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Video footage from the ongoing riots in Minneapolis shows an elderly wheelchair-bound woman being repeatedly attacked by rioters and looters as she allegedly tries to prevent them from robbing a local Target superstore.
In interviews conducted after the altercation occurred, the woman, identified as Jennifer, claimed she’d just been trying to protest peacefully but felt compelled to intervene when she saw other “protesters” engaging in looting.
Below is footage showing rioters spraying her with what appears to be a fire hydrant as bystanders scream that she’s allegedly stabbing people with a knife:
At the Target in Minneapolis that was being looted tonight during the BLM riot, a woman in a wheelchair was attacked. pic.twitter.com/JxsXTB30xI
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 28, 2020
Below is footage of Jennifer being man-handled after she tried to grab a looter’s cart full of stolen goods:
Video captured earlier of the elderly wheelchair-bound woman who was attacked at the Minneapolis Target during the BLM riot. In a later interview, she said she was trying to do her part in stopping the looting. She was beat on the head & sprayed in the face w/a fire extinguisher. pic.twitter.com/EpcAAF0HLY
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 28, 2020
And below is footage showing someone trying to rob her:
A person tries to steal items in the wheelchair woman’s purse. Someone then runs up from behind and hits her repeatedly on the head. #Minneapolis #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/c1nleTWhGj
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 28, 2020
“I was peacefully protesting and trying to block the way so they couldn’t leave with cartfuls of stuff,” Jennifer later said in an interview with another bystander. “They attacked me from the front and back. They punched me in my mouth, my head, I got punched in the head several times. I got grabbed from behind.”
“They stole my keys. They stole everything they could off of me. I got maced in the face. I got covered with fire extinguisher stuff. I’ve already seen the EMTs and they told me to go home.”
Watch:
Jennifer acting like she just fought in the Battle of Gettysburg 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/mrjoJd32B8
— Control….What You Can Control (@IamKing_RL) May 28, 2020
But instead of returning home, she chose to continue fighting her battle against the looters.
“I’m trying to block traffic so they don’t go back that way,” she said in the clip below:
Jennifer still out trying to be a hero battered and bruised pic.twitter.com/AmejhhHcHP
— Maliik Obee (@MaliikObee) May 28, 2020
While the video footage out of Minneapolis certainly gives the appearance of her being the victim, some critics have claimed she’s a liar. As evidence, they’ve pointed to video footage that shows her briefly standing up and walking.
Watch:
This JENNIFER IS THAT ENOUGH lady grabbed a knife, hopped on an electric wheelchair, and drove prepared to lay her life down for her local target
The weirdest part is….she can walk just fine?!?
😂😂😂
— Daniel Bostic (@debostic) May 28, 2020
But this doesn’t prove anything.
“It seems to come as a shock to many able-bodied individuals when a person with disabilities rises from a wheelchair or an electric cart to grab an item off a tall shelf at the grocery store or sidle into a vehicle,” the disability blog Rolling Without Limits notes.
“Some wheelchair users can walk. Everyone should know this, but those of us with limited mobility who only periodically need to rely on a wheelchair often face challenges when we take the initiative to do things for ourselves.”
Critics have also pointed to the following photo that allegedly shows Jennifer wielding a knife inside Target: (*Language warning)
#Minneapolis #MinneapolisRiot #Minneapolistarget this the cracka that was stabbing black people. Fuck HER ! pic.twitter.com/jhNfWFEc0i
— the king (@fantasma_king11) May 28, 2020
Critics claim she’d been stabbing people in the legs and ramming them with her chair.
For those of you like me who were CONFUSION this morning: that white woman in the power chair in Minneapolis was a civilian trying to “protect” the corporation by stabbing protestors in the legs, ramming them w her chair, and blocking them trying to leave.
— 🧼take your ass in the house🧼 (@Katchin05) May 28, 2020
Combined, the evidence suggests there were no innocent people present in the scenes pictured above — that everybody was guilty of some sort of sin or crime, be it allegedly looting private or allegedly stabbing would-be looters in the legs.
The only real victims, it would seem, are those who’ve suffered financial losses because of the looters’ behavior, not that the looters give a damn.
Some officers are starting to head home. Several protesters remain. Lotsa camera phones out, recording. A man walks up and laments the destruction of the building where he worked, making medical devices and such. Someone nearby says that even days later, people are still hurting. pic.twitter.com/JtxyszRyGi
— Libor Jany (@StribJany) May 28, 2020
“Many of the shops destroyed along this stretch of E. Lake Street are immigrant-owned businesses — many of which were already struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.”
— Scott ‘stay away from me’ Carter (@sacarter2) May 28, 2020
“Looters, who declined to be identified by their full names, told the Star Tribune that they didn’t care whether people agreed with their methods. ‘We have to get their attention somehow,’ one man said as he spraypainted the sidewalk with obscenities,” the Star Tribune reported.
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