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After Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis, America exhaled. It avoided another round of the last decade’s reciprocal ideological violence, including campus riots, armed protests against federal land use management, neo-Nazi violence, Black Lives Matter riots, and occupations of the U.S. and state capitols.
Many officials refuse to restore order because they sympathize with protests or are intimidated by them. Section 1986 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 can break the cycle by holding faithless executives liable for failing to stop discriminatory conspiracies based on race.
The post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution established equal rights without regard to race, yet Southern whites terrorized newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. In response, Section 1985 of the KKK Act created an individual right to bring lawsuits for damages against private conspiracies that violate civil rights. Because conspirators were embold
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Target Announces It’s Abandoning Its Minneapolis City Center Headquarters. Here s Why It s No Surprise
Target’s decision comes less than a year after Minneapolis suffered some of the worst riots in US history.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
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Target Corporation, the eighth largest retailer in the United States, announced in an email to employees on Thursday that it will be leaving the City Center, its primary downtown Minneapolis location.
Company officials cited improved remote work opportunities and less need for space as the drivers for the decision. In just one year we ve proven that we can drive incredible results, together, from our kitchens and basements and living rooms, said Melissa Kremer, executive vice president and leader of Target’s human resources operations.