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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said his department's gun investigations unit and the FBI caught wind that gang members were seeking to reemerge in a south Minneapolis neighborhood after a ...
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 is the second U.S. city to reach such an agreement following an investigation started by the Biden Justice Department, despite the department starting a dozen police department ...
Minneapolis's violent crime rate of 1,155 crimes per 100,000 residents is more than three times higher than the state average and nearly twice the national average. [7] From 2008 to 2023, there were a total of 73,702 violent crime reported.
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.
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]
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.
[15] [24] The June 2021 events in Uptown Minneapolis occurred three miles from the 38th Street and Chicago Avenue intersection where Floyd was murdered. Activists had referred to the location as George Floyd Square and converted the street intersection into a memorial site and occupied protest. Early in the morning on June 3, 2021, city workers ...