Artists Paint Murals On Boarded-Up Lake Street Businesses To Help Community Heal
The wooden boards are a reminder of the unrest in Minneapolis last summer, so local artists are painting the blank boards at Midtown Global Market into colorful murals.
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The wooden boards are a reminder of the unrest in Minneapolis last summer, so local artists are painting the blank boards at Midtown Global Market into colorful murals.
St. Paul police say a 48-year-old man is dead after an altercation outside a downtown bar Saturday night.
Three people were killed and two were left wounded early Sunday in a shooting at a tavern in southeastern Wisconsin, sheriff's officials said.
The victim, from Cass Lake, was ejected after her Chevrolet Impala went off the road and hit a tree. No one else was in the car, and no other vehicles were involved.
State health officials Sunday reported 1,847 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 additional deaths.
The three weeks of testimony at a former Minneapolis police officer's trial in the death of George Floyd were filled with indelible moments, ranging from witnesses breaking down as they relived what they saw to a clinical account by one expert pinpointing on video the instant he believes Floyd died.
The former Santa Rosa home of Barry Brodd, who testified as a defense witness in the Derrick Chauvin murder trial, was smeared with pig's blood and had a severed pig's head dumped on the front porch in an early Saturday morning vandalism attack.
As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joined the crowd intent on keeping the peace and preventing protests from escalating into violence.
The former chief medical examiner for Maryland who testified on behalf of the officer accused of killing George Floyd is a defendant in a federal lawsuit over the death of a man who died under circumstances similar to Floyd.
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters visited the protests for the killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Saturday night.
Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott issued a city-wide curfew for all persons within the City that will be in effect 11 p.m. Saturday until 6 a.m. Sunday.
On April 17 at 3:30 p.m. Officers from Brooklyn Park Police Department responded to a reported shooting.
Multiple food drives and donation drop-offs took place for those impacted by the boarded-up and temporarily closed down grocery stores.
"We're constantly turning on the TV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and seeing people that look like us who are getting murdered with no repercussions," said Pittman, an organizer for A New Deal for Youth.
Attorneys and witnesses have used the words "reasonable" or "unreasonable" often at the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death.
