St. Cloud Times
ST. CLOUD, Minn. A man who took five hostages at a Minnesota Wells Fargo bank on Thursday wasn t armed with a gun but held scissors to a person s neck, destroyed hostages phones and threw cash around the bank during a eight-hour standoff Thursday, according to police and court documents.
Ray Reco McNeary, 35, told both hostages and law enforcement he intended to kill the employees, according to court documents. He said he wanted to “go viral” and to be a “martyr and also threatened to kill himself or put law enforcement in a position to kill him.
The incident put a community on edge as FBI agents worked with local agencies to free the hostages, one of whom spent part of the standoff in hiding, communicating with law enforcement via cell phone, authorities say.
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Days before former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is set to go to trial in connection with the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis police chief said he s continuing to share a message with his team: We can never go back to how we used to operate in the days before. Undoubtedly the events of May 25 have changed certainly not only Minneapolis, but I would argue to say it s certainly changed in our lifetime the role of policing and conversations about race and the American institution of policing forever, Minneapolis Police Department Medaria Arrandondo said.
Arrandondo was one of four black Minnesota police chiefs who participated in a panel discussion Friday about current issues in law enforcement and the future of the profession. St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson was among them.