Fires plagued the city in the days after George Floyd’s death, so neighbors formed their own defense forces.
MINNEAPOLIS — It's approaching 2 a.m., and City Council member Jeremiah Ellison is patrolling his neighborhood in a black sedan when the smell of smoke wafts through the open driver's side window.considered the heart of the city’s black community — in recent fires that investigators have deemed “suspicious.
“I was excited to fight over the budget. I don’t think anybody could have pictured this,” Ellison later said, noting that even as a city official, he can’t control how the police respond to the fires and other threats. “This was something I could do.” Ellison — whose father is prosecuting the four fired officers connected to Floyd’s death as Minnesota’s attorney general — has been a constant presence on the streets and at protests, and he started a community patrol the Friday after the incident. While on patrol, he joined a last-ditch — and ultimately unsuccessful — effort to squelch a fire at the Fade Factory barbershop, carrying buckets of water to douse the flames before firefighters arrived.
On Tuesday, dozens of volunteers, mostly African American, filtered into Sammy’s Avenue Eatery, a sandwich and coffee cafe. They checked in with a woman holding a clipboard, who gathered their contact information, asked how many were in their parties, and noted whether they were armed. Almost all of them said they were.
The Minneapolis Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. The Minnesota National Guard said it did not have an official statement concerning the community patrols, but spokesman Scott Hawks said, “Our interactions have been uneventful and cordial with the groups that we have encountered.”On the streets, there was evidence of support.
“We have to be armed to be able to protect them,” he said of community members, noting that he has two young children. “That’s the one reason we are armed. We are a peaceful group, a loving group. We are brothers that banded together to protect our neighborhood.”Hartwell, a music producer who works under the name Sippizone, said he didn’t think the national news media had grasped the level of fear gripping Minneapolis and its black neighborhoods.
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