The “umbrella man” who was seen on video in Minneapolis smashing store windows with a sledgehammer and encouraging people to steal, has been identified as a person associated with the Aryan Cowboys — a white supremacist prison and street gang.

Police did not reveal exactly how they corroborated the tip, but they said the man also was present during "an incident in Stillwater Minnesota where a Muslim woman was racially harassed by a group of motorcycle club members wearing Aryan Cowboy leather vests."
His actions transformed peaceful protests into danger zones, the affidavit said. He's also accused of spray painting "free s--- for everyone zone" on the doors of an AutoZone before he smashed in the windows. The store was broken into and set on fire, the affidavit said.

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