MINNEAPOLIS — A Staples man pleaded guilty to helping burn down a Minneapolis police station during civil unrest in the days after the death of George Floyd. The plea was from Bryce Michael Williams, 26, who was among rioters who scaled a fence to get into the station house. Surveillance video shows Williams in a mask, a baseball cap and a hooded sweatshirt, and holding a Molotov cocktail while others lit the wick. The Molotov cocktail then was taken into the building by another rioter, according to the criminal complaint.
Surveillance video. The night of May 28 as the crowd shouted: “Burn it down, burn it down.”
Williams. From Staples, 140 miles northwest of Minneapolis.