Tag: Minneapolis riots
Walz administration sued for withholding records on George Floyd riot response
Four years after the smoke cleared from the streets of Minneapolis, questions still linger about how Minnesota's top officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, handled...
Anti-police sentiment dominates meeting on new Third Precinct location
As documented in the just-released movie “The Fall of Minneapolis,” during the riots following the death of George Floyd, protesters attacked and burned down...
Prosecutors argued for shorter sentence in 2020 arson that killed a...
A Rochester man was sentenced to 120 months in prison Friday for burning down a pawnshop during the George Floyd riots in 2020. That...
Two more sentenced to prison for involvement in Minneapolis riots
Two men have been sentenced to prison for arson during the Minneapolis riots of 2020.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Marc Bell Gonzales was...
Progressive groups call for ban on tear gas, end to Operation...
Twenty six elected Minneapolis-area officials and 51 activist organizations have called for a ban on tear gas and other non-lethal crowd control munitions as...
AP reporter on 2020 riots: ‘There was no violence there’
"There was no violence there," Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire told MSNBC viewers, speaking about the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
"In June, these...
State Democrats now want $300 million for Twin Cities riot damage
Minnesota Democrats want $300 million for riot-damaged businesses, double what Gov. Tim Walz requested in his budget proposal.
Last summer’s riots caused an estimated $500...
Rochester man arrested in Mexico after arson in Minneapolis
A man from Rochester, Minnesota, who allegedly set fire to a St. Paul school, Goodwill store and hair salon was arrested in Mexico last...
Walz’s proposed budget calls for $150 million to cover riot damage
Two new proposals have renewed a debate among state leaders on how to pay for the estimated $500 million in damage caused by last...
Emails show Minneapolis mayor exempted NAACP from riot curfews
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey gave National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) "staff and volunteers" permission to disobey curfew orders amid riots...