Dianne Binns, a former head of the St. Paul NAACP, criticized the crowd gathered outside a Target store after George Floyd’s death.
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Dianne Binns, the former head of the St. Paul, Minnesota, branch of the NAACP, was furious when she showed up at a local Target store to get medication but found it blocked off due to a growing crowd upset over the death of George Floyd.
“This sh-t. St. Paul ain’t got sh-t to do with what happened… and these people don’t give a d*am about George Floyd,” she said, unloading on video, which you can watch below.
“Leave this sh*t alone. These mother f*ckers need to go home,” said Binns. Watch:
Diane Binns,70, of St. Paul is angry at the people here. Binns came here to get medication for her daughter. pic.twitter.com/GA1EJpx4XL
Ricardo Lopez (@rljourno) May 28, 2020
Ricardo Lopez, a journalist with MNReformer, wrote that Binns,70, came to the Target “to get medication for her daughter.” He also noted: “Diane (sic) Binns was president of the NAACP St. Paul from 2016-2018. She was here for the north Minneapolis riots in the 60s,” he wrote. Heavy reached out to Binns for an interview. On her Facebook page and in another video, she expressed that she feels what she called “riots” have dishonored the memory of Floyd, whose death deeply upsets her.
“I have marched with Spike, Tyrone, khaliq, and had the opportunity to watch Malcolm x and Dr. King marches and those were beautiful non violent marches. I love my people but can’t condone the looting and rioting which dishonest George Floyd,” Binns wrote on Facebook.
Other videos showed police were lined up protecting the Target store in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a crowd gathered outside of it. The tense situation came after a different Target store was ransacked on the evening of May 27, 2020 as unrest grew over the death of Floyd.
“St. Paul police have responded to a large groups of people running inside the Midway Target on Thursday, attempting to overtake the store. Video on social media shows other stores in the area being looted,” CBS Minnesota wrote on Twitter.
BREAKING: St. Paul police have responded to a large groups of people running inside the Midway Target on Thursday, attempting to overtake the store. Video on social media shows other stores in the area being looted.| https://t.co/RKstQxt30Mpic.twitter.com/hOJDfmSCI7
— WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) May 28, 2020
Squad cars were being targeted.
