Minneapolis spends more than $1M on barricades ahead of Derek Chauvin trial next week for murder of George Floyd as local businesses fear repeat of BLM rioting
Barbed wire and metal barricades have already been erected around the Hennepin County Courthouse where Chauvin's murder trial is set to start Monday with jury selection
City, state and federal leaders held their last security briefings Thursday just days before the trial kicks off
Dubbed 'Operation Safety Net', the multi-agency security plan includes closures of certain public buildings and streets, extra security from cops and National Guard troops and a public communication plan
and msnbc political analyst robert costa >> -- i'm afraid >> have we lost mike murphy? can you hear us? mike murphy? robert >> i'm here, andrea. why don't you bail me out here and talk about the shutdown. what are you hearing from the sources about whether the president will invoke this emergency procedure which will create legal challenges, but he might have some legal standing, at least, to get past the first court barriers >> we wrote about this in today's post, making a lot of calls sunday to sources, andrea. i got the impression from top officials and advisors to the president now that the shutdown is over you still want -- the president still wants this wall. he's also skeptical of this conference committee on capitol hill that has house members and senate members that will try to meet over the next few weeks to come up with an appropriations deal to fund the wall.