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Police say Luke Oeltjenbruns attacked an employee with lumber over the store s mask policy.
Oeltjenbruns then dragged a police officer from his truck and struck him with a hammer, police said.
A Minnesota man accused of assaulting a store employee over a mask dispute led police on a slow-speed chase, then dragged an officer hanging from his vehicle before striking him in the head with a hammer, according to police and a criminal complaint.
A statement from the Hutchinson Police Department said the violence began April 14 at a Menards home improvement store, where 61-year-old Luke Oeltjenbruns argued with an employee over the store s mask policy, then assaulted the staff member with some lumber.
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Originally published on April 18, 2021 8:04 am
Never has so much attention focused on these quiet, leafy eight square miles along the Mississippi River.
Brooklyn Center, Minn., a small inner-ring suburb of modest postwar houses and apartment buildings, is the latest community to feel the heat of the national spotlight in the days since the death of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man shot during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center police officer who officials say mistook her handgun for her Taser.
Affordable home prices and easy commutes no more than 20 minutes to drive to the downtowns of Minneapolis or St. Paul have long made Brooklyn Center attractive to middle-class families.
HUTCHINSON, Minn. Prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man with felony assault and allege that he attacked a home improvement store employee and a police of
Federal Judge Orders Minnesota Law Enforcement to Stop Assaulting, Harassing Journalists at Protests
18 Apr 2021
A federal judge issued an order stopping Minnesota law enforcement officials and their agents, employees, and representatives from harassing and physically assaulting journalists covering the Daunte Wright protests.
Journalists say police officers pepper-sprayed and shot them with rubber bullets, and detained, and engaged in “other acts impeding the press’s ability to observe and report about protests and law enforcement’s interaction with protestors.”
Quoting from federal court caselaw the Court noted that “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions.” The Court noted that a First Amendment retaliation claim is met where the plaintiff shows that: (1) he/she was “engaged in a protected activity;” (2) the government official took adverse action “that would chill a person of ordinary firmness