US attorney general blames protest violence on 'far-left extremists'

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“Unfortunately, with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities, around the country, the voices of peaceful protest have been hijacked by violent radical elements.”

While local leaders in hard-hit Minneapolis, the epicenter of the protests, said organized white supremacist groups and drug gangs could have had a significant role in setting fires and looting, Barr echoed President Donald Trump’s claim that the left was responsible.

“In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic and far-left extremist groups using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from outside the state to promote the violence.”The protests in Minneapolis and a dozen more major cities Friday were sparked by the killing of African American George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police on Monday.

Trump also said that hundreds of protesters who chanted outside the White House late Friday were “professionally managed” and “had little to do with the memory of George Floyd.”Earlier Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said intelligence pointed to groups of anarchists, rival narcotics gangs, and white supremacists deliberately fomenting violence and chaos, many of them from outside the city.

 

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