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United Kingdom Riot spills into Brooklyn Center | Free
**NOTE: This story has been updated.**
Wood pallets block the front entrance of the Brooklyn Center Walmart. Riots that started in Minneapolis following the officer-involved killing of George Floyd are believed to have spilled over into Brooklyn Center. (Sun Post photo by Kevin Miller)
A glass repair company arrives at Brooklyn Center’s Family Dollar. At least four businesses are believed to have been burglarized in Brooklyn Center in the early morning hours of May 28. (Sun Post photo by Kevin Miller)
Following the officer-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, riots are believed to have spilled over into Brooklyn Center in the late evening hours of May 27 and into the early morning of May 28.
According to the Brooklyn Center Police Department, officers were dispatched on a call to Walmart just after 1 a.m. on a report of a potential disturbance in the parking lot. Walmart staff reported a significant number of vehicles arriving in their parking lot.
Arriving officers found approximately 50 vehicles driving around the parking lot. These vehicles disbursed as squad cars arrived in the area.
In the next several hours, the police department received several alarm calls from business burglaries in the Shingle Creek Crossing shopping area. Responding officers saw people running out of the businesses on foot. The entrances to the shopping area were blocked off by squad cars as a deterrent to additional riot-related activity.
The parking lot of the Brooklyn Center Walmart was largely empty, besides police cars and shoppers who were turned away before entering. (Sun Post photo by Kevin Miller)
At least four businesses were burglarized, and three arrests have been made in connection to these burglaries.
The burglaries are believed to be connected with ongoing riots in Minneapolis.
“There has been a variety of planning taking place at multiple levels, and we continue to refine our various plans as additional information is learned,” said Garrett Flesland, commander of investigations for Brooklyn Center’s police department.
A police camera sits facing the entrance of the Brooklyn Center Walmart. (Sun Post photo by Kevin Miller)
Both the Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park Walmart locations closed for the day. Wood pallets blocked the front door of the Brooklyn Center location, and officers patrolled the parking lot in squad cars. An officer and Walmart employees blocked the entrance of the Brooklyn Park location.
The Brooklyn Center Cub Foods location appeared to be closed as well as evidenced by its empty parking lot, but the Sun Post could not confirm this by phone, as no one answered the call.
Windows appear to have been broken at the T Mobile store at Shingle Creek Crossing, as well as the Family Dollar store. The T Mobile was boarded up, while the Family Dollar remained open.
The T Mobile store at Shingle Creek Crossing was boarded up May 28. (Sun Post photo by Kevin Miller)
The Brooklyn Park Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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