The Minnesota Department of Public Safety validated Monday that officers from two law enforcement agencies slashed lots of lorries’ tires as part of the reaction to protests in Minneapolis last weekend.
Minnesota state troopers and deputies from the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office pierced and deflated tires in “a few locations,” Department of Public Security representative Bruce Gordon told The Star Tribune
” State Patrol troopers tactically deflated tires … in order to stop behaviors such as cars driving dangerously and at high speeds around protesters and law enforcement,” he said.
Gordon acknowledged that police slashing tires is “not a normal technique,” but defended it as decreasing the danger of cars “being utilized as hazardous weapons and preventing our capability to clear locations and keep areas safe.”
Numerous of the broken automobiles came from press reporters on the scene covering the demonstrations that appeared following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis. Journalists have actually consistently been targeted by law enforcement officers as they cover protests across the nation.
Minneapolis Authorities slashed every tire on my rental vehicle, as well as every tire of every vehicle in this parking area. pic.twitter.com/lchFplYQ0n
— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) May 31, 2020
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