A White Supremacist? Hoocoodanode?

At the start of the protests following George Floyd's murder by a cop, a mysterious masked man carrying an umbrella started smashing windows and spray painting, "F“free sh%$ for everyone zone," which triggered looting in the area.

Minneapolis police believe that they have identified the individual, and have filed a search warrant targeting a member of the Aryan Cowboys and the Hell's Angels.

So the looting was started by a white supremacist attempting to create violence, arson and looting to discredit the protests, just like those hippie pinko protesters claimed.

So not surprised:

Minneapolis police have identified a suspect whom they believe helped initiate the riots and destruction in the city following the killing of George Floyd.

According to a search warrant filed earlier this week, the man is associated with the “Aryan Cowboys,” which the Anti-Defamation League lists as a White supremacist prison and street gang. The warrant does not label them as a White supremacist group, but describes them as a “known prison gang out of Minnesota and Kentucky.” On its Facebook page, the group says it does not care, “about a person’s color.”

CNN is not naming the suspect, who was dubbed “Umbrella Man” following the demonstrations, as police said no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.

Clearly, they are dotting their "i"s and crossing their "t"s, which, given that it's the Minneapolis PD, is a strong indication that their suspect is white.  If he were black, he would already be in a cell.

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Video of the “Umbrella Man” went viral after protesters in Minneapolis confronted and filmed him on May 27 while he was in the act of smashing several windows of an AutoZone store.

An arson investigator wrote in a search warrant affidavit that the man also spray painted the words “free sh*t for everyone zone” on the doors of the AutoZone. Not long after he smashed in the windows, looting began, and a bit later the AutoZone was set on fire, the affidavit said.

 “This was the first fire that set off a string of fires and looting throughout the precinct and the rest of the city,” Sgt. Erika Christensen, a Minneapolis police arson investigator, wrote in the affidavit, which was filed in court on Monday.

“Until the actions of the person your affiant has been calling ‘Umbrella Man,’ the protests had been relatively peaceful. The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual’s sole aim was to incite violence.”

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 Christensen said in the warrant that police recently received a tip regarding the identity of “Umbrella Man.”

The tipster told the investigator that the man “wanted to sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors.”

Law enforcement are luck that white supremacists just cannot keep their mouths shut. 

Or maybe they weren't looking too hard for the guy, and the tip forced their hand.

Your choice.