As protests, riots and looting enter the third day in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, police in St. Paul were seen guarding a Target as people throw shopping carts at vehicles.
A former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) St. Paul chapter was at the scene Thursday trying to get medication for her daughter, a reporter for MN Reformer captured on video, and she’s seen expressing her anger with the people surrounding the Target and clashing with police.
“St. Paul ain’t got shit to do with what happened,” Diane Binns says in the recording. “These people don’t give a damn about George Floyd. These motherfuckers need to go home,” she said.
Diane Binns, 70, of St. Paul is angry at the people here. Binns came here to get medication for her daughter. pic.twitter.com/GA1EJpx4XL
Binns, 70, has spent much of her life participating in activism, reflecting on Martin Luther King Jr. and going to sit-ins for garbage workers in Memphis. She told the Spokesman-Recorder in 2017 that “I’ve [grown] up in [racism] my whole life.” She also was in Minneapolis for the riots in the 60s, according to the MN Reformer.
Diane Binns was president of the NAACP St. Paul from 2016-2018. She was here for the north Minneapolis riots in the 60s pic.twitter.com/AuuHIdAxZx
She tells the reporter she went to the rally in Minneapolis the first day after Floyd was killed.
“I thought that it was going to be a rally, but as it got to the end, I wa... (Read more)
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