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Roald Dahl wrote a rhymed version of Little Red Riding Hood where she pulls out a gun and kills the wolf, then tracks down the wolf from the 3 Little Pigs and finishes him, then turns on the last pig and makes him into a suitcase. Children's stories aren't what they used to be.

It wasn't all unanimous support for the destruction, of course. Some pushback is in the story at the top of this thread. And I talked to one business owner who pleaded with looters and got only "F you" in response. He said he wasn't in the right head space to be quoted.

They surveyed the damage around them. “It’s sad to see, but I think it needed to happen,” said Yanez, who grew up near 35th and Cedar and now lives in Bemidji. “It wasn’t going to stop. People were going to keep dying and nothing was going to be done about it.”

“I mean it sucks that it had to come to that but at the same time, change doesn’t happen easily, it never does,” said Mayotte, who’s indigenous and grew up on the southside, shopping at the Cub and old Rainbow Foods and now lives in north Minneapolis.

Looting and burning weren’t “OK,” Rostance said, but they forced her to reckon, again, with the injustice faced by black people in America. (She said she marched in the 60s.) “Our generation, we have something to finish,” she said.

...a heap of rubble. No building nearby had been spared. “It’s devastating to see, but,” said Rostance, pausing, “I think it’s time. Something had to happen. It needs to change. There’s no more messing around.”

Two weeks after Floyd’s death, Karin Rostance, an older white woman from just off Lyndale, walked away from the shell of the Wendy’s on 27th Avenue, through the parking lot of the AutoZone that burned down. The looted Target and Cub Foods were/are closed. The Arby's...

“I’ve never been more appreciative to be here from Minnesota because you feel the unity. I get mad, they’re trying to say it’s Antifa and all that stuff. Why can’t it be a Minnesota citizen who just got freaking fed up about freaking things that are going on in their community?”

Franklin, who lives on the west side of south Minneapolis, said what struck him about the protests — and the riots — was the racial diversity of the crowd. All the races united, and all were angry, he said.

...“we should burn the police station down and burn the whole city up.” When something like that actually started to happen, “I couldn’t do nothing but embrace the moment,” Franklin said. “I think that’s what took the whole country by storm.”

Franklin: “I was right there by the AutoZone. I saw the first spraypaint get on it. I saw the first window get busted out at Target. I witnessed everything.” After police killings of black men in the past, Franklin said people would say, if it happened again...

some quotes that hit the cutting room floor... Keion Franklin, an Arkansas native who moved to Minneapolis when he was 20 in '02, said he sensed when Floyd was killed that the moment was historic, and he made a point to show up every night to see the protests for himself.