In Minnesota, Black militia group tries to keep the peace
AP Photo/John Minchillo Here’s a headline you don’t see every day. Out in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where nightly protests and sporadic violence have been unfolding ever since the police shooting of Daunte Wright, a new group of players has taken the field. According to the Associated Press, a group of mostly Black civilians wearing body armor, many of whom are armed, has been patrolling the streets in the evenings, seeking to establish some distance between groups of noisy protesters or potential rioters and the police. Calling themselves the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, the group membe...