WE'VE GOT SOME OTHER BUSINESS
TO TAKE CARE OF.
LOVE TO CHECK IN WITH YOU IN A
FEW MINUTES.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE BREAKING
NEWS.
NEW INFORMATION FROM WCCO'S LAW
ENFORCEMENT SOURCES ABOUT THE
GROUPS CAUSING UNROW.
ESME.
Reporter: THIS IS ALL A
RAPIDLY UNFOLDING STORY BUT WE
FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR OUR
VIEWERS TO KNOW WHY THE
VIOLENCE HAS BEEN CONTAINED TO
CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE
CITIES OF MINNEAPOLIS AND ST.
PAUL THAT COULD CHANGE.
MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT
SOURCES TELL WCCO THEY HAVE
INTERCEPTED INTELLIGENCE THAT
THESE HORRIFYING SCENES WE'VE
SEEN FOR THE PAST FEW NIGHTS IN
MINNEAPOLIS AND ZANE PAUL
COULD, IN FACT, UNFOLD IN OTHER
COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES
AREA.
SPECIFICALLY, MULTIPLE LAW
ENFORCEMENT SOURCES TELL WCCO
THEY ARE CONCERNED ANARCHIST
GROUPS COULD TRY AND EXPAND
THEIR DAMAGE ZONE TO OTHER
PARTS OF THE TWIN CITIES THAT
HAVE NOT YET BEEN TOUCHED.
THIS INFORMATION IS COMING FROM
LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES VOWS
THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS.
THE SAME SOURCES TELL US THAT
LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MONITORING
ANARCHISTS ONLINE, MONITORING
THEIR WEB TRAFFIC AND CHAT
ROOMS.
THESE GROUPS ARE TRYING TO
ORGANIZE MORE PEOPLE TO COME TO
MINNEAPOLIS AND OTHER KEY
CITIES WHERE VIOLENCE HAS
ERUPTED, INCLUDING LOS ANGELES
AND ATLANTA.
TODAY WCCO HAS SEEN NATIONAL
GUARD MOVEMENTS IN THE SUBURBS.
WE SHOULD BE CLEAR AND SAY THAT
DOESN'T MEAN THESE SPECIFIC
AREAS ARE TARGETED.
ALSO, MULTIPLE TWIN CITIES
SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES HAVE ALSO
IMPLEMENTED 8:00 P.M.
CURFEWS FOR TONIGHT.
SOME HAD CURFEWS LAST NIGHT.
OTHERS HAVE ADDED THEM TONIGHT.
AN ADDITIONAL SOURCES WE HAVE
TALKED TO SAY THAT THIS IS IN
PART BECAUSE OF CONCERNS THAT
INCIDENTS COULD OCCUR IN THESE
OTHER COMMUNITIES.
AGAIN WE HAVE NO INDICATION
THAT ANY SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES
HAVE BEEN TARGETED, BUT WE
WANTED TO LET YOU AND EVERYONE
WATCHING KNOW THAT THIS SA
POSSIBILITY, THAT THERE MAY BE
DISTURBANCES OUTSIDE OF THE
AREAS WE'VE ALREADY SEEN.
THIS NEWS IS REASON FOR
EVERYONE AS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SURGING TO ABIDE BY TONIGHT'S
8:00 P.M.
CURFEW EVEN IF IT'S NOT IN YOUR
COMMUNITY.
BUT IF YOU CHECK, AN AWFUL LOT
OF COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE OF
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL ALSO
HAVE JUST ADDED 8:00 P.M.
CURFEWS.
ESME, CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS
AND BREAK DOWN A COUPLE OF
THINGS?
YOU KNOW, IT'S SO -- I MEAN,
THE FACT THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT
IS OVERWHELMED, NOT THAT
THEY'RE NOT TRYING, BUT THEY'RE
MATHEMATICALLY OVERWHELMED,
REALLY, REALLY CONCERNING, AND
IT LED TO THE HORROR THAT WE
SAW ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND
LAST NIGHT.
I HAVE TO IMAGINE, TO TALK
ABOUT EXPANDING THE
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF THE
PROTEST AND THE ANARCHY, NOW
YOU ARE STRETCHING THE FORCES
THIN, THE RAZOR THIN.
THAT COULD BE POTENTIALLY
HORRIBLE.
Reporter: I THINK THAT'S ONE
OF THE REASONS THESE GROUPS ARE
TARGETING AND TRYING TO GET
MORE PEOPLE TO COME HERE.
IT'S A CONCERN LAW ENFORCEMENT
DOES HAVE.
IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS I
THINK IT'S RELATIVELY EASY TO
SAY, OH, THAT'S A SECTION OF
MINNEAPOLIS, A SECTION OF ST.
PAUL.
WHAT OUR SOURCES ARE TELLING US
IS THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT KNOWS
THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT
OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVEN'T
BEEN TOUCHED YET COULD BE
TARGETED, AND NOT EVERY
COMMUNITY HAS AN 8:00 P.M.
CURFEW IN PLACE, BUT AN AWFUL
LOT DO.
AND THERE'S A REASON THEY DO.
THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE
SURE THAT THEIR STREETS ARE
SAFE AND THAT NO ONE IS OUT AND
ABOUT IN THEIR COMMUNITIES THAT
ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
AND SO JUST LOOK UP YOUR CITY'S
WEBSITE AND SEE IF THEY HAVE
THE 9:00 P.M.
CURFEW.
EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE IT, AND
ACTUALLY THERE ARE ONLY REALLY
-- THERE ARE MORE CITIES THAT
ARE STARTING TO ADD 8:00 P.M.
CURFEWS THAN DON'T HAVE IT, BUT
JUST BE CAREFUL, AND GO INSIDE
AND WATCH OUT AND BE CAREFUL.
THIS IS A VERY, VERY SERIOUS
SITUATION.
THIS IS BEING COMPARED TO ONLY
TWO THINGS.
THE RODNEY KING RIOTS IN 1992
AND THE RIOTS IN 1968 IN THIS
COUNTRY THAT WERE WIDESPREAD.
THIS IS HOW FAR WE HAVE TO GO
BACK.
THIS IS HOW EXPLOSIVE THIS
SITUATION IS, AND NOBODY, NO
MATTER WHERE THEY LIVE IN THE
TWIN CITIES AREA BASICALLY
SHOULD TAKE THIS FOR GRANTED.
NO, ESME.
AS YOU SAID IT'S AN EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS SITUATION.
YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES,
DO THEY TALK ABOUT AREAS
OUTSIDE OF THE TWIN CITIES?
ARE THEY MOBILIZING TO EQUIP
THEMSELVES TO SOMEHOW HANDLE
THIS?
Reporter: WELL, I THINK IT'S
REALLY ON THE BACKS OF LOCAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
AND THESE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
COMMUNITIES.
AND THEY ARE PREPARING, LOCAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT, LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS.
IT'S SO DIFFICULT.
AND THIS IS AGAIN, WHEN I TALK
ABOUT THE RODNEY KING RIOTS IN
1992, WE HAVE VIEWERS THAT
WEREN'T EVEN BORN IN 1992, I
WAS.
I REMEMBER THEM.
ONE THING THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT
IS SAYING IS THE PROBLEM WITH
THOSE RIOTS IS WHILE THEY WERE
CENTERED ON A PLACE, AN AREA OF
L.A.
CALLED KOREA TOWN, THEY SPREAD
BEYOND THAT, AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT HAD NO IDEA WHERE
THEY WOULD POP UP.
AND THAT'S WHAT WAS SO
DANGEROUS.
AND THAT'S WHERE THERE WERE SO
MANY FATALITIES AND SO MANY
INJURIES AND SO MUCH DAMAGE IN
1992.
A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF
DAMAGE IN L.A., WHICH WAS
AGAIN, THAT'S A LONG TIME AGO.
ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO.
SO IT REALLY IS A VOLATILE
SITUATION.
AND I THINK IT BEHOOVES
EVERYONE TO BE VERY CAREFUL.
