In a speech that was emotional and inspired as any consoler-in-chief has given, Obama chided the nation for refusing to recognize the things ‘we know to be true’ and being unable to talk about our differences in a productive way — preferring instead to choose sides. Read more →
Two trauma surgeons at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital — one white, one black — had something to say to the nation, so they asked CBS News to interview them this morning. Read more →
There is drawing lines in the sand between police and the public (embodied in the next post down) and there is law enforcement pulling a community closer together. Read more →
When the Minnesota Lynx put on warm-up T-shirts memorializing two black men killed by police, the Dallas police officers killed in an ambush, and calling for us to look to ourselves for change, it was too much for Minneapolis police officers to take. Read more →
MPR’s Tom Weber asked his considerable audience today, ‘What’s next? Where do we go from here?’ in the aftermath of last week’s police shootings, the attack on police officers in Dallas, and Saturday night’s riot on I-94.
Of the many suggestions, ‘equip police with body cameras’ seemed to be among the most common. That’s not surprising, Minnesota politicians have been wrestling with the question even before Jamar Clark was shot to death by Minneapolis police last November.
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The New York Times reports today that people openly carrying their legal weapons at last week’s assault on Dallas police made it tougher for police to fight back. It introduces a new wrinkle in an old debate: If everyone has guns, how do you tell the good from the bad? Read more →
Aside from the fact they’re the only team capable of actually winning games in this town, what separates the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA from almost every man’s team, well, anywhere is they’re not afraid to take a stand and speak out when speaking out is necessary.
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In Los Angeles today, men of color held a march to protest recent police killings and ‘reintroduce’ the community to the police. Read more →
If you’ve followed the numerous posts here about Lee Sjolander, the incredible police chief of Kenyon, Minn., you’ve probably caught yourself wondering in the last 24 hours, “I wonder what Chief Sjolander thinks?”
This morning, via his Facebook account, of course, he answered. Read more →
It’s been a bad 24 hours for words. Read more →
People who have watched a near inexhaustible number of people of color die at the hands of police have used any number of rationales to ignore the obvious disparity in the justice system.
Philando Castile’s killing presents a challenge to them and Rep. Cornish because he appears to have behaved exactly the way he should have. Read more →
The video of the police killing of Philando Castile has cemented Facebook’s increasing role as a primary source of news in the country.
Is there anything wrong with that? Read more →
Henry Howe, an attorney and owner of spot of land in the city’s downtown, is letting goatsbeard flowers grow because that’s what he likes.
Who’s to say he can’t? The Grand Forks Health Department, which has ordered him to mow the land. Read more →
‘The media is complicit in this morbid voyeurism, when it chooses to be,’ one writer says.
If not for the videos, ‘we wouldn’t be having these conversations at all,’ counters another. Read more →
There’s a little something for everybody in the Pioneer Press story about the arrest of a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a person at a gas station on Sunday evening. Read more →
Bob Collins