Medcalf: Will powerful white Minnesotans live up to promises made after George Floyd’s murder? Myron Medcalf, Star Tribune
Nearly 100 years before George Floyd was murdered, three African American circus workers were lynched by a white mob after they were falsely accused of raping a white woman, Irene Tusken, in Duluth. An infamous postcard from the scene of the lynchings shows proud white men posing with the bodies of Elmer Jackson, Elias Clayton and Isaac McGhie.
The photo, however, does not show every character. A white priest, William Powers, climbed the light pole that night and attempted to stop the lynchings, per Michael Fedo s book The Lynchings in Duluth. That remains the choice for white Minnesotans today: complicity or empathy.
Medcalf: Will powerful white Minnesotans live up to promises made after George Floyd s murder?
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Josh Skluzacek Created: May 24, 2021 08:16 AM
A Shakopee man who works as a paramedic has been charged with recording and sending messages containing pornographic content of a minor.
Shane Edward Kinney, 40, is charged with possessing child pornography, disseminating child porn, using a minor in sexual performance, and interfering with a minor s privacy.
According to a criminal complaint, Shakopee police were notified by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension about a Twitter cyber tip involving a sexual photo of a man with a young girl. The image was allegedly sent from the suspect s Twitter account to another account, and the suspect account was traced back to Kinney.