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A teenager has received a four-year prison term for being an accomplice in a shooting death in St. Paul that set in motion a predawn raid in a downtown Minneapolis apartment that ended with Amir Locke's killing by police. Feysal J. Ali, of Minneapolis, was sentenced Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court after he pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to second-degree murder in connection ...

Minneapolis City Council President Andrea Jenkins and challenger Soren Stevenson share similar views on major issues like affordable housing, police reform and racial equity. However, Jenkins, a self-titled “pragmatic progressive,” isn’t progressive enough for some who want to see a majority on the council that will stand up to a “strong mayor.”

The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown ignited a movement. In 2014, activists poured into Ferguson, Missouri, demanding Brown’s killer, Officer Darren Wilson, be held accountable. The larger Black Lives Matter movement was born on the streets of Ferguson. But Brown’s death is hardly the only time the shooting of an unarmed Black American has led to a racial reckoning. From the LA riots to the Summer of 2020, Black Americans have repeatedly risen up in response to police violence...

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown's death ignited a movement. Here are other instances where police brutality sparked protests.

More than a year after Minneapolis changed its no-knock search warrant policy, community members and advocates reflect on the impacts of search warrants in the city.  Minneapolis changed its no-knock warrant policy in April 2022 to require officers to wait 20 seconds during the day and wait 30 seconds during the night before entering a...

While state lawmakers did not adopt a total ban, the father of Amir Locke says, "Everything has to start somewhere." 

Omar plans to reintroduce legislation to limit no-knock warrants shortly after the first anniversary of Amir Lockes killing during a no-knock raid.

One year after a member of the Minneapolis Police Department fatally shot Amir Locke, the young man's parents have filed a federal civil lawsuit against

The officers were executing a no-knock search warrant for a murder suspect.

The 22-year-old was killed in a police shooting after officers entered the Minneapolis apartment where he was sleeping.