MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge has sentenced a St. Paul man to more than eight years in prison for burning, looting and damaging businesses during a 2020 protest against police brutality in Minneapolis.
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schlitz sentenced 32-year-old Victor Edwards to 100 months in prison and two years of supervised. A jury convicted Edwards this past August of one count of riot and one count of arson.
According to prosecutors, Edwards drove to downtown Minneapolis on Aug. 26, 2020, to join a crowd that was protested after false rumors that police had killed a man. Surveillance video shows the man shot himself.
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