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Available official statewide crime data tools exist but do not break out crime rates by neighborhood ethnicity; local reporting links higher crime in some Minneapolis neighborhoods like Cedar‑Riversid...
Democratic elected officials and allied civic groups in Minnesota responded to the 2017 killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond with public expressions of outrage, calls for accountability and broader poli...
Federal and independent news outlets report that the main publicly available material in the case consists of multiple bystander videos and photos, plus a DHS-released photograph of a firearm and agen...
Public reporting shows investigators are collecting and trying to preserve more than just citizen videos in the : authorities and prosecutors have sought access to federal evidence, state investigator...
Federal authorities have taken exclusive operational control of the probe into Renee Nicole Good’s killing, with the FBI leading the investigation and Minnesota state investigators reporting they have...
Federal and local responses to fatal shootings involving federal agents have repeatedly produced jurisdictional friction: federal authorities often assert control of investigations and limit state par...
Federal control over investigations of officer-involved shootings by federal agents rests on a mix of constitutional supremacy, federal criminal statutes, and prosecutorial discretion, but states reta...
Federal and state reporting shows multiple large fraud schemes in Minnesota programs during Gov. Tim Walz’s tenure, including a roughly $250 million COVID-era school meals scandal and investigations t...
The FBI publicly announced it is leading the probe into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good and has taken sole control of the investigative materials, a move that Minnesota officials say has block...
Congressional Republicans have opened a formal document request and investigation into alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota social services under Gov. Tim Walz, citing schemes tied to Feeding Our Fut...
There is no verified law-enforcement confirmation in the provided reporting that a person wearing a Viking costume was involved in a police pursuit in Minnesota; the only direct media mention in the s...
Minnesota’s state agencies have responded to a cascade of social‑service fraud revelations by tightening administrative safeguards — from new program‑integrity rules and statutory tools to payment fre...
The available reporting shows that federal /ICE agents shot and killed in , firing at least 10 rounds and apparently shooting some rounds while he was on the ground; videos released by multiple outlet...
officials have taken immediate legal and procedural steps to preserve evidence and press for state-led scrutiny after two , including filing a federal lawsuit and securing a temporary restraining orde...
A federal immigration-enforcement operation in on Jan. 24, 2026, ended with the by agents; widespread video and witness accounts have contradicted initial federal descriptions and ignited large protes...
is in the grip of an escalating confrontation between a large federal immigration enforcement presence and widespread local resistance after the fatal shooting of by an on January 7; the episode has s...
The Minneapolis investigations and city statements have not produced a definitive, independent finding that changes the basic reporting: federal agents used chemical irritants and crowd‑control muniti...
Multiple layers of authority can investigate a sitting Minnesota governor: state law-enforcement and oversight bodies led by the Minnesota Attorney General and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, fed...
Multiple investigations — federal and state — have been opened into pandemic-era fraud allegations in Minnesota programs; at least the U.S. House Oversight Committee, the U.S. Treasury Department, and...
Federal and state governments in 2024 took several concrete steps to address the disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered Black women and girls: the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Just...