Minneapolis city at center of fresh protests has been changing fast John Reinan, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Hajah Konneh, owner of M and B Hair Braiding and Beauty Supply, tidied shelves in her Brooklyn Center store.
MINNEAPOLIS Founded by a member of the Ku Klux Klan and now a city where most residents are people of color, Brooklyn Center embodies the challenges and the promise of a rapidly changing America.
Residents old and new say it s a wonderful place to live, where thriving immigrant-owned businesses have emerged in the wake of job losses in traditional industries and people of all kinds get along. Yet the suburb of 31,000 just north of Minneapolis has become an international symbol of racial turmoil in the week since Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer during a traffic stop.
Minnesota s Twin Cities are once again the national flashpoint over race and policing
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