Our reporter mollyhf is covering the Minneapolis protests which continue this morning:
Protesters late Thursday lobbed bottles, trampled a perimeter fence, broke windows and overran a Minneapolis police station that has become the epicenter of outrage over the death of George Floyd. Crowds continued to ransack the station, burn cars and fire guns in the air early Friday.
In other parts of the Twin Cities, police in riot gear clashed repeatedly with protesters overnight. In Minneapolis, at least one person was injured in a stabbing during the chaos, the police said.And on Friday morning, a CNN television crew was arrested as they reported on the unrest. While live on air, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez was handcuffed by the Minnesota State Patrol and led away, as were a CNN producer and a photojournalist.
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