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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]
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.
Local protests in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area quickly spread nationwide in more than 2,000 cities and towns, as well as over 60 countries internationally in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. [3] In Minneapolis, destruction of property began on May 26, 2020, with the protests involving vandalism and arson.
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.
Minneapolis has the green light to proceed with a pilot that will allow the city to use cameras to catch speeders and drivers who run red lights and mail them a ticket. A provision in an omnibus ...
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 ...
Body camera footage released Friday shows a chaotic encounter on a Minneapolis street last month, as officers ran toward a man who just shot one of their own, while bystanders took cover behind a ...
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS [4]) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channel 2.1) and KTCI-TV (channel 2.3), both licensed to Saint Paul.