Wisconsin Republicans want to legalize switchblades because...
Soon, Oshkosh street toughs could be dancing through town snapping their fingers in unison with switchblades tucked beneath their Packers jerseys. If Republican lawmakers have their way, that is. This...
View ArticleJudge orders assessments for 700 sex offenders, release for those who pass
Three months ago, a federal judge issued a harsh indictment of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), where convicted rapists thought to be a continued threat to the public are locked up for...
View ArticleJacob Wetterling and the desperation of 1989
Jacob Wetterling was taken one fall day in 1989. A masked man wielding a gun spared Wetterling's brother and another boy, and took the 11-year-old Jacob. Police and volunteer searching, along with the...
View ArticleMcDonald's customer's drive-thru beatdown caught on camera [VIDEO]
"Can I speak to your manager?" It's probably the most common and certainly the most passive-aggressive way of confronting a low-ranking, low-wage employee in any establishment. People might think...
View ArticleJim and Cathy Hively's alleged murderer Derek Hexum headed for trial in March
The three young men featured in City Pages' recent cover story "The Evil That Boys Do" will go on trial separately beginning March 21, when Derek Hexum faces charges of first degree burglary, second...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter leaders cleared of dumb charges in Mall of America case
Black Lives Matter launched as a movement based on anger over months, years, and decades of bad news about black Americans and their interactions with police. Yesterday brought the rare positive...
View ArticleMinnesota has at least 3,482 untested rape kits
There are hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits in police and crime lab evidence rooms across the country,stalling investigations and allowing rapists to go free. They’ve piled up because some...
View ArticleJamar Clark police shooting led to tense standoff with protesters [VIDEO]
Jamar Clark was shot by Minneapolis Police in the early morning hours of Sunday. Clark, a black Minneapoils resident, was involved in an altercation with police at the intersection of James and...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter demand cops release video of Jamar Clark’s shooting
At about 1 a.m. Sunday morning, 24-year-old Jamar Clark lay shot in the street at James and Plymouth in North Minneapolis. A Minneapolis Police officer had pulled the trigger, that much is clear. As...
View ArticleBetsy Hodges: Jamar Clark shooting should be investigated by Department of...
As Jamar Clark sits on life support and Black Lives Matter protesters continue to hold down the fourth precinct police department, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges announced Monday night that she will be...
View ArticleJamar Clark taken off life support; dozens of Black Lives Matter protesters...
Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old black Minneapolis resident shot by a Minneapolis Police Department officer, was taken off life support last night. That news, which comes from statements Clark's family...
View ArticleMinneapolis police union president: Jamar Clark "was a justifiable shooting"
Minneapolis police union President Bob Kroll says Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old man who was shot in the head by police over the weekend, was "actively resisting arrest" and that "no handcuffs were...
View ArticleMinneapolis Police force Black Lives protesters to move off precinct
The very day Jamar Clark was gunned down in North Minneapolis by police, about 20 Black Lives Matter activists crowded into the vestibule of the fourth precinct police station. An overnight sit-in...
View ArticleProtesters stand ground amid clouds of mace at Minneapolis police station
An overnight standoff at the fourth precinct police department in North Minneapolis between police and Black Lives Matters protesters increasingly hostile throughout the evening as police sprayed mace...
View ArticleMinneapolis man receives death threats from ISIS in the wake of Paris attacks
The day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, ISIS’ PR department rejoiced up and down Twitter, taking credit for the bloodshed. One jihadist going by “Abdul Hakim” took a moment to get back to work –...
View ArticleCop’s lawyer says Jamar Clark was holding a gun when he was killed
Was Jamar Clark handcuffed the night of his murder by a Minneapolis police officer or not? Was he lying on the ground or was he harassing a victim of domestic violence? Did he ever reach for an...
View ArticleMark Ringgenberg, cop in Jamar Clark shooting, was sued for chokehold
Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, are due to come under intense public scrutiny while investigators and the public...
View ArticleArmed white supremacists threaten protesters at 4th precinct shutdown
In the ongoing standoff at the 4th precinct police station over Jamar Clark's killing, various radicals have emerged to complicate and agitate police against protesters, protesters against police....
View ArticleFarmington City Councilman Jason Batholomay denies impersonating cop
On October 26, Jason Batholomay returned to Minnesota from a trip to Los Angeles. The Farmington City Councilman was cruising southbound on Cedar Avenue in Apple Valley when another driver noticed...
View ArticleCould Minnesota move toward slashing drug sentences?
With Minnesota prisons crowding and costs rising, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission has tentatively approved a plan that could significantly reduce how long certain offenders are behind...
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