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Twin Cities community has long battled Islamophobia, and some say series of attacks is backlash to new rule allowing calls any time

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke on Tuesday on suspicion of assisting the suicide of his mother, following the death of both of his parents last month.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said his department is investigating the unauthorized release of Metro Transit video showing the collision late Friday that killed five people in one of the vehicles.

MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday morning, John Pope answered his phone while boarding a flight to Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Justice had just released the results of a scathing federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, including 28 recommendations for institutional change.

A Chinese researcher arrested on suspicion of leaking research data on a cutting-edge technology to a Chinese company allegedly used his Japanese workplace email to contact the firm on several occasions, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.

These patterns represent a litany of violations of the public’s constitutional rights, the report finds

The Justice Department, city and police will begin negotiations to set the terms of a consent decree, which will bring federal oversight to police

Report details abuses against Black residents long before the May 2020 killing of Floyd captured the world’s attention.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says ‘patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible’

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department routinely engaged in a pattern of racist and abusive behavior that deprives people of their constitutional rights, according to new findings of a Justice Department investigation initiated by the murder of George Floyd three years ago.