“Cops are less likely to tread on people’s rights when there’s other armed Americans with them,” an armed white man told a local news organization in Minneapolis.
Additionally, another far-right group, identified as accelerationists, has been reported as having a presence at protests.
The group encourages their followers to attend the protests with the purpose of attacking Black people, "exacerbating the ethnic tensions" and starting a "race war," Vice reported.
While demonstrations continue to be inundated with white supremacists, protestors continue to call out those with the mission to destroy communities and damage property, Buzzfeed News reports.
"When we aren't asking people to destroy things in our name and people do it anyway, we know that this is something that's going to blowback on us," a Black activist told BuzzFeed News.
