THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE BEHIND THE RIGHT WING AGENDA
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
More evidence has surfaced that violence at Black Lives Matter rallies in Minnesota was committed by right-wingers intent on starting a race war. This is just the latest in a long line of right-wing terrorists in this country. Is this a story that deserves more of our attention?
And David Vine, author of the new book 'The United States of War" joins Tom. Could we really have been at war 95% of American history? And then Jared Yates Sexton joins Thom to talk about his book- 'American Rule: How A Nation Conquered the World But Failed its People"
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.7 | So do you remember what caused the National Guard to show up in Minneapolis after George |
| 0:24.0 | Floyd was murdered by the police there and people started coming out in the streets |
| 0:28.0 | and protesting? |
| 0:29.5 | It was during a protest somebody firing a gun into the police department while there |
| 0:36.0 | were people inside the police department. |
| 0:39.4 | That provoked the National Guard. |
| 0:43.8 | What provoked the breaking of windows? |
| 0:46.3 | That was a guy smashing windows they called him umbrella man with a crowbar or a baton |
| 0:52.0 | of some kind at an auto parts store. |
| 0:55.4 | We learned a few weeks ago, maybe even longer than that, that umbrella man, the guy was |
| 0:59.7 | smashing the windows who started the whole looting thing was a right wing provocateur. |
| 1:05.7 | And now we've discovered who the guy is who was shooting into the police station. |
| 1:12.0 | This by Andy Mannix over at the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. |
| 1:17.6 | In the wake of the protest following the May 25th killing of George Floyd, a member |
| 1:20.9 | of the Bougalou boys open fire on Minneapolis police third precinct with an AK-47 style |
| 1:26.4 | rifle and then screamed justice for Floyd as he ran away. |
| 1:31.6 | And keep in mind, this is a white guy who wants to start a race war in America, a racially |
| 1:38.0 | based civil war. |
| 1:40.8 | He's 26 years old, he's from born Texas. |
| 1:45.0 | He went all the way from Texas to Minneapolis to try to start his war. |
| 1:53.2 | This is on May 27 and May 28 according to charges, he was wearing a skull mask and tactical |
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