Focus should be on a safer University of Minnesota campus
Student activists seem more focused on a number of unhelpful demands.
By EDITORIAL BOARD, Star Tribune
May 9, 2021 — 6:00pm
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Tensions are running high between some University of Minnesota students and campus police. But student activists have made a number of unreasonable demands while the focus should be on better student-police cooperation and improved public safety.
In a letter to administrators last month, student government leaders demanded that U Police Chief Matthew Clark resign. They argue that as a former Minneapolis police officer, his embrace of MPD culture has caused the "traumatization we see in our local marginalized communities … and having a police chief ... from that department is only making our community less safe and inclusive." Several dozen students and about a dozen faculty signed the letter.