Bob CollinsCharles Kinsey was in the street to retrieve an autistic man who’d wandered away from the center where he lives. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Crime and Justice
Thomas Fairbanks argued that he didn’t actually cause Dewey’s death. He claims the decision of Dewey’s family did. Read more →
Pro tip: When playing Pokemon Go, don’t drive your car into a police cruiser. Read more →
Two stories in the news today provide a foundation for more discussion on the state of mental health care in Minnesota. Read more →
Here’s a question for the muttonhead who stole El Burrito Mercado’s corn roaster over the weekend: What are you going to do with a corn roaster? Read more →
We never tire of the police/public safety dispatches from the mean streets of Minnesota’s smaller communities.
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People who think the justice system doesn’t take the death of pedestrians at the hands of distracted drivers seriously enough have another piece of evidence to support their claim.
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A dispute over an unmowed patch of land has an attorney arguing an ordinance requiring it be clipped is unconstitutional. Read more →
Six years ago, a settlement ended a lawsuit against a brutal and out-of-control Metro Gang Strike Force, that regularly broke down doors, constitutional rights be damned. Some of the victims received payouts with the $3 million settlement. But required police training to change relationships with communities of color never happened. Read more →
A Metro Transit bus driver, who kicked a man off his bus for not paying the fare, and then allowed several passengers to get off the bus to beat the man up — the fare-jumper had grabbed onto the bus’ bumper to prevent it from going anywhere — is immune from being sued, a federal appeals court judge panel has ruled in a decision filed today. Read more →
Bus drivers for DART — Dallas Area Regional Transit — were told not to go downtown when a gunman ambushed police, killing of them.
So Don Washington went downtown to help get people out. Read more →
It says something about the state of the nation, perhaps, that the room was packed in Owatonna yesterday when FBI special agent Joseph Malhoit gave a talk to the Steele County Safety Council on how to survive a mass shooting. Read more →
Garnette Cadogan, from Jamaica, loves to walk. Then he moved to the United States and the joy was diminished. He’s a black man in America.
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Vi Hart, famous — and adored — for her YouTube videos explaining complex math, has a point in her latest video. Even with all of the hours of news coverage, and the barrels of ink in newspapers, the surrounding coverage of rising tensions ignores the complex problems behind complex problems. They’re not doing all that well with the simple context either. Read more →
When a group of mostly black protesters met a group of mostly white protesters in Dallas, it could’ve gone badly. It didn’t. Read more →