Welcome to the American Winter by Robert F. Worth

From The Atlantic.

“Behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest,” Robert Worth reports from the city.

At times, Worth was reminded of his coverage of the Arab Spring in 2011, in which a series of street clashes between protesters and police “quickly swelled into a much larger struggle against autocracy,” he writes. “As in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Minneapolis has seen a layered civic uprising where a vanguard of protesters has gained strength as many others who don’t share progressive convictions joined in feeling, if not always in person.”

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