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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
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I watched them from my office as they approached downtown. Then having wrapped something up, I decided to go down and check it out.
Half marched with them (seemed a little disingenuous to jump in for the last quarter mile) into city hall (I'm actually in one of those photos).
Main observation: the group was overwhelmingly white. Not sure what to make of that. Minneapolis is, obviously, and its activist class perhaps even more so. Also, great to see solidarity. Still, a lot of these people did not appear to be the true owners of outrage. I'm not exactly sure, but I thought maybe the protest started out as being about pay for fast food workers (there was one in Uptown this morning I think), so maybe that's a factor.
Other observation, the MPD did a very nice job escorting them through downtown, blocking traffic and staying out of the way. I wondered whether the phalanx of officers surrounding them in the city hall entry way was intended to be intimidating, but what I saw went smoothly.
Duty called me back to the office before the die in.
