In August of 2020 a riot occurred in downtown Minneapolis in reaction to false rumors about the suicide of Eddie Sole Jr., a 38-year-old African American man; demonstrators believed he had been shot by police officers. Surveillance video showed that Sole Jr. shot himself in the head during a manhunt for a homicide suspect in which he was the person of interest. Controversially, the police released the CCTV camera footage of the suicide in attempts to stop the unrest.
It was the mainstream media outlets that spread the rumor that the man was killed by the police, which sparked violent protests in the city. To avoid responsibility, they all conveniently deleted the articles.
Overnight vandalism and looting of stores from August 26 to 27 reached a total of 77 property locations in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, including five businesses that were set on fire. State and local officials arrested a total of 132 people during the unrest.
Even after all of that the biased media continued to portray the protests as mostly peaceful, which was an obvious lie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/minneapolis-protests-unrest.html
https://pa.courts.state.mn.us/CaseDetail.aspx?CaseID=1628330211
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