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3 weeks ago | 
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A former Minneapolis Police officer’s defamation lawsuit against the city and its police chief went before the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Wednesday. It came after body camera video spread of Timberlake tasing, kneeling on and striking an unarmed man with a stun gun while working for his previous police department in Virginia in 2020.
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1 month ago | 
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The CDC spends about a billion dollars a year on Domestic HIV Prevention, according to HIV.gov. Much of that money is dispersed to states and local programs through grants, explained Terri L Wilder, an HIV/aging policy advocate for LGBTQ+ elder advocacy and services organization SAGE. A few million dollars and several local programs are at risk in Minnesota, Wilder said.
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1 month ago | 
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Steven Williams was fired by the substitute staffing agency Teachers On Call that employed him, but his state license through the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) remained intact as of this report. Police and other city records newly obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS took us inside Woodbury High School Classrooms that day. Audio and video recordings captured Williams kneeling on the back of a student’s neck in one class.
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1 month ago | 
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A St. Paul family made the tough decision to donate a teenage boy’s organs. Dozens of hospital staff and loved ones lined the walls of Gillette Children’s Hospital on Tuesday for 14-year-old Jerron Chapman’s final sendoff. Chapman has been in critical condition and on life support since he was shot in the head on Friday night, his family said. Officers were called to a home on the 300 block of Bates Avenue around 9:30 p.m. on a report of a juvenile who had been shot in the head.
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1 month ago | 
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There’s a long way to go for trust building of the Minneapolis Police Department. That was the tone of a recent community meeting held by the organization hired as an independent monitor to oversee sweeping court-mandated police reform.
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1 month ago | 
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The weather from Friday into Saturday in the Twin Cities metro was “just a complete 180,” said Afton Alps line cook and snowmaker Connor Cilley. He would know. On Saturday, he was working at the ski area, and 24 hours prior, he worked a shift at a local golf course. “We’re getting ready, taking covers off the greens and kind of getting everything set in motion to open up,” he said. Some golf courses opened last month.
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1 month ago | 
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Violence interrupter hurt in gunfire exchange on Minneapolis' North SideThe founder of Minneapolis-based violence interrupter group 21 Days of Peace confirmed one of his own was hurt in a shooting on Monday night. It happened just after 9:30 p.m. near 36th and Penn Avenues North, and a man in his 30s was taken to the hospital, according to police. He was recovering at home as of Tuesday afternoon after being shot in the shoulder and grazed in the neck, said 21 Days of Peace Founder Rev.
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1 month ago | 
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The Minneapolis Police Department has changed how much it shares publicly online when collecting use-of-force records. Co-founders of a group called the Data / Justice Lab, who have been using that data for independent analysis, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they were beginning to establish some reportable patterns before changes complicated that work.
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1 month ago | 
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Davis also faces charges in two additional, similar cases. Juvenile court records allege the first incident happened in 2023 when he was 16. Late last year, two more women came forward. One reported Davis “hit her in the back of the head with the handgun,” according to the criminal complaint. The case is “rare” and “shocking,” said Commander Eric Skog of the St. Paul Police Sexual Violence Unit on Sunday.
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1 month ago | 
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City officials in Minneapolis on Tuesday reported a “significant” decrease in some violent crime so far in 2025 compared to the same point in 2024. In a press release from Mayor Jacob Frey’s office, the city cited, in part, a 47% drop in robberies, a 40% decrease in carjackings, and 32% fewer shooting victims. The statistics follow a downward trend seen in 2024. The difference so far this year is that there have been fewer homicides as well.
