Police Deny Any Connection to Mysterious Minneapolis “Umbrella Man” Saboteur

Regardless of the truth behind who started the fires and the looting, the rage felt by the people of Minneapolis and elsewhere is the result of a deep and profound problem in this country that cannot go on.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Umbrella man Feature

The mysterious "umbrella man" caught on video vandalizing an Autozone store in Minneapolis is alleged in social media postings to be officer Jacob Pederson of the Minneapolis Police Department. An official statement issued by the Twin Cities' police department denied that the person in the video was the individual claimed, stating that officer

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Critical Questions Remain in the Police Shooting of Thurman Blevins

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.

Emma Fiala
By Emma Fiala
Thurman Blevins

MINNEAPOLIS -- On the heels of the recent high-profile police killings of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile, the Twin Cities has lost another black man at the hands of police. On the evening of Saturday, June 23, Thurman “Jun” Blevins was gunned down in an alley near 48th and Bryant Avenues in North Minneapolis, less than two minutes after police

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TSA Whistleblower Reveals Supervisors Instructed Him To Profile Somali Imams

An assistant director for the TSA in Minneapolis blew the whistle on a request to racially profile Somali imams and community members.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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 racially “profile Somali imams and community members visiting” his office. Testifying at a House Oversight and Government

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Police Target Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer That Cost City Big In Lost Lawsuits

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.”

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
BLM protesters outsideof the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct Nov. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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

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5 Black Lives Matter Activists Shot By White Gunmen In Minneapolis

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.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
: Protesters said at least two gunmen opened fire just outside of the Plymouth Ave. encampment.

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

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Minneapolis Officer Photographed Pointing Weapon At Rep. Keith Ellison’s Unarmed Son

“Photo is agonizing for me to see,” Ellison wrote on Twitter. “My son is PEACEFULLY protesting w/ hands up; officer is shouldering gun. Why?”

Raw Story
By Raw Story
Twitter @WintanaMN

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 reported. “Photo is agonizing for me to see,” Ellison wrote on Twitter. “My son is PEACEFULLY protesting w/ hands up; officer is shouldering gun.

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