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Reporter Andy Mannix covers federal courts and law enforcement for the Star Tribune. He joined the paper in January 2016 and previously covered Minneapolis City Hall and statewide criminal justice/Department of Corrections. Mannix teaches at the University of Minnesota journalism school, of which he's an alumnus. He holds a master's degree from University of California-Berkeley, where he focused on data-driven investigative journalism. His work for the Star Tribune includes reports about solitary confinement conditions in Minnesota prisons, the use of sedatives in police encounters and sever...

A redundant prosecution, Star Tribune edition The Star Tribune drew on the work of three reporters and its collaboration with “Frontline” (through its Local Journalism Initiative, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) for Andy Mannix’s story on the federal indictment of Derek Chauvin and his three former colleagues on federal civil rights charges in the death of George Floyd. With all hands on deck, I thought the Star Tribune (and its collaborators) might find someone to comment on the redundancy of the federal prosecution or ...

A redundant prosecution A federal grand jury has handed up indictments of Derek Chauvin and his three former colleagues for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. I inferred from the leak underlying Andy Mannix’s April 29 Star Tribune story that the federal civil rights investigation was originally undertaken as a backstop to the state criminal prosecution of the officers in the event that Chauvin and his former colleagues were acquitted, but such is not the case. Now Derek Chauvin has been convicted of Floyd’s murder and the three other officers face trial on related state charges. The...

For helping torch Third Precinct, he gets prison, $12M restitution St. Paul man sentenced to prison and $12 million restitution for arson of Minneapolis' Third Precinct Branden M. Wolfe of St. Paul also stole police weapons, other gear during last summer's riots in Minneapolis.  May 5, 2021 — 10:35am Text size Copy shortlink: A St. Paul man who helped burn down the Minneapolis Third Precinct headquarters and stole police weapons and other gear during last summer's riots was sentenced this week to 3 ½ ye...

Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in federal court this week.