconsin, and last night, Spokane.

The protest started earlier in the day and was peaceful. It remained peaceful for a couple of hours. The crowd started to disperse when some anarchy supporting shit heads started damaging property. A bunch of storefront windows were shattered and the idiot crowd threw bricks at the Police line and the Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets.

Susan and I had just finished streaming a TV show when we came upon the local channels with "Breaking News". Channels 2, 4 and 6 were all reporting about the situation in downtown.

A curfew was in place for the downtown core and people were told to go home. A lot stayed around for a long time.

I finally went to bed around 11 and tried to keep a wary hear to the night outside. Of course, I fell asleep and the night passed peacefully.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of nights.