Minneapolis Police

In December 2014, a fake Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter was formed to help Ilhan Omar win her 2016 election to the Minnesota House of Representatives. …

The 2021 Minneapolis city election is coming up, and it’s an interesting year. In addition to the mayor and all city council seats up for election, we’re also going to be voting on three amendments to our city charter. This essay is about question 2: Shall the Minneapolis City Charter…

By MN Crime Watch, October 7, 2021, Updated UPDATE: Family has identified the woman killed as 18 year-old Autumn Merrick. A rolling gun battle that stretched for blocks through downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday night resulted in the death of an innocent bystander when the vehicles finally crashed in the North…

And why are they “flooding the zone with shit?” There’s a chance Minneapolitans may grudgingly re-elect an unpopular mayor who has demonstrably made our community less safe*. Why? Because they are afraid of the public safety charter amendment. …

The nation turns its hopeful eyes to Minneapolis. When I got the call that my friend Kirk Washington, Jr. was dead a thought shot through me like a lightning bolt: “The police killed him.” Kirk was a wise and gentle man who used art and poetry to advance his calls…

A love letter to the people of Minneapolis — How many of you made a protest sign in the last year? As your Sharpie hovered over the paper, or paint brush over cardboard, how did you decide what you would write? What was it that you needed leaders to hear at that moment? What was it that you needed…

I feel bad for Chauvin. He’s taking a fall for the system that created him. Even BEFORE the police academy. He wasn’t a klansman who took a black man into the woods. He was participating in a system that constantly reassured him that this is how you treat Black men…

A bit of background research reveals Derek Chauvin to be more than just your run-of-the-mill violent bigot. Interviews conducted by the Marshall Project with three Minnesotans who he arrested and one who witnessed his arrest of another person all refer to excessive force he used which involved choking. “I can’t…

Before Kimberly Potter reached for either of her weapons, she chose to stop Daunte Wright in the first place. — By Julia Craven Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed on Sunday during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who allegedly meant to use her Taser instead. The Brooklyn Center police chief said the department assessed that the officer, Kim Potter, mistook her firearm for a…