My travels this morning took me past East Lake Street in south Minneapolis and past the burned-out ruins of the city’s 3rd precinct police station. The station was given over to the rioters in the early days of the George Floyd uprising nearly five years ago.
The ruins have been left untouched for the past half-decade, with the only change being occasional new signage hung on the security fence surrounding the hulk. I stopped and took a few photos of the latest batch.
The weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal includes an opinion piece by the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez. He argues that America narrowly avoided a Marxist revolution in that summer of 2020. He writes,
In Minneapolis and St. Paul combined, about 1,500 properties sustained severe damage, with nearly 80 completely destroyed. Reporting from Axios found that the destruction resulted in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims.
I’m not convinced that Minneapolis managed to escape that fate.
