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(MINNEAPOLIS) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join the review of the fatal shooting of a Black man by Minneapolis police, authorities said Friday, shortly after police released body camera footage that showed SWAT team officers entering an apartment and shooting the 22-year-old man, who was wrapped in a blanket and had a gun…

Andrea Jenkins continues to make history. In 2017, with her election to Minneapolis’ city council, the transgender activist became the first Black openly trans woman ever elected to public office in the United States. Just three years later, she was thrust into the national spotlight as the council member representing the ward where George Floyd…

Former police officer Kim Potter said she mistakenly pulled her gun instead of her Taser, leading to the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright

It wasn’t a huge shock to racial justice organizers in Minneapolis when the votes were counted. During the city’s elections on Nov. 2, 56% of voters voted down “Question 2,” a ballot initiative offering the opportunity to replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a new, community-oriented public safety model. “I was sad and disappointed…

Despite widespread criticism of their police department and its conduct, voters in Minneapolis have decided they do not want a new model of public safety implemented in their city. During Tuesday’s city elections, voters’ ballots included a question asking them if they want to replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a new department of…

Police say preliminary information indicates several people fired gunshots

The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) car crash that led to the death of Leneal Lamont Frazier, the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the Minneapolis teen who filmed George Floyd‘s murder last summer. Leneal Frazier, 40, was reportedly in his car at an intersection in north Minneapolis at around 12:30 am…

Police said Winston Boogie Smith Jr. was wanted on a weapons violation and fired a gun before two deputies shot him

Police said Winston Boogie Smith Jr. was wanted on a weapons violation and fired a gun before two deputies shot him

The 10 people shot included five men and five women, the police department said

As Derek Chauvin was led away in handcuffs, black Minneapolis came together to celebrate and to mourn

With jury deliberations in the Chauvin trial set to begin, attention is now shifting between the verdict and another contentious legal battle