13 things about Umbrella Man, the George Floyd protest riot inciter

Dubbed the Umbrella Man, a man helped to incite a riot during the Black Lives Matter protests following the fatal arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States on May 25, 2020. Viral videos show the unidentified man breaking glass of an Auto Zone store in Minneapolis on May 27, 2020.

The Umbrella Man spray painted the words “free s–t for everyone zone” on the AutoZone doors. Looting started after he smashed the windows.

A little later, the store was set on fire. Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder told CNN that the case “remains an open and active investigation.”

Authorities have already identified a man suspected to be the Umbrella Man but he has yet to be charged. Here are 13 things they known about him:

1. He is white.
2. He is a member of the biker gang Hell’s Angels.
3. He is an associate of the Aryan Cowboys, a group out of Minnesota and Kentucky, USA listed by the Anti-Defamation League as a white supremacist prison and street gang.
4. He has a record of criminal convictions for brawling, assault, disorderly conduct, terroristic threats, fleeing police and domestic abuse.
5. He is 32 years old.
6. He is 6’2″.
7. He has a Sprint Spectrum, L.P number, which is 763‐238‐4648.
8. When he incited riot in Minneapolis on May 27, 2020, he was dressed all in black and was wearing a black gas mask while carrying an umbrella.
9. His goal on May 27, 2020 was to “sow discord and racial unrest by breaking out the windows and writing what he did on the double red doors,” a tipster told Arson investigator Erika Christensen.
10. He did not identify himself when peaceful protesters confronted him and questioned what he was doing on May 27, 2020 while he was vandalizing the Auto Zone store.
11. He was confronted on May 27, 2020 and followed by an African American man named Elijah “EJ” Easley.
12. WCCO photojournalist Dymanh Chhoun claimed to have encountered him during the protest on May 27, 2020. The photojournalist said, “I think he is the only one who said something bad to me, 99.9 percent or 100 percent. No one said anything to me except for him. He was the only one.”
13. On June 27, 2020, he was present during an incident in Stillwater, Minnesota, in which Sophia Rashid, a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, was racially harassed by biker gang members wearing Aryan Cowboys vests. He was photographed with the group.