The Battle is at our our Doorsteps.

Liz Collin, of AlphaNews, interviews local photographer & Marketing Executive Jim Birt as he details the events of the MN surge in word, image and video. 


Jim Birt recounts:  When I heard that uh Renee Good had been shot I was down on the scene I think maybe 20 minutes later and... I started shooting the protests. It seemed more locally generated. It was heavily Somali based. I would say probably 80% of the protesters were Somali. There was also a Hispanic element. The leaders of the protests were both Somali and Hispanic.

But I would say that was the first week.

Things started to shift after the second shooting where an officer shot a man in the leg after he had been assaulted with snow shovels and broom handles by I think it was three people. And that was that was anarchy returns to Minneapolis. The Latin Kings were involved in that. Um there were also other gang influences. And I think you see those pictures.

The ICE agents cars had been abandoned and they were left like carcasses to be picked apart and totally desecrated. The image was one of a third world country, but but even more than that. There were no police anywhere, and like I say, there was real danger in the air at that time. 

One of the pictures I took of the of the Pretti memorial was of graffiti that had been sprayed on a building directly across from that memorial and it said death to America. Okay. I've never seen that in the United States before. I've never seen it in Minneapolis. And I found that curious. You know, nobody was paying any attention to that graffiti.

But then when I went to the march, I was shaken to my core. I have seen the face of communism. I have been in China and looked at people that have been at the border being sent back to China. It's the look of the living dead.

What I was hearing in Minneapolis were chants that are the exact same chants that were used in the revolution of 1917.

All power to the people. It's the same chant that Lenin has, which is all power to the Soviets. It was all power to the people, followed by down with deportation.

UP WITH LIBERATION. >> ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. WE WANT EVERYONE to be marching up with liberation. >> DOWN WITH DEPORTATION. 

Every time you see or every time you hear that kind of language in a mass setting, you realize that it is the language of socialism.

This protest now is very different than the Floyd riots. I called those organized anarchy. What's happening in Minneapolis right now is a tightly organized, highly focused ground game that is designed to serve as the battle royale between socialism and the American way of life.