Protests in Tallahassee Not All Peaceful – Tallahassee Reports

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Tallahassee protests weren’t as “peaceable” as reported in native media, except rocks or bricks thrown by way of downtown enterprise’ home windows are allowed in “peaceable” protests.

Round 5 p.m. Saturday, protestors, reportedly motivated by the dying in Minneapolis of George Floyd and over a number of current officer concerned shootings in Tallahassee, once more took to the Tallahassee streets.

Protestors have been met by rows of state and native police in riot gear close to the Governor’s mansion on the nook of N. Adams And Georgia Avenue. The group chanted “No Justice, No Peace” in entrance of the stoic legislation enforcement officers.

The group then moved up Georgia to Monroe Avenue. Inside seconds the air full of the sound of shattering glass as a rock or brick was thrown by way of one of many giant home windows of Envision Credit score Union at 600 N Monroe St.

Protestors ducked and flinched defensively. One man jumped proper out of his flip flops as he ran to the sidewalk to get away from the commotion. A number of native protestors took this perceived escalation towards violence as their cue to go dwelling. Many of the crowd re-organized in the center of Monroe to begin its march towards the Capitol.

These protestors have been an equal mixture of black and white. Some have been younger faculty children, who appeared like they have been simply having enjoyable. Some have been solemn and anxious with the current uptick in current violence. Reportedly, there have been additionally members of Black Lives Issues, a number of out-of-towners, and random spectators.

The group was now very near the place, earlier Saturday, a truck drove by way of the protestors, hitting a number of protestors, however not critically injuring anybody. The motive force was instantly taken into custody by Tallahassee Police.

As the group once more handed alongside a former credit score union constructing, positioned lower than a block additional alongside the route, one other loud crash crammed the air as somebody threw one other rock or brick by way of one other window.

A Tallahassee police patrol automobile rounded the nook because the final shards hit the bottom. A WCTV digital camera and reporter have been stationed on the nook, simply yards from the damaged window. The reporter was joking and laughing with protestors simply earlier than the window was hit.

The rock/brick throwing incidents have been reported to state troopers gearing up in the car parking zone behind the previous credit score union.
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