MPD Chief Arradondo withdraws from consideration for San Jose chief
Arradondo had been one of six finalists for the position, according to a document on the City of San Jose s website. Author: David Griswold, Lou Raguse Published: 8:30 PM CST January 25, 2021 Updated: 6:32 AM CST January 27, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS According to a Minneapolis press release, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo has asked that he be respectfully withdrawn from consideration for Chief of Police for San Jose, California.
According to a document on the City of San Jose s website, Arradondo had been one of six finalists for the position and will participate in a forum on Saturday, Jan. 30.
According to a Minneapolis press release, MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo has asked that he be "respectfully" withdrawn from consideration to be San Jose chief.
Time to mourn: As COVID-19 deaths reach 400,000, let s remember those we have lost
President-elect Joe Biden has called for today, Jan. 19, to be a moment of national unity and remembrance.
Betsy Hodges and Tom Tait
Opinion contributors
When the 117th Congress was sworn in on Jan. 3, America had lost 352,000 souls to COVID-19; by Wednesday, when President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the country will have lost more than 400,000.
The higher the death toll, the harder it is to fathom. Nearly one out of every 750 Americans has now died, an entire city’s worth of grief and pain.
We are among the few people privileged to know the living, breathing, beautiful value of such numbers. We were once the mayors of Anaheim, Calif., (population 350,000) and Minneapolis (population 429,000); to us, the unfathomable looks a lot like home, like the histories and dreams, the entire worlds, that are nurtured and built across a city’s grid.
Amid attention and controversy, Minneapolis police union head has no regrets Nearing the end of his term, Lt. Bob Kroll is still full of fight. November 3, 2019 5:35am Text size Copy shortlink:
With President Donald Trump looking on, Lt. Bob Kroll, the frequently outspoken president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, stepped behind the lectern at the Target Center last month and back into controversy’s spotlight.
Trump, in introducing Kroll, said that he had first seen “the great gentleman on television, pouring out his heart, pouring out his guts” while standing up to the city’s liberal establishment.
The sight of the elected union head, who represents the department’s 800-plus rank-and file officers, backslapping with the president onstage unleashed another torrent of public criticism of Kroll and rekindled questions for some about whether real reform will ever take root in the city�
KSTP says Jay Kolls Capitol story fell below its standards
The Twin Cities ABC affiliate says we will do better going forward.
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After criticism from local media, KSTP has said one of its reports on the assault on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday was not in keeping with its editorial standards and says it will do better going forward.
The story by 5 Eyewitness News reporter Jay Kolls featured comments from a local security expert, Michael Rozin, who made claims about the involvement of anti-fascists in the pro-Trump riots at the Capitol, despite there being no evidence thus far that this was the case.