Minneapolis police bodycam footage shows deadly confrontation
Minneapolis police spokesperson John Elder said the 27-second video, as well as the slower version, is the only footage the department will be releasing at this time, citing the ongoing investigation. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is retaining other videos from the Dec. 30 incident, he said.
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Bayle Gelle shows a photo of his son, Dolal Idd, who he says was fatally shot by Minneapolis police Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, near the intersection of 36th Street East and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis. (Jon Collins / MPR News)
looking at how the community has transformed the site of George Floyd’s killing 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis and at the people behind its transformation. It is the culmination of reporting over several months, and a partnership with South High School to engage neighborhood youth in telling their community’s story.
All summer, Isak Douah, volunteered to work security at the intersection where Floyd died. Seeing the trauma there, he decided to develop a mobile app to connect people in his community to mental health care.Photo by Awa Mally
Isak Douah, 22, grew up in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis and graduated from South High School in 2016. He went on to go to the University of Amsterdam to study fashion design. Prior to leaving for college, he spent a lot of time doing work as a youth organizer.
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Talking about the challenges faced by the United States and its allies in a world always ambivalent about democracy, President Joe Biden said a few words the other day that bear directly on his own confrontation with authoritarian forces at home. What he aimed to explain is more important than any specific aspect of his infrastructure proposal or the debate over how to pay for that big bill s cost. It is absolutely clear, said the American president, that this era is a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21
st century and autocracies, by which he meant China and Russia but not only those major rivals. That s what s at stake here. We ve got to prove that democracy works.
Brainerd man pleads guilty for role in MPD Third Precinct arson
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A Brainerd, Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to arson charges in the burning of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct during the unrest following the death of George Floyd last May.
U.S. District Attorney Erica MacDonald announced Tuesday that Dylan Robinson, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit arson.
According to his guilty plea and court documents, Robinson was among the protesters who gathered outside the Third Precinct on May 28. Robinson admitted to breaching the fence around the precinct and helping light a device that an unnamed person threw into the building to start a fire.