'At breaking point': Australian professor tells of Minneapolis chaos

Several nights of protests have followed across the US in cities including New York City, Atlanta, Houston, Washington DC and Denver.Demonstrators in Minneapolis - where police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with murder over Floyd's death - were met by the United States National Guard last night after they burnt down a police station, destroyed cars, looted business and beat up cars.

“The world is sort of in a tough place but I think the US has just gotten itself into this terrible situation and I can’t imagine it getting out of it for years, whatever that means.“This is the first time I have felt uncomfortable here.”It is known for its many theatres and Professor Duval says it resembles Melbourne in that sense. It’s "artsy and classy, the hometown of Prince".

“It’s got a hell of a lot going for it. I love it. I can drive home through the city and it’s never crazy. It’s easy, you can just drive downtown.Professor Duval has lived in Minneapolis for 21 years, and Colorado for four years before that. She moved to the US to study a PhD and met her husband, who died three years ago, and had a son.

"People are at their breaking point already. Minnesota is generally a blue [Democratic Party] state," Professor Duval says."People are so distressed. It is not unique to Minnesota. So many people are struggling to make ends meet and this happens and people think 'What the hell? What is going on in this land?"

Balanced reporting, nice work.

A nation of crazy people that for some reason we just want to be like. Can we not? Minnesotariots

I have an imaginary son in a imaginary country that counters everything in this article. FFS report the facts not anecdotal hearsay.

omg another Aussie giving us all a bad name as stupid

Not unfounded. Justine Damond was white and they had no hesitation killing her. After she called them.

I wish people would realise it takes one piece of rotten fruit to contaminate the good fruit in the basket . In Queensland the rotten fruit are old & sadly become trainers of new recruits .

This is complete bullshit. American Policemen are not bloodthirsty savages looking for excuses to kill people. They are normal people doing a job to provide for them and their families. A very, very small number are bad actors. Only Ppl fear the police if they're criminals

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