Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara is lamenting what he's calling a troubling past few months of gun violence that has contributed to a surge in homicides since November unlike anything seen in the first nine months of the year. There have been 21 homicides — 10 in November and 11 so far in December — in the city since Nov. 6, with five of the killings coming in a four-day span from .
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