Protesters set Minneapolis police station ablaze while chanting “I can’t breathe.”

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Protesters demanding action over the death of 46-year-old George Floyd took over the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct late Thursday & set the building ablaze.

Video from the scene showed demonstrators chanting “I can’t breathe” & cheering as the building was breached, with alarms blaring in the background.

“This is 400 years of anger,” one protester, Justin Galbraith, said as the flames sent smoke up into the sky.

Others in the crowd echoed that sentiment.

“There are so many innocent lives lost by the police. We protest peacefully & there is no accountability. So this happens,” demonstrator Cecilia Zwak said.

The takeover appeared to mark a turning point in the protests that kicked into a new gear nationwide Thursday, as a bumbling press conference by confused prosecutors risked inviting further rage & violence.  

From New York City to Denver to St. Paul, activists massed in the face of a pandemic to call out what they saw as the wanton killing of Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a Minneapolis cop on Monday. Dozens of arrests were reported by late Thursday afternoon in Manhattan’s Union Square, at least one protester in Minneapolis was said to be stabbed, & along with horrifying video footage of a car slamming into a protester in Denver, gunfire was reported at the state capitol there.

After midnight, the president threatened a violent response. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, & I won’t let that happen,” he wrote on Twitter.

Trump added, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” quoting the controversial Miami Police chief Walter Headley who became infamous in the 1960s for his aggressive tactics in putting down black youths he claimed were taking advantage of civil rights legislation.

At one point in Minneapolis early Thursday evening, a brawl broke out between members of a small group of protesters. Anthony Thornton, 32, of North Minneapolis, said he chased down the alleged assailant.

“I saw him in the fight across the street & saw him run away. People were yelling that he stabbed someone,” Thornton said, while brandishing a pistol.

“I jumped in my Jeep & chased him across the parking lot, pointed my gun at him, & told him to stop. He stopped & walked here with me peacefully.”

“I’ve been here for three days. I’m a protester,” Thornton added.

“Things are not supposed to go down like this. I’m just making sure things stop.” 

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