there are some weird claims being made about minnesota
this is very relevant context, i cannot overstate (from 2020)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/the-heart-of-the-uprising-in-minneapolis
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i'm not a local any more & feel weird abt making certain kinds of declarations about what's going on in a forum like this one, but there are some very specific reasons MSP responded the way it has, and they run through what happened in 2020, political education & mutual aid stuff from that period...
See also:
"When George Floyd was murdered, people got involved: street protests, starting organizations, neighborhood watches. I was somebody who stayed up on my porch. There was a Black church across the street from me, and I just stayed up part of the night, until my shift ended and my roommate took over, to make sure that it didn鈥檛 get burned down."
