Unique in its Midwestern, progressive, post-industrial personality, Minneapolis is beginning to grapple with its racial injustices past and present.
As the city recovers, communities like his “might be given a chance,” he said. “But it’s now got to be the kind of chance that’s going to work.”
That’s where he was arrested late on May 30, handcuffed by police in front of his family and temporarily detained — for violating Minneapolis’s first night of curfew.“I’ve never been so happy to be arrested,” he said Friday. “That meant we finally had help. I will not hold that against them, the way things were.”
“We need to weed out the bad officers and let the police do their job,” he said. “We depend on them and they depend on us — it’s symbiosis.”Maj. Scott Hawks, a spokesman for the Minnesota National Guard, said Friday that about 2,400 were in the process of being sent home, after a high of 7,000 deployed, mostly in the Twin Cities.
She hadn’t slept in days. “I don’t even know fully what I’m feeling yet, and haven’t had time to just grieve,” she said. With everyone on alert, sometimes the suspicious activity they’d reported to the group was in fact other members of the watch teams.“Here in our little neighborhood, we are trying to take care of each other,” Kwant said. “I don’t know how we will rebuild, but we will.”
Taffy Weldeyohannes, owner of Shega Foods in the Seward neighborhood, on Tuesday in Minneapolis. Weldeyohannes and other business owners organized a food and essential items drive after the death of George Floyd.under a new deal between the state and city
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