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2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Winter Keefer

Amid rumors that President Donald Trump planned to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and that such a pardon would spark unrest, Minneapolis Community Safety Commissioner Toddrick Barnette said in a statement: “Since 2020, we’ve overhauled our emergency management plans and out of an abundance of caution are planning for any eventuality.” It is true that Minneapolis has honed in on emergency preparedness, particularly following a 2022 audit of the city’s response following...

2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Winter Keefer

It’s been five years since George Floyd was killed, and websites and social media continue to shape and reshape the narrative around the 46-year-old Black man’s murder on a Minneapolis street. This is part of a larger conundrum faced by users in the digital age — a lack of clarity between truth, skewed information and flat-out fiction. Here at MinnPost, we partner with Gigafact to produce bite-sized fact briefs to address just that.

2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Winter Keefer

Filming police is a constitutionally protected right, multiple courts have ruled. The first press release from the city of Minneapolis following George Floyd’s murder stated he had died of a “medical emergency.” It was a citizen filming at the scene who first exposed that former police officer Derek Chauvin had leaned on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.

2 weeks ago | midfloridanewspapers.com | Peter Callaghan |Ana Radelat |Winter Keefer

Minneapolis, MN (MinnPost)Presidential elections always have trickle-down effects for states, but never has Minnesota seen a bigger potential change to state government than in this election. If Vice President Kamala Harris wins, Gov. Tim Walz will become vice president, and Minnesota will get a new governor, the current Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. Walz is trying to become the third vice president from Minnesota, something put in motion by his summertime selection by Harris to be her running mate.

2 weeks ago | minnpost.com | Winter Keefer

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has remained stagnant despite calls for its passage. First proposed by Democrats in the U.S. House, the police reform bill passed the House in both 2020 and 2021 but did not pass the U.S. Senate. Even when Democrats held power in the Senate in 2021, disagreements persisted around things like proposed changes to qualified immunity for police officers. Renewed calls for passage of the act came after the police killing of Sonya Massey last July.