South Mpls. poet stirs the imagination with poem about police reform
Since writing the poem five years ago, Petrus said she reposts the poem after a Black person is killed by police. It often gets shared on social media. After George Floyd’s death, the poem has particularly resonated in her community, which is now steeped in discussions about radically changing the way Minneapolis funds public safety — what many call “defunding the police” — or abolishing the police altogether. Petrus said she knows what it’s like to be targeted by police because she’s a Black person. During the unrest in her south Minneapolis community, her wife was stopped by...
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