Let’s keep going. The historic crush of absentee ballots cast by mail before Election Day meant a dramatic dip in in-person participation statewide. “They’re basically saying it wasn’t intentional,” Counce said. ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony.souffle@startribune.com Police and community members braced for more demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in police custody as both Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as Gov.

It’s just putting all these different communities in a bad position. He is the father of Jamar Clark, the black man shot and killed during an encounter with police in 2015, whose death sparked weeks of protest and encampments outside the Fourth Precinct.“It’s not solving anything, it’s not doing any good.

Let’s get out of here.”“Let’s get the [expletive] out of here.

They immediately began to retreat.“Hey guys, east of us is starting to go,” a man said referring to a fire in the area. “Not those who throw firebombs into businesses.”In north Minneapolis, James Clark was among the dozens who stood by as firefighters extinguished what was left of the Fade Factory, a small barbershop on W. Broadway that was fully engulfed. The city of Minneapolis as a whole has a higher crime rate than the average large US city ranking high on the 24/7 Wall St. review of violent crime rates in major U.S. cities as taken from the FBI’s 2015 Uniform Crime Report. Several officers stood on top of the building watching the mostly peaceful crowd, which was chanting and holding signs. “It don’t make no sense.”He urged protesters to send their message in a different way, but he understands the anger, and things will continue.“This has been building up for over 400 years and it just got to the point where it exploded,” he said.Staff writers Pam Louwagie, Liz Sawyer, Libor Jany, Chao Xiong and Abby Simons contributed to this report. Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the north suburban home of Police Federation president Bob Kroll and his wife, WCCO's Liz Collins, amid protesters continued efforts to get them fired. Some organizations worry they may not survive the economic crisis.

... We as a city are so much more than this. It might take a week. We are asking for your help in keeping the peace tonight." The election will also be taking place amid new reports that foreign actors such as Russia, China and Iran again seek to interfere and at a time of heightened social unrest that the Prockos compared to 1968.“We’ve been married 53 years and never been through anything like this,” Procko said.Staff writers Rochelle Olson, John Reinan, Reid Forgrave and Matt McKinney contributed to this report. Right now.”Some leaders had hoped for a reprieve from unruly demonstrations after authorities announced around midday that fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been arrested and was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But they feared that voting by mail would open up the possibility of voter fraud.“If you’ve got massive vote by mail, I think you’ve got major problems,” he said. Maybe that's something we all need to hear. Still, Simon predicted that a “large majority of outcomes” could be known in most primary contests. “We don’t have a lot of [expletive] out here. Crystal, Robbinsdale were hit hard in the Twin Cities metro area. “I said, ‘Minnesota needs you,’” Gazelka said. Some organizations worry they may not survive the economic crisis. Some in the crowd said they wouldn’t abide by the curfew unless all four officers at the scene of Floyd’s death were arrested and charged.“They can’t arrest us all,”some protesters said. Yet in Minneapolis, where U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., soundly defeated primary challenger Antone Melton-Meaux, Minneapolis’ Brian Coyle Community Center, in … (AP Photo/Richard Drew) —— As expected, the mainstream media and Democrats alike (but I repeat myself) have rushed to blame the Minneapolis riots not on the looters and arsonists who are destroying the city by setting it ablaze building by building and block by block, but on President Trump. The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.” Protesters marched on East Lake Street after beating back a team of state troopers firing tear gas at them during another night of demonstrations over the death of George Floyd. ] They can’t get food or prescription jobs,” he said. “People are fed up,” Mante said.The two said they’re glad Chauvin was arrested and charged but said the third-degree murder count was too low. They said they weren’t worried about getting the coronavirus from voting in person, even though she is a breast cancer survivor and he had quadruple bypass surgery this year. He controls the National Guard. Secretary of State Steve Simon credited counties’ success in recruiting and retaining election judges in addition to the increased mail voting.“That makes a huge difference in terms of lines, in terms of voter satisfaction, in terms of being able to handle a normal voting day,” Simon said.Up to a quarter of all absentee ballots requested had not yet arrived and could still be returned, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Heaping violent contempt on an 8 p.m. curfew declaration and on widespread pleas for forbearance and peace, rioters rampaged across Minneapolis for a fourth night Friday and into early Saturday, creating unprecedented havoc as they set towering fires, looted and vandalized businesses and shot at police officers, all in response to the death of an unarmed black man under a white police officer’s knee on Monday.By early Saturday, Gov.