Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz embedded himself in the Minneapolis protests-turned-riots and said the majority of protesters he spoke with supported an "orgy of violence," including "killing cops."
Horowitz, who previously covered police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, spoke to "peaceful protesters" Sunday night in the city where George Floyd died while in police custody on Memorial Day. He found that, while they acted peacefully, they supported the looting and violence that started there and continued in other cities.
"There's a media narrative that tries to divorce the violence and the protesters and what I actually found is that they're two sides of the same coin," Horowitz explained. "Not that the protesters engaged in violence, but that the protesters agreed that violence was a necessary means to an end. Their perverted version of justice."
"What I saw was really shocking," Horowitz said. "It was a city on fire and full of chaos. Anarchy was reigning across the streets, and you saw police officers chasing roving bandits all over the city."
"We're attacking big, known businesses like Apple, Boost ... Target, Walmart, Best Buy, all that s--t, Gucci ... Whatever the f--k you all like, you better lock your doors!" one protester tells him in the video. This protester calls the looting "slavery money ... So when we take it back or we burn it down, yeah. We're getting back what's ours. You won't give it up? Okay, you ain't having it no more."
When Horowitz asks if the U.S. should defund the cops, a protester replies: "I think we should kill them b--ches."
As Horowitz was packing up for the night, he saw a man defending his home from being looted and burned. Another man took a thick stick, and started attacking him and throwing rocks at him: "It looked to me that if he continued that he would've killed this guy." Horowitz said he approached the man with the stick and yelled to him. "Luckily, he walked away."
Horowitz said he and his crew were threatened at least twice in Minneapolis.
"My biggest takeaway is the media malpractice on how these protests are being reported as if they have nothing to do with the violence," he said. "The reality is different in that the protesters are justifying the violence and the anarchy and the rage."
Horowitz contends: "The thesis of the protests is that our country is fundamentally racist and that our police departments are fundamentally racist but the data doesn't support that thesis."
Horowitz, who previously covered police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, spoke to "peaceful protesters" Sunday night in the city where George Floyd died while in police custody on Memorial Day. He found that, while they acted peacefully, they supported the looting and violence that started there and continued in other cities.
"There's a media narrative that tries to divorce the violence and the protesters and what I actually found is that they're two sides of the same coin," Horowitz explained. "Not that the protesters engaged in violence, but that the protesters agreed that violence was a necessary means to an end. Their perverted version of justice."
"What I saw was really shocking," Horowitz said. "It was a city on fire and full of chaos. Anarchy was reigning across the streets, and you saw police officers chasing roving bandits all over the city."
"We're attacking big, known businesses like Apple, Boost ... Target, Walmart, Best Buy, all that s--t, Gucci ... Whatever the f--k you all like, you better lock your doors!" one protester tells him in the video. This protester calls the looting "slavery money ... So when we take it back or we burn it down, yeah. We're getting back what's ours. You won't give it up? Okay, you ain't having it no more."
When Horowitz asks if the U.S. should defund the cops, a protester replies: "I think we should kill them b--ches."
As Horowitz was packing up for the night, he saw a man defending his home from being looted and burned. Another man took a thick stick, and started attacking him and throwing rocks at him: "It looked to me that if he continued that he would've killed this guy." Horowitz said he approached the man with the stick and yelled to him. "Luckily, he walked away."
Horowitz said he and his crew were threatened at least twice in Minneapolis.
"My biggest takeaway is the media malpractice on how these protests are being reported as if they have nothing to do with the violence," he said. "The reality is different in that the protesters are justifying the violence and the anarchy and the rage."
Horowitz contends: "The thesis of the protests is that our country is fundamentally racist and that our police departments are fundamentally racist but the data doesn't support that thesis."
