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7 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal As Trump Leans into Attacks on Mail Voting, GOP Officials Confront Signs of Republican Turnout Crisis Washington Post – Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey | Published: 8/3/2020 Multiple public surveys show a growing divide between Democrats and Republicans about the security of voting by mail, with Republicans saying they are far less likely to trust it in November. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 12:01 pm by Jay Stanley
Customs and Border Protection refused to say which agency had requested use of its Predator border drone over Minneapolis protests in May. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 11:55 am by Herb Lin, Steven Weber
Setting the Stage As the November 2020 presidential election approaches, it is worth imagining how a foreign adversary might attempt to intervene in the domestic political process. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 11:19 am by Douglas A. Berman
A couple of years ago, I noted in this post a local press piece from Minneapolis reporting on low-level marijuana stings being stopped after an extreme racial disparity was revealed ("46 of 47 arrested were black"). [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 4:02 pm by Tom Smith
“All these cities are on fire for the Black Lives Matter movement, and here’s my staff eating a black penis cake as a joke? [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 10:09 am by Tom Smith
It's interesting as well that journalists sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement seem either puzzled by or blithely ignorant of the sharp rise in post-May 25 homicides in cities ranging from New York to Chicago to Minneapolis to Milwaukee to Denver to Los Angeles. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 11:41 am by Sanjali De Silva
 Following demands organized by students, the University of Minnesota recently agreed to cut ties with the Minneapolis Police Department. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 7:20 am by Ronald Collins
But he was also an agnostic who lived in a city where zealous Calvinism had morphed into a more liberal Unitarianism. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 1:36 pm
Meanwhile, the more extreme members of the movement gravitated towards a series of nightly protests around the fence walling the Justice Center and Courthouse off from the rest of the city. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 1:13 pm by Tom Smith
  And the pattern across other crime categories documented in the report suggests that a "Minneapolis effect"—a reduction in policing similar to the "Ferguson effect"—may well be the cause for the recent spike in homicides. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 12:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
When the report was released, American society was wrapped in reexaminations of systemic racism following police actions that resulted in the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other African Americans. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 9:48 am by Paul Cassell
[A "Minneapolis effect" from lack of policing is a possible explanation for the startling 37% increase in murders in major cities in recent weeks.] [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 9:37 am by Jacob Dougherty
The defendants in the suit are the City of Minneapolis, the Chief of the Minneapolis Police, a Lieutenant in the Minneapolis Police Department and president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, the Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety, a Colonel of the Minnesota State Patrol, and two unidentified individuals who acted as agents of the City of Minneapolis and Minnesota State Patrol. [read post]
28 Jul 2020, 10:29 am by Tom Smith
The continuing rioting and destruction erupting in new cities every few days is almost certain to provide yet another profound demarcation of opinion over how to govern the United States and address the problems that have so stirred the country since the killing of African American George Floyd by a white Minneapolis policeman on May 25. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 5:16 am
John’s Episcopal Church for an inscrutable and buffoonish photo op, in which he held up a Bible and said nothing much at all about the cities on fire and the country’s dismal legacy of racism. 'We have a great country,' Trump said. 'That’s my thoughts.' The moment was an emblem of Trump’s presidency: attention-seeking, bereft of empathy, gut over strategy. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 4:55 am
DIS -0.43% and Hearst Corp., dropped 'Live PD' in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.... [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:35 am by Andrea Flores
 While Border Patrol’s foundation of overreach and culture of cruelty predates President Trump, this administration has boasted that it took the proverbial “handcuffs” off the agency, fueling even more abuses and trampling the rights of migrants and border residents alike.Since June, in response to nationwide protests against the murder of George Floyd, CBP deployed surveillance drones and helicopters over U.S. cities, including Buffalo, New York,… [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 10:22 am by Tom Smith
Two teenagers are the latest to face terrorism charges after allegedly helping to break in the windows of an Oklahoma City bail bonds business in late May during the civil unrest that swept the nation in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. [read post]