Jon Collins
Senior Reporter at Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN)
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Senior reporter @MprNews' Race, Class and Communities team. Fellow @niemanfdn '25 @Harvard. Victory gardener. Co-creator of Peabody Award-winning @74SecondsMPR.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Jon Collins
The city of Edina is continuing to deny any responsibility for an incident where police violently restrained a man, tased him and asked paramedics to inject him with a sedative after he called 911 for help while struggling with anxiety in 2019. A spokesperson for the city of Edina also contends that the decision to administer the sedative was made by a paramedic, not a police officer.
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Jul 25, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Jon Collins
Quick ReadKyle Moore’s call for help outside Southdale mall in October 2019 ended in disaster for him after Edina police arrived. He’s now permanently damaged. His family says they can’t get answers from police or prosecutors as to why it happened. Kyle Moore was carrying his Bible, a bouquet of flowers for his mother and a jar of jam for his grandmother when he got off the bus on Oct. 6, 2019, outside Southdale Center mall in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis.
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Jul 18, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Jon Collins
After months of controversy, the Minneapolis police contract proposal with a large wage increase may cross a major hurdle Thursday morning with an expected vote before the Minneapolis City Council. The raises in the contract would make Minneapolis police officers some of the highest-paid in the state, but critics argue that the city should negotiate for more police reform in exchange for the cost.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
southernminn.com | Jon Collins
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Jul 17, 2024 |
newsbreak.com | Jon Collins
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