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Violent crime surges across Minnesota with record murders STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Protesters gathered in the State Capitol rotunda ahead of the debate to urge the Minnesota House to reject the compromise and pass tougher measures in police accountability in the Public Safety Bill, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in St. Paul, Minn. Listening, right, is Toshira Garraway, founder of Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, whose fiancé, Justin Teigen, a Black man, was found dead in a recycling bin after fleeing from St. Paul police in 2009,...

Created: July 07, 2021 04:58 PM (ABC 6 News) - Four Minnesota law enforcement groups are suing the state over the new use of deadly force law. Lawmakers say those same groups helped write the law in the first place. "My door, in our committee and our committee members, has always been open to law enforcement. We don't legislate onto people. We legislate with our people," Rep. Carlos Mariani (DFL - St. Paul) said.  Mariani, who sponsored the new deadly force legislation said "We feel we found the right balance here and we did so precisely with law enforcement at the table for ...

Jun. 4—PENDLETON — For a second time in a month, LGBTQ+ students, graduates, parents and other allies from central Indiana addressed the South Madison Community Schools' Board of Trustees about a variety of issues, including a directive to have teachers remove gay pride flags, school-based mental health services and students' right to assembly. District officials caused an uproar that reached ...

An Indiana school board of trustees president is under fire after defending the board's order to have LGBTQ pride flags removed from three high school classrooms at Pendleton Heights High School. Last week the school district ordered the flags removed from French, Spanish, and art classrooms, claimi...

Indiana School Bans Pride Flags on Grounds They're Political The school board president said allowing Pride flags could lead to allowing white supremacist flags — and some students and parents are outraged. May 20 2021 8:45 PM EDT Three teachers at a high school in Indiana have been ordered to remove Pride flags from their classrooms on the grounds that the flags make a political statement — and some students and parents are incensed. Connie Rickert, principal of Pendleton Heights High School, located in the town of Pendleton, ordered the removal Tuesday, according to The Herald Bullet...