Published April 13, 2021 at 4:25 PM CDT Listen A year ago, Nikylan Knapper didn’t expect to run for mayor of Maplewood, the St. Louis County municipality where she lives with her husband and three children. But shortly after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, she witnessed something in her own neighborhood that prompted her to begin thinking more seriously about the idea. It started with a gesture of solidarity that Knapper, who is African American, appreciated in the days immediately following Floyd’s death: A white mother and children...