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"Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
The council members stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a city park adorned with massive letters reading "Defund Police." Days earlier, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer a few blocks away, unleashing massive protests nationwide. Now hundreds of protesters had gathered in the park. They wanted justice. They wanted accountability.
City workers began clearing the intersection where the police killed Mr. Floyd just over a year ago. The reopening efforts drew criticism from some activists. MINNEAPOLIS - The bulldozers arrived before dawn on Thursday at the South Minneapolis intersection where the police killed George Floyd.
MINNEAPOLIS-Witnesses struggled to maintain composure Tuesday as they described watching and in some cases taking video of the encounter between George Floyd and Derek Chauvin in an emotional second day of testimony in the murder trial of the former police officer.
Before the white, unmarked cargo van of the Minneapolis Police Department drove down Lake Street, an officer gave Sgt. Andrew Bittell his orders: "Drive down Lake Street. You see a group, call it out. OK great! F*** 'em up, gas 'em, f*** 'em up."
Muhammad Abdul-Ahad and his crew of about 20 Minneapolis "violence interrupters" were outside of Stop N Shop Tobacco at 17 th and Lake Street in Minneapolis when a guy walked up to them looking intoxicated and agitated. "Something was going on," Abdul-Ahad recalled.
At 8:15 a.m. at George Floyd Square, 16 people - mostly women - are perched on chairs, benches and couches in between the idled pumps at the Speedway, which is covered in graffiti and serves as a gathering space now.
The Minneapolis Police Department has been slower to respond to calls this summer than last summer, according to data obtained through a public records request. MPD's strategic analysis group compared response times of high-priority calls in 2019 and 2020 during three time periods: one before the police killing of George Floyd, and two after.
Days after reopening Cup Foods on Aug. 3, co-owner Mahmoud Abumayyaleh was back behind the store counter, talking to customers and his employees while outside, people milled about the makeshift memorial to George Floyd. If you went into the store for a pack of cigarettes, a sandwich or cell phone minutes, you may have noticed the gun on Abumayyaleh's hip.
On the evening of June 25, Michael Grunke was watching TV in his apartment on the 3600 block of Columbus Avenue - about a block and a half away from the George Floyd memorial - when he heard a series of loud bangs and glass shattering. He called 911.
He'd gotten into a fight with his sister and left her home in Hopkins to go to a buddy's, where they got into an argument about the Bible. He didn't have a job or home, he was broke, and he had separated and wasn't able to see his daughters.
The $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by the voting machine company Dominion against Minnesota pillow mogul Mike Lindell Monday is not the first time he's faced a potentially ruinous lawsuit. By late 2003, after more than a decade owning his beloved Victoria bar called Schmitty's Tavern, Lindell had $147,000 in debts, according to court records, and couldn't keep up with the bar mortgage payments.
A church in the historically black neighborhood of St. Paul reopened this weekend after loosened covid-19 rules and days of violent protests nearby after the death of George Floyd. Pastor Dwight Buckner remembers the riots in the sixties and conjures Martin Luther King Jr.'s calming words, while a 2
Forty-caliber Glock - check. Badge - check. Jeff Schafer leaves a small plastic baggie of what he suspects is heroin on his desk, then walks out of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Police Department in Onamia and gets into a black, unmarked SUV on a sunny Thursday afternoon in November.
A four-part series with exclusive data analysis about a northern Minnesota juvenile corrections facility published and broadcast throughout May 2016. The owners closed the operation two months after the first story.
Growing up in Lima, Peru, Luis Canchari lived on a farm and grew up riding his friend's horse, until one day, his friend said he was so tiny, "You should be a jockey." And so he did. He went to jockey school at age 15, then moved to America in 1985 at age 18.
Our investigation into Superintendent Rod Thompson began in March 2017. This special report compiles all of our coverage over two years into one site.