Cari Spencer
Reporter
Meet Cari Spencer
Cari Spencer is a reporter for MPR News covering public safety and Minneapolis City Hall.
Cari joined MPR News as an intern in 2024. Previously, she was a reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times and wrote for Crosstown LA, the LA School Report and The 74.
Cari attended the University of Southern California where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Recent Contributions
- Judge grants request for another delay in pending federal consent decree with Minneapolis police
- Minneapolis spent $330k clearing encampments during last half of 2024
- Monitor: Minneapolis police likely to make many year-one goals set for state settlement agreement
- Minneapolis will explore pedestrian plan for George Floyd Square after council overrides mayor’s veto
- Hennepin County reviewing deputies’ actions after video shows them punching man during arrest
- DOJ asks for pause in Minneapolis police federal consent decree
- Minneapolis City Council postpones proposal to move violence prevention funds to county
- ‘My life was destroyed’: Marvin Haynes sues city of Minneapolis for wrongful incarceration
- Some Minneapolis council members want county help with violence prevention programs
- Why some Minnesota law enforcement agencies will not follow Trump’s mass deportation plan
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