{"id":222516,"date":"2020-06-08T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=222516"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:14:39","slug":"whos-to-blame-for-the-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/whos-to-blame-for-the-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s to blame for the riots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scott Nichols, a balloon artist, was going home on his scooter from where protests were taking place in Minneapolis last weekend when he was hit by a rubber bullet fired by one of several riot police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pulled over and put my hands up because I didn\u2019t want to be killed,\u201d said Nichols, 40. \u201cEveryone who knows me knows that I was not on the streets to cause problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Balloon artist Scott Nichols known as \u201cThe Amazing Scott\u201d poses for The Associated Press in his studio in Minneapolis. Photo: Julio Cortez\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nichols, who before the pandemic made a living from entertaining children at birthday parties under the stage name \u201cThe Amazing Scott,\u201d spent two days in jail before being released. He had been charged with criminal charges of participating in riots and violating the curfew.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has cataloged those who clash with the police forces after George Floyd\u2019s death as organized radical left-wing brutes who devote themselves to domestic terrorism, a statement reiterated by U.S. Attorney General William Bar.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats, such as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, initially attempted to blame far-right infiltrators from other states for the riots before retracting those statements.<\/p>\n

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n