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Unrest in Minnesota town offers warning to other U.S. suburbs, experts say
Tim Craig, Silvia Foster-Frau
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Pedestrians walk past the Brooklyn Center, Minn., water tower.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn When William Adams moved to this area a few years ago, he joined thousands of Minneapolis residents in transforming Brooklyn Center from the mostly White suburb it once was into one where people of color account for more than half the population.
But as he tried to settle into the community, Adams, who is Black, was always reminded of how Brooklyn Center police used to harass him in the early 1970s when he came to visit his girlfriend, who was White. ....

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