Minnesota explodes after an incident of police brutality ends in death.

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including the burning of Minneapolis. Minneapolis is on fire last night, and this morning.

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today. Again, text Ben to 474747. Text Ben to 47 47. Okay, so obviously the big story of the

day is the looting and burning in Minnesota. And that follows hard on what is

another video of an awful incident involving the police. And I think that once more,

it is important to recognize that everyone should be on the same side of this. Really,

everyone should be on the same side of this. What we have seen here, and yet we are not,

what we have seen here is a police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man for four straight minutes while he's being told by people, including the guy who is underneath his knee, that he cannot breathe. Okay, it's really, really ugly, and it's really, really bad. What is not clear is whether it is really, really racial. Now, the implication by the media is always that it is race-driven,

because whenever there's a white officer doing something bad to a black suspect, the implication

is that it is race-driven. But here's the reality. Police officers generally do a very good job.

There are some police officers who are terrible at their jobs and jackasses and treat everybody

horribly. We have not yet seen evidence that this police officer is a racist, as we will see people were trying to manufacture evidence of that yesterday. But this thing has been handled the way it's supposed to be handled. These officers probably will end up standing trial. We don't yet have a medical examiner's report. So this is part of the problem when you're going to put somebody on trial for, say, negligent homicide, for manslaughter, or for murder, or for something like that, you actually have to determine cause of death. So in the Eric Garner case in New York, to which this is being compared, in that particular case, Eric Garner didn't actually die of the quote-unquote chokehold that he was put in. He died because he had an underlying heart condition. He died of a heart attack that was sort of a tendon on the incident itself.

And so that led to sort of complications in a lot of the investigation.

It is not clear at this point that this person died because he had a knee on the back of his neck.

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