As massive protests over the killing of George Floyd continue to rage in the Twin Cities, health officials this week said they expected a spike in cases stemming from the gatherings.
School board members and local teacher union press Minneapolis Public Schools to end contract with the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
Gov. Tim Walz called the ongoing mayhem “life threatening” and said he would call up 1,000 more Guard members in the state’s largest-ever civil deployment. The state’s public safety chief said they were battling an “armed … entrenched group of rioters.”
As looting and rioting spread to residential neighborhoods, outrage and heartbreak settle in. Residents and business owners say they feel abandoned by the city. Gov. Tim Walz is promising to restore order Friday and into the weekend.
The criminal complaint says then-officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the neck of a handcuffed, prone George Floyd for nearly nine minutes — including nearly three minutes when Floyd was unresponsive. Bystander video captured much of it.
Effective testing and contact tracing are considered critical components of managing the spread of COVID-19. The job of contact tracing can mean long hours and stressful conversations.
Pictures captured a mostly peaceful crowd marching in the early evening in downtown Minneapolis as looting continued in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood. But after 9 p.m., fire and tear gas had found their way back to Minneapolis.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter Thursday afternoon said he had requested the National Guard help as demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody, spilled across the river.
Chaos gripped the Twin Cities Thursday night into Friday as peaceful protests gave way to spasms of looting and fire. Gov. Tim Walz called up the National Guard amid the unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.