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Today we talked about a lot of buildings burning down in Minnesota, which is apparently a thing now, where you go and whenever you get upset about a really terrible event that we we all agree is terrible, a small percentage of the population decides burning all the useful buildings around us is a good way to solve it.

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I'd agree that we disagree.

Okay, okay.

Yes.

I thought so.

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Another crazy night in Minneapolis where protesting, quote unquote, protesting, and that's what it was, Pat.

Protesting.

Right.

When you protest things, a lot of times you protest it by lighting it on fire.

It's just one way to do it.

It's an expression.

Or stealing TVs.

Stealing TVs.

That's another great way to protest.

As we all know, the real cure for racial strife is the new Samsung 4K 63-inch.

That is what really cures it.

I think there was an 80-incher that was taken out of there.

Nice.

From the Target.

That's the way to do it.

I mean, it's despicable.

It's absolutely despicable.

It needs to.

Why don't they put a stop to it?

I don't understand how they just let the items roll out of the store and they just watch it go, wave goodbye to everybody.

It is, it's inexplicable.

There are hours and hours and hours of looting with no one.

No one shows up.

Nobody gets arrested.

It's bizarre.

It is bizarre.

And beyond bizarre last night, Pat, in that the actual police station

was evacuated by the police, and the police drove away so that they could light the police station on fire and destroy it and break into the evidence room and remove evidence,

which I guess anyone.

Now, if you happen to be a criminal, this is a very good development for you because now you don't have the evidence to convict you anymore.

How on earth is this a thing?

I can't.

I've never seen anything like the police station thing.

Yeah, it's

We have seen the looting thing allowed before,

but police just up and leaving.

First, they upped and then they left.

They upped and then they left.

Yeah, they upped and then they left.

And then allowing the station to burn to the ground is a very bizarre development, I think, in the scope of civilization.

It's a strange new twist.

I noticed that as well.

I've never seen anything like it.

Never seen it.

At least they should say looters will be shot on site.

Even if they don't mean it, at least say it.

Let's have some sort of

restraint here on the part of the looters that they might think, okay, well, something might happen to me if I loot.

They know nothing's going to happen to them.

No.

And this has nothing to do with George Floyd, by the way.

No, this has absolutely nothing to do with the murder of George Floyd.

And even his mom has come out and said that.

Please don't destroy our community.

He would hate this.

He would.

Is what his family said.

He would hate this.

So don't be doing this in his name.

You're doing this for you.

It's got nothing to do with it.

You do you, though.

You do you.

If that's burning down a police station, so be it.

You do you.

I believe it was the great philosopher Madonna who said, express yourself.

And

look, if you're going to express yourself by burning down a few dozen buildings, well, who are we to say that that's wrong?

Thank you.

You know, I don't understand.

I'm glad there's people out there defending it.

There's a couple of videos.

Do we have the CNN arrest video from this morning yet?

We're still working on it.

That's coming soon because.

Oh, yeah, they arrested some CNN employees.

Yeah, CNN journalists on the air.

And I have to say, you know,

I love to, we, you know, CNN is a routine

point of contention here on this program and every other place on the right where they annoy us consistently.

This reporter seemingly did absolutely nothing wrong.

He was calm.

He was telling the police he would go wherever they wanted him to go.

And then they arrested him anyway.

And I,

just forget even the right and the wrong of it.

Just the optics of it.

There is a guy on national television who, by the way, is a black reporter

who you're arresting while he's doing nothing.

And it's obvious to everyone that he's doing nothing because he's doing it on camera.

Here's another idea.

Really terrible, horrible, bad thing to do to put your knee on someone's neck for 10 minutes and kill them.

Horrible, horrible thing.

Some additional level of insanity must apply if you're doing it while 10 people are filming you.

What do you think?

Of course the city's going to burn to the ground.

What do you expect to happen?

Now, that does not excuse it, but certainly, like,

what on earth would you think would happen?

Do you think you're going to get away with that?

I don't know.

And, well, they're not going to get away with it, too.

That's the other thing that's going on here is they have been fired.

The investigation is happening.

I fully expect them to be charged.

Not just the guy with the knee on his neck, but the other three as well.

They're going to be charged with something, accessory or negligence.

I don't know.

But they're all going to be charged.

So

why the madness here?

Now, you can understand they haven't charged him yet.

And every day's.

Every day matters, particularly if you're a business owner in this particular area.

You'd really like them to

shoot them.

Let's get them charged.

Because maybe that at least calms it down somewhat.

Yeah.

Now, there was a spokesperson who said we have a lot of evidence to go through,

and there is some evidence that would not indicate a criminal charge.

Now, he's very vague on it.

Yes.

What?

They CG hide the whole thing.

It actually didn't happen.

Both of them are fine.

That was the only thing I could come up with that would not make it a criminal charge.

But, you know, look,

of course, in our system of justice, we need to hear both sides of the story i just can't i can't yeah you know i i i don't think the best fiction writers could come up with a reason as to why this was okay because the video evidence is pretty strong there pretty strong yeah at the very least i think you had mentioned it initially negligent homicide is a yeah it seems like at the very best uh you know it's very possible i think that he planned it no i don't think he got up in the morning and thought i'm going to kill a black person today that that would

odd right it would be an odd thing the best best of the Glenn Beck program.

Patton's doing for Glenn.

We're talking about the developments last night in Minneapolis.

A couple of pretty interesting videos.

Let's start here with the CNN thing because this just happened a few hours ago on the air.

I think it was about 4 a.m.

Eastern.

This happened.

Maybe it was a little later than that, 5 or 6, something like that.

And basically what you saw...

was

a CNN reporter

in the middle of a a situation where there's a bunch of cops.

They're blocking an intersection off.

The CNN reporter is off to the side with a few other officers, and

he's trying to do a report.

There is not anything active going on.

There's not a riot going on in the background.

You're not seeing bottles thrown.

They're all just kind of standing there.

They've seemingly controlled the situation.

As that is happening, this reporter is trying to do a report, and here's what happens.

This is part of the advanced police presence that we saw come over the course of really minutes when the local police showed up at the fire department, or with the fire department, I should say, on that building we showed you that it was burning.

This is among the state patrol unit that was advancing up the street, saying and scattering the protesters at that point for people to clear the area.

And so we walked away.

I'm sorry?

You're under arrest.

Okay.

Do you mind telling me why I'm under arrest, sir?

Why am I under arrest, sir?

As you see, he's not

yelling back, he's not fighting.

Okay.

Is it because they showed the officers?

We told you before that we are with CNN.

That's not what they said.

That is the reason.

Now, there is a car you can hear kind of skid out to the side there.

Everyone kind of turns their head for a second.

If you're just tuning in,

you

are watching our correspondent, Omar Jimenez, being arrested by state police.

His mic is still on the floor.

I can't show why our correspondent is being arrested.

Hang on one second, Allison.

Let's listen into what these officers are saying.

Allison's trying to talk over the whole thing.

They're not saying anything.

They're just walking the perf to the.

He's an American television reporter, Omar Jimenez, being led away by police officers.

He clearly identified himself as a reporter.

He was respectfully explaining to the state police that our CNN team was there and moving away as they would request.

I'll give CNN lots of crap for lots of things.

He's telling the truth here, though.

That is exactly what he was doing.

Yeah, there was no reason for that.

To police custody

on television.

Now they keep arresting people.

This is the producers and cameramen.

Okay, they're arresting the whole crew.

Now they put the camera on the ground and it's sitting on the ground.

They don't realize it's still on.

And it just shows the feet of the CNN recorder.

They're just airing this live on the air.

It's like a backpack unit of some sort.

Fascinating.

Yeah.

But again, steal all the TVs you want.

Oh, yeah, that's totally fine.

But don't do a report near there.

Minneapolis State Police, we believe.

The camera is now on the ground because our cameraman has been handcuffed.

Now, as this goes on, and

we can bring this down,

as this goes on, Pat.

Wow.

The camera.

That's crazy.

The The police clearly don't even understand they were.

I don't know how they didn't get it because he's talking into a microphone and he's doing a broadcast.

But the camera just stays on on the ground the whole time.

I mean, like, they come back to the camera an hour later and it's still on.

It's still on and broadcasting.

Wow.

So they brought three CNN employees to

jail.

Jeff Zucker, the guy who runs CNN, got in touch pretty quickly with the governor of Minnesota, who was like, oh, sorry.

And a half an hour later, they were released.

So it went.

Did we ever find out why they were arrested in the first place?

Their claim was that they asked them to move and they didn't move.

But you can hear on the audio, he's blatantly saying, like, yeah, let me know where I need to go.

Just point the direction.

I'm happy to go that way.

And they will, they don't say anything and then they just arrest him.

Now, they may have told him earlier to leave, and maybe they didn't listen the first time.

And we're only getting the second half of that, regardless.

Take a step back from whatever excuse comes up out of this.

There may be one.

But

optics are important in a situation like this, right?

Like you are arresting a black reporter on here for doing this.

The police don't apparently care about optics.

They don't

in any way because this whole thing has been loaded with bad optics for them.

Yes.

From the very beginning of this.

And

both bad and incompetent behavior.

Yes.

You know,

is it possible, CNN,

these reporters were just arrested just because of bad reporting from CNN?

And this was just, they had the opportunity.

Finally, we got the cops.

We have CNN.

Let's just arrest them.

Is that possible?

It is possible.

Yeah, I think it is.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

We should ask Don

Lemon

which

of these businesses Stu is about

to name,

deserved

to be burned down.

That was a powerful, thank you.

Powerful setup.

Thank you.

Yeah.

It really was.

Because I guess, you know, look, Target, it's a big company.

Uh-huh.

Right?

They've got insurance.

They've got insurance.

Whatever.

It doesn't matter.

Let it burn to the ground.

It was completely destroyed.

Yeah.

It's so?

Autozone.

Yeah, that went down.

How many autozones are there?

A lot of them.

Yeah.

A lot of them.

You know, and yeah, there are.

There was Target, it was AutoZone.

There was an O'Reilly's auto parts as well.

And people are hitting these things, but

you have to also include, you know, Dollar General.

Burned down.

All of them, there was

some damage, fire.

Sometimes it was windows broken, sometimes looting.

Okay.

Twin Lake Dental,

big enemies of the community, apparently.

Home Choice, Tepanyaki Grill, Little Caesars, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, ICC Wireless, Henneman County Human Service Center, J-Clips, Wells Fargo, HD Laundry, City Trends, Total Wireless, Pineda Tacos, which actually

tacos sound really good right now,

Subway, 7-Mile Fashion Express, Fremont Bar, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Quality Tobacco,

Max It Pawn Shop, Hexagon Bar and Target, and Wendy's, which again, Wendy's.

Wendy's.

They serve Frosty's.

It's right before summer.

What are you doing burning that place down?

That doesn't make any sense.

A cool drink in the summer is going to be very valuable.

You never burn down a Wendy's.

And also AutoZone.

Oh, and Cub Foods, the grocery store.

Cub Foods, okay.

Cub Foods.

Yeah.

And burned that down.

And there was that.

You've heard about that affordable housing.

Yes, we talked about that.

There was $30 million.

$30 million affordable housing place.

And then there was the Seven Sigma building and the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct, of course, which we talked about earlier.

And then there's the Dollar Tree.

Okay.

And the T-Mobile store, of course.

And High Lake Liquor.

Okay, but just those.

Just those places.

And along with Speedway, obviously.

And of course, one of the big villains of the community, the East Lake Library.

Oh, thank goodness they got rid of that.

Finally, that went down because those books.

What are they doing?

What are they doing to the community?

Bad things.

Propagandizing people.

Same thing with Precision Auto Tune Care.

Yeah.

Which is also damaged

and or destroyed.

U.S.

Bank,

Dairy Queen,

Papa Murphy's Pizza, Planet Fitness.

Of course, needed to go, though.

Especially if you go to Papa Murphy's Pizza, you might need Planet Fitness.

Well, now they're both gone.

You don't have to worry about it anymore.

Okay, sure.

Domino's Pizza, obviously.

Urban Forge Winery and Cider House.

The Gandhi Mahal.

restaurant, of course.

Oh,

minority-owned.

Minority owned stick.

They did put a sign and it did not help them.

Car X tire and auto.

No one's going to be able to get their car fixed in this community for a very long time.

They did a lot of auto stores down here.

Ace Hardware.

No, so they can't look for the place with the helpful

hardware man anymore, right?

I think that's exactly

what I'm saying.

Ace is the place with the helpful hardware store.

I know, something like that.

Minnesota Transitions Charter School, which is a real cause of

the foundational racism in this country.

Yes.

Londro Max, also.

White supremacists.

Right.

I think.

What does bleach do to your clothes?

Turn them white.

Yes.

Yes.

Sauterberg's

floral and gift.

Eastlake Clinic, obviously.

But that's.

Is that about it?

That's the.

Well, that and Seward Pharmacy.

Oh, okay.

And, oh, Electra Toon Auto Care.

And Walgreens.

You know.

Also, Elevated Beer, beer, wine, and spirits.

We should point that out.

That's another one.

And Schooner's Tavern.

All of these

damaged or completely destroyed.

Seward Co-op, too.

Okay.

And we shouldn't forget Midtown Global Market, which is also

damaged or destroyed.

Well, people have been complaining about their racism for a really long time.

That's true.

I guess so.

Yeah.

Brive Health.

Okay.

Foot Locker.

BMO Harris.

TCF Bank.

Studio 23,

DTLR,

Uptown Pond,

La Familia Skate Shop, Another Target, Chicago Lake and Liquor, East Lake Liquor,

Ing Ingabretson's, I don't know what that is, Freewheel Bike, Homdy Restaurant, Hudson's Hardware, Birchwood Cafe.

How much time do we have on the show?

I'm a little nervous.

CVS, Timberland, Sonny's, Thurston's Jewelers, Bonadir Pharmacy, Sephora, GameStop, Indulge and Bloom, HM, The Apple Store,

Urban Outfitters, Smokeless Northeast,

another

AutoZone.

Just like

these poor AutoZone people.

Buzzmart,

Town Talk Diner.

And then in St.

Paul, Lloyd's Pharmacy, Target, on third Target, CBS, a second CBS, Max at Pawn Shop, Verizon, Noodles and Company, Vitamin Shop, Big Top Liquors, TJ Maxx, Sprint, Midway, Napa, T-Mobile, Lian Chin Midway, America's Best Contacts, Furniture Barn, BP, Walgreens, Discount Tire, O'Reilly Auto Parts, TCF Bank, Lululemon, Speedway, Anya Dance, Springboard for the Arts University, Seven Mile

Sportswear, Fire and Ice Chicken, Liquor Barrel, Moeller's Jewelry, The Fixery, Bowl A Ethiopian Restaurant, and Enterprise University.

That is the current and probably partial list of the businesses that have gone down completely in flames or have suffered heavy damages.

Okay, why do you care about them more than you care about George Floyd?

I don't care.

I don't.

I don't

say that.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

You know, I know this is a tough time for everybody.

We were just talking about how rough the economy is and

how difficult everybody,

you know, the difficult situation everybody's going through right now.

I got a call from a friend of mine last night whose sister

was writing an ATV in May, had a really bad accident and

had a severe head-to-head injury

was,

and you know, Justin, he used to work here as his sister.

Camera guy.

Yeah, a great dude, great dude.

And he,

they had to lift a helicopter to the hospital.

They thought there was a good chance she wasn't going to make it.

Went into

ICU and went into a coma initially.

They thought it was going to be a five-day situation.

She came out in like two days.

They're saying her recovery has been miraculous so far, but there's like a super long way to go.

Other side of this, she has no insurance.

So they are talking about a helic,

you know, a helicopter flight, two weeks in ICU.

The rehab ahead of her, they're estimating six weeks of rehab at $147,000.

This is all

at this point seemingly out of pocket.

So if you want to help out, a family member of a really good guy, a guy who helped put this show and many shows here at the Blaze on the Air

before

he's moved on to bigger, better things.

But

they're in real need right now.

I'm going to post this on my Twitter account.

Maybe, Pat, we can do it on yours as well.

And just get some attention to this.

If you have a few extra bucks

and you want to help someone out here that has helped put these shows together, but also is really struggling right now in a situation that is

impossible to face.

I mean, imagine in the middle of this whole thing where so many people are losing jobs and all of this.

It's an impossible time for this to happen.

There's never a good one.

But we wish the whole family well.

And there's a GoFundMe.

You can search for it if you want.

For Kima, K-I-M-A is her name,

for Kima.

And we will put the link up all over the place wherever we can to try to help them out.

Because, you know, look.

Yeah, that's hard.

These situations are impossible to deal with in normal times.

To try to deal with one of these in the middle of this, I mean,

it's got to be impossible.

But anything you could do, this audience has provided miracles before to family.

So

if you have the means, if you have the chance, whatever you can do would be great.

And we'll post that up at Twitter at Stu DoesAmerica.

And I realize when you do something serious and then you have to say at Stu DoesAmerica at the end, it loses a little bit of its power.

But anything you could do would be fantastic.

Greatly appreciated.