{"id":630166,"date":"2021-08-10T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=630166"},"modified":"2021-08-10T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:06:29","slug":"dem-official-says-burning-police-station-was-act-of-pure-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-official-says-burning-police-station-was-act-of-pure-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Official Says Burning Police Station Was \u2018Act of Pure Righteousness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-official-says-burning-police-station-was-act-of-pure-righteousness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=630166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.354330708661\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Minneapolis party chairman says &#8216;decorum&#8217; is &#8216;hallmark of white supremacy&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-736x736-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-e1628618066391.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20728737_1408226895881266_7520514649893447306_o-491x491.jpeg 491w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t(Devin Hogan, Minneapolis DFL Chair\/Facebook)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 August 10, 2021 2:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"74.239904988124\">\n<p>The head of the Minneapolis Democratic Party defended his claim that the burning of a police building during the George Floyd riots last summer was an &#8220;act of pure righteousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Devin Hogan, chair of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, argued in an August <a href=\"https:\/\/southsidepride.com\/2021\/08\/02\/the-cops-started-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column<\/a> for <em>Southside Pride<\/em> that the burning of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis during the riots last year was justified as a &#8220;genuine revolutionary moment.&#8221; Police fled the building in May 2020 as rioters broke in and set the building on fire.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/devinforparks\/\">issued<\/a> on Monday, Hogan defended his comments as accurate and truthful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fetishizing decorum over substance is a hallmark of white supremacy,&#8221; Hogan said. &#8220;If antiracism offends your sensibilities then please use this moment to examine the role you play in maintaining and upholding these systems. Which side are you on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the state affiliate of the national Democratic Party, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey (D.) ordered police to flee the Third Precinct as an estimated 2,000 protesters gathered outside, some of whom turned violent and looted nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Death to one of our officers or the general public, that was not a consequence I could have on my watch,&#8221; Frey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/1-year-since-the-fall-of-third-precinct-in-minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> FOX 9.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan, in his column, insisted that the riots were justified because the &#8220;cops started it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They killed George Floyd and took every opportunity to escalate, agitate, and make things worse. The cops are rioting and the people are responding,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Minneapolis party chairman says &#8216;decorum&#8217; is &#8216;hallmark of white supremacy&#8217;  (Devin Hogan, Minneapolis DFL Chair\/Facebook)  Patrick Hauf \u2022 August 10, 2021 2:55 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}