Mar. 9—On Monday, two more Northland residents were reported to have died from COVID-19. The Minnesota Department of Health reported Monday that a St. Louis County resident in their early 80s died from COVID-19. This is the 266th death reported in the county due to the virus. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported Monday a Douglas County resident died from COVID-19. No other .
After a Black officer died by suicide, leaving anguished videos, another officer recognizes his pain
Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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1of8St. Louis County Police Officer Shanette Hall says she recognized much of the pain in the parting messages of Clyde Kerr III, a sheriff s deputy in Louisiana who died by suicide.Photo for The Washington Post by Joe MartinezShow MoreShow Less
2of8Lafayette Sheriff s Deputy Clyde Kerr III was working as a school resource officer when he died Feb. 1. Kerr was an Army veteran who joined the sheriff s office in 2015.Lafayette Parish Sheriff s OfficeShow MoreShow Less
The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners bungling doesn t get enough attention.
The best defense for beleaguered St. Louis County Police Chief Mary Barton is that she had nothing to do with hiring Police Chief Mary Barton.
On the job for slightly more than ten months, Barton’s tenure can charitably be described as a no-good, dirty-rotten experience for all concerned. But it’s the St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners not Barton that owns the curious decision to miscast her in a role for which she’s so obviously ill suited.
Last spring, the board inexplicably passed over an obviously more qualified candidate in Lt. Col. Troy Doyle, widely viewed within the department (and on the outside) as the likely successor to retiring Chief Jon Belmar. Doyle is suing the county for race discrimination over having been snubbed for a white candidate with less rank and experience in Barton.