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Guerrilla gardens take root across Twin Cities Planted by activists, the gardens pay homage to the dead. July 3, 2021 5:04pm Text size Copy shortlink:
George Floyd Square, Daunte Drive and Winston Way.
Initially, activists and protesters claimed these plots of land as areas of protest the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue where a Minneapolis police officer murdered Floyd last year; the corner where a Brooklyn Center police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in April; the parking garage where U.S. marshals shot Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in early June and near where a speeding, unlicensed driver killed protester Deona Marie Knajdek 10 days later.
Driver charged with murder in killing of Uptown protester Nicholas Kraus allegedly was drunk at the time. June 16, 2021 12:37pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Prosecutors filed a murder charge Wednesday against an unlicensed driver who admitted he accelerated toward a protest in Uptown in hopes of vaulting over a vehicle that was meant to protect the people he knew were on the other side.
Nicholas D. Kraus, 35, of St. Paul, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree intentional murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the crash late Sunday that killed 31-year-old Deona M. Knajdek, of Minneapolis, and injured three other protesters.