Restricting protest, de-regulating police behavior

By David Seitz, TC Daily Planet

Recent actions by the Minneapolis City Council imposed registration requirements on protests during the RNC, and eliminated some restrictions on police behavior.

In the run-up to the Republican National Convention in St.MORE »

Somali youth decry police profiling, harassment

By Edwin Okong'o, Mshale

Amina Harun, center, a University of Minnesota student, moderates a community meeting on Somali youth. (Photo by Edwin Okong'o)

As a Muslim male of Somali descent living in post-September 11 United States, Mustafa Jumale knew that he risked harassment from law enforcement officers and racism from some Americans.MORE »

Bike cops nab bat man

By Ariah Fine, TC Daily Planet
The man wielded a metal baseball bat as he smashed the car windows around six in the evening on 18th Ave S in South Minneapolis on June 19th.MORE »

Federal judge rules that civil rights lawsuit against the MPD should move forward

By Anna Pratt, Minnesota Independent
A federal judge's ruling on Wednesday allows the civil rights lawsuit filed by Sgt.MORE »

Domestic Abuse

By volunteers,
Domestic Abuse was produced by South High students Carey deVictoria-Michel, Saoirse Goff, Sammie Henry, Ariana Marston and Britt McFadden.MORE »

U.S. military will have role in RNC security

By Matt Ehling, with additional reporting by Mira Lippold-Johnson, TC Daily Planet
Since late 2006, local and federal law enforcement agencies have been crafting securMORE »

Fatal stabbing is second homicide

By Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge

Friends of Joseph Sodd III created this memorial near where he was killed on June 18.

Among the flowers and messages of remembrance placed by friends of Joseph Sodd III near the place of his death was John Donne’s poem Death Be Not Proud, written in chalk on the brick pavers along 19thMORE »

The ordeal of Blake Officer: A not so "juvenile" justice system

By Anna Pratt, Minnesota Independent

17-year-old Blake Shamar Officer

Last Dec. 29 Blake Shamar Officer, a 17-year-old African-American, was on his way home from work at a local sandwich shop when he stumbled onto a crime scene in South Minneapolis.MORE »

Rash of street robberies in St. Paul

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
St. Paul police report a rash of armed robberies in the western district in the past two months. The robberies have some common elements: they take place at gunpoint, on the street, and after dark.MORE »

Patrolling the East Side

By Mary Thoemke, TC Daily Planet

(Photo courtesy of Paul Dillon and ACORN)

Kids hanging out… drunks loitering in the streets … slum landlords … drug dealing in broad daylight…jaywalking… pre-teens stealing a skateboard from a fenced in yard.MORE »
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