An Auto Zone store was among the Minneapolis buildings looted and damaged on May 27 during the protests against police violence. Police investigators reportedly have a suspect in the vandalism that preceded the burning of the store.An Auto Zone store was among the Minneapolis buildings looted and damaged on May 27 during the protests against police violence. Police investigators reportedly have a suspect in the vandalism that preceded the burning of the store.
Minneapolis police spokesperson John Elder told NPR he is unable to comment on the investigation, which is"open and active." NPR has not seen the affidavit and is not naming the man because he has not been charged with a crime. of the individual breaking the windows of an AutoZone with a sledgehammer went viral this spring, prompting speculation about the identity of the so-called"Umbrella Man."reported that the man had also spray painted"free for everyone zone" on the doors of the store, which was later burned to the ground., with nearly 70 of them burned to the ground.
"This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city," Christensen wrote in the affidavit, according to reports."Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling 'Umbrella Man,' the protests had been relatively peaceful.
The tipster identified the man as a Hell's Angels member, and said he"wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors," reported the
Clarification... So this is saying that if this male had never showed up, or broke a window, none of the protest would have included violence? And this is coming from the police? I just got a sharpe pain in my brain.
wing_are What’s new?
Yaheli_Shali And he wasn't alone. Find the rest of those dogs!
TomElliot80 Lol look at everyone eating this up. Protestors are angels 👼Not like there’s dozens of arrests of non white supremacists during these protests. I thought liberals had superior intelligence? No way they’d be coaxed into violence by umbrella man.
blackrepublican Well,.. there's 1.
That was very suspicious
realDonaldTrump I guess this is why trumps storm troopers keep going after the peaceful protesters and the people encitong violence seem to just continue causing chaos.
People really believe this 1 guy statred all the looting and riots across the country? Thousands of people out there causing damage to property and business and this 1 guy is the big influencer? All the other black rioters were influenced by a white supremacist?
SophiaSoliloquy Yeah...his ties were to the police.
jilltucker ..ONE thing is certain-- umbrella not imported from HONG Kong !
Was this the same Umbrella Man that shot JFK? Maybe we should ban umbrellas.
Check this out in Portland please!
MphBezy Duh
Isn't all the media, elected, government, police who won't even pick up a phone to listen to a comprehensive national plan for better policing also...fueling the situation and in favor of it by ignoring solutions, intentionally
Not surprised
Your better than this, do your homework first and actually report the facts when you get them. Thanks
This is fake news. There isn’t any evidence.
ReggiePace An affidavit is your source? From some dude? Who could have lied? What happened to getting 3 sources, you know, the minimum standard to ethical journalism? Why is media failing so badly?
::cue surprise here::
how did one Umbrella man do all this? And why Target? and why Cub foods? or why 7 Sigma?
fakenews
Wow a white supremacist. What about all the Antifa inflaming the protests and the local Dems doing nothing about it?
After positively identifying him and having evidence against him claiming he's a white supremacist, why wasn't he arrested Wt
I’m not surprised
Why do you spread lies?
Nobody believes you
npr has no shame.
Lies
The media finally found a scapegoat. It sounds like a stretch to me.
He's a cop.
Bullshit!
Who could have EVER imagined that?
The name of that white supremacist group? The Minneapolis PD.
MarcusHWeber This is my shocked face.....
And here in the video of him being confronted by an african American and he acted just like a cop would! Are you sure they aren’t trying to cover for their officer? Their union president is a member of a known white supremacy Bike club!
The person who started fire at Wendy's was also there to inflame racial tensions. Seems to be the MO of white supremacist groups these days. Charlottesville was also one of a similar tactic.
And yet no reports on Antifa violence... ever... by this left wing hack news site! Pathetic!
StevePeers Probably sent there by Trump.
FreeJuliusJones Shocker. 😒
Suzette11233 so we have white supremacist, black supremacist, brown supremacist and so on...but most of all we MUST let these terrorists burn down our cities to prove we deserve to be enslaved. Of course, that is why NPR is spreading horseshit. call it what they are ALL TERRORIST.
Congratulations. You found one white supremacist in a sea of black supremacist and Marxists. Great investigative journalism there, NPR.
BitchyKnitter lol, you need to read the article. inb4 the retraction goes unread
Thats BS... You can't believe a damn word that NPR says!! Notice that NPR has NOT spoken out about the violence and destruction committed by Antifa/ BLM !!!
JChrisPires He succeeded!
Meanwhile, in Portland Marxist Antifa is on its 62nd day of rioting against the federal government.
LAObserved If true, he is the greatest agent provocateur in American history!
so he was a cop then
There is NEVER any excuse for running wild and blatantly vandalizing property! Only morons with no sense of self or responsibility will do that!
profmalavet LOL
Yah, no duh
So the 'protesters' have no agency. MonkeySeeMonkeyDo.
I don’t care if a flying unicorn broke the window. Each individual has a personal responsibility to make choices. Just because one persons murders someone and it is witnessed do the witnesses have a right to go murder people.
It only takes ONE bad apple in a barrel to ruin the whole barrel -- people SHOULD know and see that! Quit being what I call 'sheeple' who blindly follow radical thinking without knowing what it is even about! Rumors cause riots, deaths cause delinquency! Be your own strong self!
Wow you mean people on both sides are trying to inflame the situation for their gain and are using rioters as pawns? Never saw that coming
500 million dollars worth of damage in the Twin Cities caused by Umbrella man.
Why is it always 'ties'. He was a white supremacist. You can just say it.
According to realDonaldTrump, “some are very good people.”
Spark to the flame Antifa BLM chaz
'He's anything but a Minneapolis police officer!' -reports the Minneapolis Police Department
St, Paul PD released a video of a cop that doesn't look like the Umbrellaman and appears to be shorter. And his truck's license plate is not readable in any of the shots. I don't see how this is exculpatory for Jacob Pederson yet.
White supremacist ties? So he was definitely a cop then
did they say what his badge number is
The news here is that the media trusts the police.
NPR are trash
Nadler says this is a myth.
But antifa......
What about the rest of the city that burned down? We really gonna do articles about individual stores glass?
The 2020 riot losses are forecast to dwarf the $1.4 billion resulting from the L.A. Riots of ‘92. But you’ve limited your reporting to an individual who broke windows. You’re brilliant! 😂
Go figure? Trump worshippers being less than honest or truthful .
Bricks set out. White supremacists acting like rioters. All used to justify Barr's kidnapping squads. This was all set up. We are being dismantled from the inside out. They aren't going leave elections untouched. AmericaIsInDanger ACLU UN
This man was in Seattle too
FakeNews
Wow, it only took 3 months of searching to actually find an alleged White supremacist...good job. White supremacy is such a problem, they are burning down the cities these White supremacists, crazy!
justkelly_ok Sounds about the sum of it! The peaceful protesters had nothing to do with it! Then just the opportunists as well! Sickening!!!
This is what they do
Not surprised!
No shit
Lets not ignore this story
Of course.
That's what we've been trying to tell y'all 🤔SMH!
This isn’t news. This is slow burn police work after the crimes have been committed.
It was the peaceful protesters who burned it down thou
Not surprised! BlackLivesMatter
Of course!
Not surprised
Uh. No shit.
Anyone surprised?
No duh.
Gotta love how we've all seen hundreds of videos of rioters destroying stuff but because they have some flimsy email about Umbrella man 🤣 this is the story they're running with. You people are so bad at your jobs.
CC: tedcruz we found your man.
If that’s the case, he should be arrested. Anyone committing a crime should be arrested
This is my shocked face.
The narrative is that peaceful protesters are merely sheep who follow one person’s bad actions? Do parents no longer tell their children it doesn’t matter who started it, it’s still wrong? If all your friends jumped off a bridge . . .? JFC
Weird
😂 NPR is turning into straight garbage. 😂
wow what a fucking surprise
dsilverman Is “white supremacist group” a euphemism for “police” now?
Your program inflames racial tensions for globalists. Go away.
Duh
Duh! Our people exposed that bastard on video.
And another one Rlott22
Imagine that.
and minneapolis is in minnesota
White Americans still gonna blame black folks even though there was a lot of non black people destroying things
No surprise here.
This is a hate crime right? He was obviously trying to incite violence against BLM protesters.
No shit!
Malicious and immature child in a grown man's body. World's history is full of them. Just can't seem to reach that point of, actual evolution.
The Umbrella Man made them do it!! I knew there was a reason for all the violence. Hopefully they lock him up for good before he jumps off a bridge and takes countless peaceful protesters with him!
iSmashFizzle Uhhhh we knew that...
Damn realDonaldTrump and DonaldJTrumpJr and TheJusticeDept . This kinda blows your ONLY leftists theory huh?!
JayWarrenWCPO LOL. Buh-loney. The Left and the press will say just about anything. Funny, in Portland, all the Antifa are carrying umbrellas too. I guess it's just a coincidence.
Zero proof to go along with zero credible journalism. Par for the course for npr.
Thousands of people riot, all races, one guy breaks a window, everyone else follows, because they inherently cannot help themselves, because of that one guy. Stack that one next to the contrived my-biker-rape-fantasy report from the Muslim woman in Stillwater three weeks ago.
If all you see if race then this guy fits right in.
Surprise!
Lock em up
So dishonest, NPR, says someone involved with you since the 1970s.
And once again, Conservatives can't do anything but be hateful garbage that project everything they want to do or are doing. 'It's all a false flag to incite violence and sow discord to make white people and cops look bad' 'That's totally not what we're doing to protestors'
Oh, we know why it was done and who. Just like the mysterious pallets of bricks found near protest sites in several different cities. Just plain evil 😔
How long are you going to lie? Most of the rioters were Antifa and criminals and you don't mention them!
Unsurprising. It's been happening from the start.
Communists are white supremacists nowadays
Finally found one of them as media kept claiming at beginning! Congratulations
JackieC1989 Are we truly surprised
Why haven't you contacted the ex wife and other witnesses who claim the umbrella man is Jacob Pederson? It's your job as journalists to call the witnesses and ask questions. Can you answer why you haven't contacted those people?
It was Jacob Pederson. They are going a long way to cover up Pederson doing it.
I heard it first at tracybeanz
Color me shocked 🙄
It seems like early on criminals/radicals started attending the protests with the intent of making it look like the protestors were looting & damaging things. Where I live a guy said as he left, I don't know who those drunk people were but they had nothing to do with the protest.
pragpro Now do the whole country
Qanon perhaps
TomiLahren Your thoughts? So much for ANTIFA
So many are guilty of this.
There was no mention of white supremists today by AG Barr. Will we hear from his about this and earlier far right extremists actually arrested this Summer trying to escalate violence?
You mean he was a cop?
Uhh yeah we knew this a few hours after he did it
THIS STORY IS BS. I STILL BELIEVE IT WAS JACOB PEDERSON. No name, no pic & a Hell’s Angel? Pfft!
Lol yeah ok
I would really love to see the true ratio of these white supremacists in disguise to cause trouble the media keeps reporting on, and anarchist far left agitators.
Oh look another right wing false flag. Must be Tuesday
NoShit
Anyone else notice umbrellas in all the peaceful protest “gone wrong” videos?Hmmmm.....🤨
TodMoore3 Interesting. I saw this report much earlier tonight on either one of the documentary series. Was it American Experience? NPR should credit the source better than that. Takes a while to make a documentary. From The Daily Mail:
Well, well, well!
BichonSnuggles When are the Feds coming to snatch him up?
Yes. We all knew this. Glad to see the police caught up.
Now you believe the police!?
That sounds about white...
No one believes you
trump's very fine people...white supremacists, rapists, child traffickers... remove45 impeachbarr
Barr probably hired him.
Bullshit.
The MSM is saying that the police 'suspect' it is a white supremacist guy. They haven't arrested him. This doesn't really tell us anything. Just what we need more fuel on the fire. Maybe wait until they have made an arrest?
This is my shocked face. 😐
Well, that's one. Can we start on the Antifa mobs trying to burn down federal courthouses now?
A.K.A. a realDonaldTrump supporter.
Lol from a tipster and no charges filed = fake news.
I’m not surprised!
No doubt there are plenty of paid Trump instigators lighting fires, throwing firecrackers, breaking windows, and defacing Federal buildings with graffiti. How else would Trump justify sending in his contracted help?
No shit. We knew this already
You don’t say...
I knew Antifa were white supremacists! Excellent reporting, NPR.
No. The media is race-baiting for the globalist tech&bankers that control. Democrats and Republicans both have figures in this game. They want us divided because that makes it easier to control us. Through fear. wakeup
Welcome to the party, npr. He wasn’t alone and it’s still happening nightly.
That was pretty obvious in the video.
50% chance he writes for npr then
Typical right-wing smear tactics .. same every time.
So, a pardon from Trump if the person is found?
DefundNPR
I’m not surprised
Here we go 🤣
I guess everyone forgot about the second video that came out. The same black guy who was confronting him in the first video, walks right beside him and down a hill talking to him like normal friends in the second video. We all know racists don’t do that. Undercover cops do.
You don’t say.
Of course, par for the course.
...not surprised...
Identified but no arrest = he’s a cop
Timcast nothing?
All the BS and destruction from riots, and NPR still running with the lone-white-supremacist story?!? Geezhus, Soros really owns the lot of you hacks... The last decent NPROmbudsman warned this was happening...
BradScornavacco A police officer? A white supremacist? Stoking tensions? No Fucking Shit.
OverUnderClover Nothing new here, folks. Saw the same crap in '68. (Funny that both times, we had a Republican President.)
Oh wow. What a shock. Who could have possibly predicted this turn of events.
Surrrrrreeee
And I want that young brother who confronted this guy with a blunt and a pizza in both hands to get a pound of top-shelf weed and pizza for life.
Agitators. Instigators. Opportunists. Too many people will use any tragedy to push an agenda or flip a profit.
“Police say...”
One of my nicknames is “umbrella man” because my girlfriends family (who I wasn’t introduced to yet) thought I was part of the CU staff holding graduation....I was holding the umbrella obviously
Stop.
Sure sure
So all the other destruction not a big deal since we got some narrative stuff? Y'all are fucking sick.
Shocker
Black Panthers have ties Louis Farrakhan
Pretty sure we already identified this man as police officer Jacob Pederson
The police literally offered no evidence of this. They didn't find him, they're taking a tip they received anonymously at face value. No police force, but particularly this police force, has any credibility right now, and none of them should be taken at face-value.
I absolutely knew they were false flags. Screw Trump.
Really I thought it was this dude. Jacob Pederson from the St Paul police department.
Color me surprised.
he kinda does
lol out of everything that took place broken windows at an auto zone are worth reporting? I must be missing something.
No surprise in this story but one that needs told
This is pure speculation... they've not actually caught the person.
You don't say...
Whodathunk?
SHOCKING
Good. Jail for him, but we still have 699 more buildings to go that were damaged, burned or destroyed in Minneapolis. We know he likely wasn't responsible for all of them . . . so let's keep going! ;)
Yeah. He caused all the damage in all the cities where there are 'peaceful protests'. Ok. Keep repeating it....some idiots might buy it.
duh.
Why aren't they releasing his name? Why isn't he being charged with a crime?
Shocked!!! Shocked I tell you.....
I'm so not shocked. Not shocked at all. There he was, seeking to destroy. Some people see a mountain and wonder at its beauty, its history, its creation. Others think about how to cut it open and mine it.
Wow. Really reaching trying to paint the violence as something other than insane leftists
Wait.... you mean Antifa RepJerryNadler
Just as rioters in Virginia where confirmed by Richmond police to be outside agitators who were not part of, and some of whom were even stopped by, the protestors. Not that this matter to those trying to malign the demonstrators.
Fucking opportunists like that dude are the reason why peaceful protests get a bad name. White supremacist groups should be labeled domestic terrorist organizations as well as the KKK. They should be treated like any terrorist group. Real fucking talk. Why aren't they though?
So then arrest, conviction, and then about 75 years of jail time, right? If you willfully commit destruction seeking to frame another people and have them be suspected and terrorized then they should put you in a deep, dark hole for a long time.
Wait the same Nazi police that should be defunded?
It is pretty obvious what he was there to do.
Trump writing the pardon and polishing this guys medal of freedom right now
Haha haha
What a load of lies.
Bet he has friends in Portland
A lot of buildings burning too
...to the surprise of absolutely no one paying attention.
Knew it!
This is news?
And yet he will most likely not be arrested and our government will not condemn him.
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