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The Warehouse District Live series has drawn some unfavorable comparisons to other events that close city streets, such as the popular Open Streets events, the contract of which the city ended in ...
Aftermath of the 2020 Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots Part of George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul Ruins on East Lake Street, May 30, 2020 Date Initial period of unrest: May 26 – June 7, 2020 (13 days); 4 years ago Location Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Minnesota Caused by George Floyd protests Methods Riots, demonstrations, civil disobedience ...
Minneapolis police officers and city officials crews periodically removed barricades to reopen the street to vehicle traffic. [21] The city declared the attempted street occupation a public safety issue. At a press conference on June 15, 2021, several Minneapolis officials commented on the tension between police and demonstrator on West Lake ...
A Minneapolis police officer, another person and a suspected shooter are dead following a double shooting in south Minneapolis Thursday evening that left the Whittier neighborhood in chaos.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Minneapolis was home to some of the largest racial disparities in the United States. The city's population of people of color and Indigenous people fared worse than the city's white population by many measures of well-being, such as health outcomes, academic achievement, income, and home ownership.
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While black Americans make up 18 percent of Minneapolis' population, they were 77 percent of the city's homicide victims in 2022. [1] Similarly, in 2020, 61 percent of the victims (107 out of 175 victims of whom the race of the victim is known) were African-American (the same report states African-Americans make up less than 10 percent of ...
The first George Floyd protests took place in Minneapolis on May 26 – the day after his murder by Minneapolis police officers – and spread to neighboring St. Paul. On May 28, after protests turned violent, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey declared a state of emergency and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated the Minnesota National Guard. [31]