Video: Suspected Looter Reportedly Shot Dead By Pawn Shop Owner During Riots In Minneapolis

Conservative US ^ | 05.28.2020 | Alex Hall

[Uncle Sham]

"Was the perp black enough to vote for Biden?"

These situations seem to crop up on a four-year cycle that somehow magically happens to be a Presidential election year. Doesn't this make one wonder........

[philled]

Deploy the rooftop Koreans.

[NativeSon]

That’s the story of Philadelphia neighborhoods, since the early 70’s.

[metmom]

The cops are not protecting and serving.

They are aiding and abetting.

They are serving as the publicly paid bodyguards for the anarchists.

[CARTOUCHE]

Yep. A long hot summer indeed. And for the younger folks that weren’t around in 1968, also an election year, the resulting unrest didn’t turn-out well for Dems. Nixon was elected, yes, that Nixon.

[hanamizu]

Let’s see, DFL governor, DFL mayor, black police chief——it’s Trump’s fault!

[FreedomPoster]

I looked it up - it has been 45+ years since Minneapolis has had a Republican mayor.

[hanamizu]

1968, also an election year, the resulting unrest didn’t turn-out well for Dems. Nixon was elected, yes, that Nixon.

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I was around in ‘68. With the assassinations of RFK and MLK, there was a real feeling that the wheels were coming off of the country. The left thought its moment had arrived. Power was theirs for the taking. The ‘people’ were taking to the streets, rioting, and ‘taking what was rightly theirs’. But as universal as it seemed to them, the majority of the nation looked on in horror, and voted against it in November.

[JimRed]

Though few details have yet emerged about the murder – the first casualty linked to the riots – a number of unconfirmed reports, including from bystanders on the scene, suggest the man was shot while attempting to loot a pawn shop in the city on Wednesday night.

It's not murder; it's justifiable homicide (and a public service).

[Svartalfiar]

Future CNN report:

He was a good person only looking for basic supplies for his 5 kids and now they are fatherless. :(

Yea, but those five kids probably have a bunch of other siblings and three or four moms to keep an eye on them and teach them the ways of the hood.

[dennisw]

https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/john-rieple/

John Rieple: Cadillac Pawn & Jewelry Owner Booked on Murder Accusation

By Jessica McBride
Updated May 28, 2020 at 3:14pm

John Rieple, the owner of Cadillac Pawn & Jewelry, a store in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been booked on a murder accusation after a man was found dead of a gunshot wound on a sidewalk near Rieple’s business, according to Hennepin County jail records.

The shooting came amidst a night of major unrest in Minneapolis following the Monday death of George Floyd after a police officer restrained Floyd with a knee pressed to his neck. Anger over Floyd’s death spilled into the streets, as people looted and torched businesses. Videos showed heavy looting at Rieple’s store. A graphic video, which you can watch later in this article, shows the shooting aftermath outside Cadillac Pawn & Jewelry, but be aware that it’s very disturbing. In that video, bystanders claim someone was “shooting from the pawn shop,” which police haven’t confirmed.

Rieple’s arrest came after Libor Jany, a journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, reported, via a police source, that Rieple had shot and killed a suspected looter at his business. Police confirmed in their first press conference on the shooting that they were investigating the theory that the owner of the Cadillac Pawn & Jewelry store shot a suspected looter, but they said they were also investigating other theories they wouldn’t describe. Police spokesman John Elder confirmed at midnight that one person was in custody and one person was dead but named neither.

Elder also said he believes Minnesota’s “duty to retreat” law means a businessowner doesn’t have a right to defend their property with lethal force because it’s not their home. You can read more about the duty to retreat law here.

[IronJack]

I imagine half the stuff in Cadillac Pawn was once the property of the bruthas who “liberated” it during the riot. Or of the white folks in nearby neighborhoods and briefly managed by the bruthas.

[IronJack]

A lot of these rioters are white. Social justice/antifa types. Or guys looking for cheap TVs.

[umgud]

Yeah, there was whites looting with blacks. And I’ll bet you’re right that they were antifa types, prolly bused in.

[sit-rep]

Good!!