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There is clear reporting of large, coordinated drug enforcement actions in and the , including past multi-agency busts and federal indictments tied to , but the available sources do not show evidence ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When allegations of arise in , forensic response is multi-layered: scene teams coordinate with laboratory divisions, specialized chemical assessment or emergency-response units are consulted, and accr...
maintains several public data sources that include arrests by charge and — to varying degrees — by race/ethnicity and city; the central repository is the maintained by the , supplemented by agency-lev...
Multiple coordinated investigations across the have involved a mix of local, state and federal agencies — notably the , , the , and the , working alongside state and local partners including the and m...
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...
and killed a 37-year-old man in on January 24, 2026, during a targeted federal immigration operation, touching off protests and a scramble over who will investigate the use of force; officials and vid...