DOJ offers few details about ongoing investigation
of Minneapolis police
Posted By: voxpopuli, 9/19/2022 10:52:14 PM
A year and a half after the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, federal officials in Washington are offering few clues about what that review will ultimately determine. “We have not made any findings,” said Ethan Trinh, an investigator in the DOJ’s special litigation section.
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A year and a half after the United States Department of Justice launched an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, federal officials in Washington are offering few clues about what that review will ultimately determine.
“We have not made any findings,” said Ethan Trinh, an investigator in the DOJ’s special litigation section.
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All part of a pilot project to draw people into the warehouse district, near Target Center.
“We’re running this project for them, the people who are already here,” says Ben Shardlow, Urban Director with the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District. “We’re starting with engaging with the people who are here and giving them a good experience, and hoping to grow this project in the future.”
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The filing follows a strike authorization vote held last month, which union leaders say passed overwhelmingly.
Filing an intent to strike gives hospitals a 10-day strike notice before nurses could walk off the job.
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Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to ensure that they’ll be able to get help turning in their ballots, even though the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court said no one other than the voter can return absentee ballots in person. (snip) The state Supreme Court ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal and that only the voter can return their absentee ballot in person to the clerk’s office or a designated site.
Notes with white supremacist overtones targeting Jewish and Islamic communities have been distributed throughout the Twin Cities and its suburbs this summer in a string of incidents involving bags of grain.
The most recent incident occurred overnight from July 24-25 in St. Louis Park, according to city officials and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC). (snip) Although JCRC says these events and prior instances of propaganda have been documented and attributed to a nationally-spread extremist group, local law enforcement officials have not said if they believe the summer 2022 incidents are connected.
A teenager has been criminally charged after he allegedly lit a firework and tossed it into an Eagan movie theater.
Khalid Bedel Hassan, 18, is charged with third-degree assault, fifth-degree assault, threats of violence and two counts of first-degree criminal property damage. (snip) Surveillance video and footage posted on social media showed four male suspects enter the theater, and Hassan light and throw the firework directly in front of the handicap row.
Edina Public Schools says it is investigating an array of slurs that were written at the school’s athletics complex and discovered on Sunday.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS noted that anti-Asian, anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ+ statements were written in chalk across Edina school tennis courts outside Kuhlman Stadium.
“We are saddened and deeply disappointed to learn that this has taken place within our community and on our property,” Edina Public Schools told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS in a statement.
Loved ones gathered Saturday night at the scene of a fatal crash to remember Blessings, the 6-year-old girl who was killed after a suspect fleeing police crashed into her aunt’s vehicle. (snip) The suspect was identified by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office as a 28-year-old Minneapolis man named Hakeem Waheed Muhammed.
Muhammed is a suspect in a murder investigation and had an active murder warrant for his arrest.
More than 40,000 members of the Islamic community came to U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday to celebrate Eid-al-Adha, one of the religion’s holiest traditions.
The turnout was so extreme, organizations tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they had to add an additional prayer service and eventually turn members away. (snip) Abdulahi Farah with the Muslim Coalition explained that hate and attacks geared toward the community had sparked fear.
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this. should. just. about. take. care. of. destroying. minneapolis. couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of commies.. make sure you check the pics of the two impartial investigators.. trinh and sanders.. right out of the Diversity Handbook