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Police watchdog group says Minneapolis uses legal loophole to keep police misconduct from the public Andy Mannix, Star Tribune One Minneapolis police officer made a reckless turn and caused a "preventable" car crash. In a separate case, an officer failed to turn on his body camera while interviewing witnesses at a crime scene. Another officer used "inappropriate language" toward a victim of domestic assault and then never wrote a report on the call. In all of these cases of substantiated rule violations, the officers' supervisors opted for the same remedy: "coaching." Coaching...

Rural Minnesota man who made illegal explosives for Hollywood and NFL sentenced to federal prison January 12, 2021 — 4:33pm Text size Copy shortlink: Federal agents arrested Kenneth Ray Miller, of Brownsville, after reading a profile about his business in Popular Science magazine. The article described Miller as a special-effects wizard who made chemical smoke bombs and sold them to the NFL, air shows, Hollywood movies, the military and foreign militaries. Miller had a record of felony convictions that prohibited him from using som...

Legal experts say the government must prioritize homegrown attackers, but some worry new laws could be abused to target protesters.

Man charged with holding up same Minnesota bank he just got out of prison for robbing James Richard Ardito was convicted in 2009 for robbing the same bank.  December 30, 2020 — 11:08am Text size Copy shortlink: A 51-year-old man faces federal charges for robbing the same central Minnesota bank he was convicted of holding up more than a decade ago. James Richard Ardito, of Andover, was charged with armed bank robbery in U.S. District Court Tuesday for holding up federally insured Deerwood Bank in Garrison, Minn. in July. He made o...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | Dec 21, 2020 | News | 14 In the months since riots erupted in Minneapolis this summer, state and federal court documents have told a story that largely contradicts the widely disseminated narratives from Republican and Democratic politicians of what happened in that chaotic week. President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Minneapolis on radical leftists, saying “antifa” led the riots. Gov. Tim Walz warned that Minneapolis and St. Paul were “under assault” by an “organized attempt to destabilize civil society.” Other public officials said waves of o...