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Woman in wheelchair ‘with knife’ sprayed with fire extinguisher after confronting looters in Minneapolis (VIDEOS)
A white woman in a wheelchair was involved a violent altercation with a group of mostly black people looting a Target shop in Minneapolis. It was one episode in a wider spree of riots amid outrage over police brutality.
One of the videos of the incident apparently shows the backdoor of the shop and looters attempting to carry out stolen goods past the woman, who tries to stop them. A person shouts: “She’s stabbing people, she’s got a knife!” after which the woman is sprayed with a fire extinguisher. It is difficult to tell from the video whether she was actually armed.
Another video shows a white woman wrestling something out of the unidentified shop defender’s hand. A black woman meanwhile comes from behind the wheelchair and punches the woman in the head several times as others shout at her to stop.
The altercation apparently continued. Another video shows the woman in the wheelchair being forcefully dragged away from a cart full of goods as she tries to latch onto it.
Is this the start of Helter Skelter? The Purge? Mixed with a little Dawn of the Dead defending a mall and 12 Monkeys pandemic for good measure? pic.twitter.com/zjNCB69Opw
— Cassandra Fairbanks
