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Minnesota Reformer Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo coordinated closely with a group called Operation Safety Now, which was created by a PR consultant, to sway public opinion and the City Council against budget cuts to the Minneapolis police department. The office of Mayor Jacob Frey, seen here in the background, also worked with Operation Safety Now. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. Bill Rodriguez was the first speaker at the first public hearing on cutting funding to the Minneapolis Police Department. “We need both: the police and reform,” Rodriguez said at a City Council meeting in November. Variations on that phrase “we need both” were repeated throughout the hearing. It is the signature talking point of Operation Safety Now, the pro-police group Rodriguez founded. ....
USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS The young Black man stood up in the back of the pickup, a megaphone to his mouth, surrounded by hundreds of chanting marchers who ignored the honks from drivers as they blocked the street. If George don t get it? activist Brandyn Tulloch, 24, yelled to the crowd. Shut it down! they screamed as one. If George don t get it? Shut it down! Shut. It. Down! The crowd roared approval at the idea that their movement would gridlock the city if jurors hearing the case against former police officer Derek Chauvin failed to convict him in Floyd s death. Tulloch and his friends in Minneapolis have emerged as some of the loudest, strongest voices for police reform in the city and nationally, but their confrontational methods and and reluctance to condemn rioting, looting and arson has put them at odds with more established reform groups. ....
More than 3,000 National Guard soldiers, along with police officers, state police, sheriffs deputies and other law enforcement personnel have flooded the city in recent days, with a verdict looming in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with murder in the death last year of George Floyd. ....
increase font size In Minneapolis, a city remains fortified in wake of guilty verdict in George Floyd trial More than 3,000 National Guard soldiers, along with police officers, sheriffs deputies and other law enforcement personnel have flooded Minneapolis in recent days. By TIM SULLIVANAssociated Press Share National Guard members are seen through fencing and wire near the Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis on Monday, after the murder trial against former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin advanced to jury deliberations. Julio Cortez/Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Just outside the entrance to Smile Orthodontics, in a Minneapolis neighborhood of craft breweries and trendy shops, two soldiers in jungle camouflage and body armor were on watch, assault rifles slung over their backs. Snow flurries blew around them. A few steps away at the Iron Door Pub, three more National Guard soldiers and a Minneapolis police officer stood out front, watc ....