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A group of protesters swarmed the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct station on May 29 after officers abandoned the facility. (Video: The Washington Post)

Protests, fires rage through the night in Minneapolis

Fires raged through the night in Minneapolis after a group of demonstrators swarmed a police station, which officers had been ordered to abandon as protests intensified in a city rocked by the death of a black man in police custody. Demonstrators breached a door and entered the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station as fires spread, resulting in destruction and further upheaval.