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...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Don’t keep voters in the dark over Big Tech’s role / From Peter Calow, Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis...
...Neely had been in and out of treatment for years. In Minneapolis, activists are also focusing on deeper issues of poverty and inequality that they believe underlay Floyd’s death....
...Only a quarter of black Minneapolis residents own their homes, compared to three-quarters of the city’s white residents....
...Kaminski, a former manager of funds directed at investments in Poland, built his wealth by acquiring office properties in Minneapolis, the largest city in the US Midwestern state of Minnesota....
...protests in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, who was killed after arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
...Communities of colour in Minneapolis and across this country remain over-policed and under-resourced,” Ilhan Omar, the progressive Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, said this week....
...The Twin Cities had braced for weeks for a riot, but on Tuesday, the crowd outside the Minneapolis courthouse buzzed with surprised, happy relief....
...The officer who shot and killed a young black man in a Minneapolis suburb has resigned along with the chief of police, as the city braced for more unrest in response to the incident....
...Prosecutors in Minnesota’s five largest cities adopted the practice of referring police misconduct cases to each other a year ago....
...Garland warned on Wednesday, however, that further reform of the city’s police department could be needed....
...Many residents in the Twin Cities area were already on edge. Minneapolis is in the midst of Chauvin’s murder trial over Floyd’s death, which sparked worldwide protests against racial injustice....
...The Minneapolis City Council launched a second attempt in January....
...Six of the 12 jurors were white, four were black and two were multiracial, according to the Minnesota newspaper The Star Tribune....
...There was a lot of demonstrations. [You think] police, when they interact with black people, people of colour, they will be careful. And then suddenly, again. Same city, same place....
...Several cities and states also held ballot referendums on Tuesday, including Minneapolis, Minnesota, where voters rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd...
...Floyd’s killing sparked civil unrest, with widespread peaceful protests accompanied by some looting and burning in Minneapolis and other US cities....
...The scenes of jubilation in cities including Minneapolis — and the reaction on social media — which greeted that outcome were as much expressions of relief as celebration for an event that had stirred a...
...The city of Minneapolis has reached a $27m settlement with the family of George Floyd, whose death sparked global protests over racial injustice, in one of the highest settlements on record for police misconduct...
...Voters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, rejected a proposal to disband the city’s police department, 18 months after George Floyd was killed there....
...A referendum to disband the police force in Minneapolis, Minnesota, failed on Tuesday night, while in Buffalo, New York, a write-in Democrat defeated a socialist candidate by a 17-point margin in the mayoral...
...The video of Floyd’s death sparked protests in the Midwestern city, then riots that burnt down a police precinct and damaged hundreds of buildings....
...Nine Minneapolis City Council members said in June the city would do that, but it has not happened. The White House says the president, like so many Americans, is following the trial “closely”....
...Protester Kristin Distante, who joined a march on Monday in downtown Minneapolis after travelling to the city to visit family, pointed out that politicians often made over-the-top statements — former President...
...The inquiry announced on Monday came less than a week after the department initiated an investigation into the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin of murdering...
...Federal prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old member of the extremist “Boogaloo Bois” movement with rioting in Minneapolis in the days after police in the city killed George Floyd in May....
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