Dealing with the loss of a community member at the hands of the police is nothing new in the Twin Cities. Because of this, the community and activists mobilize quickly to rally around those affected and to make their voices heard.
An assistant director for the TSA in Minneapolis blew the whistle on a request to racially profile Somali imams and community members.
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. An assistant federal security director for the Transporation Security Agency’s Office of Security Operations in Minneapolis blew the whistle on a request from his supervisors to
Although the right to film police is protected by the First Amendment, the well-known advocate laments: “They’ve got the guns, and badges, and they want total control of the situation they’re in.”
MINNEAPOLIS --- Perhaps few people are more aware of their constitutional rights than Jordan Kushner, a lawyer renowned for defending the civil rights of everyone from Black Lives Matter activists to people dressed like zombies. Now he's facing trial for exercising his own fundamental First Amendment rights. In November, Kushner attended a
Miski Noor, a media contact for Black Lives Matter, said “a group of white supremacists showed up at the protest, as they have done most nights.”
Minneapolis police were searching Tuesday for three white male suspects who authorities say shot five Black Lives Matter demonstrators, while the family of a black man who was fatally shot by a city police officer called for the dayslong protests outside of a police precinct to end. No one was seriously injured in the shooting that happened
“Photo is agonizing for me to see,” Ellison wrote on Twitter. “My son is PEACEFULLY protesting w/ hands up; officer is shouldering gun. Why?”
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) confirmed on Thursday that the young black man photographed as he was targeted with a weapon by a Minneapolis police officer is his son Jeremiah Ellison, Al Jazeera America
“This is a part of a pattern of police abuse that’s been going on for decades in the city of Minneapolis,” the president of the local chapter of the NAACP told MintPress.
MINNEAPOLIS --- After the weekend shooting of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, protesters camped overnight in a local police station, saying that they won’t leave until they receive justice. Jamar Clark is on life support after the shooting, which took place early Sunday morning at the intersection of James and Plymouth Aves. in North
Star Tribune videographer Mark Vancleave shot video of the altercation during a solidarity rally Tuesday near the Minneapolis Police’s 3rd Precinct building.
The driver who lurched into a south Minneapolis intersection packed with Ferguson protesters was “attempting to flee from the mob” when he ran over and slightly injured a 16-year-old girl as others were atop the hood of his car, police said
