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Looting for Winston Smith or someone like him (3) I want to add notes to our coverage of Winston Boogie Smith, the target of a North Star Fugitive Task Force arrest operation that cornered him at the top of the parking ramp adjacent to Uptown’s Seven Points (better known as Calhoun Square). Smith appears to have engaged in a gun battle with members of the task force when they sought to arrest him on an outstanding warrant this past Thursday afternoon. • Doing the work that the Star Tribune won’t do, Kyle Hooten provides background on the deep thoughts of Winston Smith in the Alpha News...

MINNEAPOLIS — Protests continued Friday night over Thursday's fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man by law enforcement in Minneapolis' Uptown area. Activists blocked traffic at busy Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street during the Friday evening rush hour. And some Uptown businesses closed early Friday for fear that the vandalism and looting that occurred overnight Thursday might be repeated. The man, ...

I correctly named Winston Boogie Smith as the decedent in Minneapolis's police-involved shooting Thursday afternoon. Smith was the target of an arrest operation conducted by the Joint Law Enforcement Fugitive Task Force in the parking ramp adjacent to Calhoun Square in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. Picking up where I left off yesterday morning, I want to add the following notes to update the story. • The Star Tribune reported

MINNEAPOLIS — Protests continued Friday night over Thursday's fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man by law enforcement in Minneapolis' Uptown area. Activists blocked traffic at busy Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street during the Friday evening rush hour, and Minneapolis police officers on bikes moved in to try to take control of the busy intersection. A Friday night vigil was planned near the site ...

U.S. Marshals confirms man fatally shot by law enforcement in Uptown The Marshals Service says the man was suspected of being a felon in possession of a gun. Author: Mike Griffin The U.S. Marshals Service says that a man was fatally shot by law enforcement in Uptown, Minneapolis Thursday afternoon. In a statement, the service claims that members of a "task force" were trying to arrest a man wanted on a warrant for being "a felon in possession of a gun" at the parking ramp at West Lake Street and Girard Avenue, adjacent to what was formerly known as Calhoun Square.