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A new lawsuit alleges the city of Minneapolis' violence prevention office used an illegal procurement process to "arbitrarily" select recipients for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grant money. The Neighborhood Safety Office, formerly called Office of Violence Prevention, also used federal COVID-19 relief money to improperly pay lobbying and political causes, according to the lawsuit, .