#BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools votes unanimously to terminate its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department, in response to the death of #GeorgeFloyd.
Ryan Faircloth
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Ryan Faircloth
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- Final draft: THC edibles and beverages are legal in Minnesota starting tomorrow. A key Republican in the Republican-controlled Senate said he didn’t realize the scope of the law he signed off on, calls for it to be rolled back. Democratic leader says no.
- Replying to @RyanFairclothUnder the approved resolution, Minneapolis Public Schools will cease further negotiations with the police department and Superintendent Ed Graff must come up with a new plan for school safety by the board's August 18 board meeting.
- Replying to @RyanFairclothAlso meant to note: Minneapolis Public Schools was paying the police department $1.1 million per year for services. Students and school board members say that money could be better spent on mental health services.
- Replying to @RyanFairclothThe district has long faced criticism over the use of SROs, and sought to transform the role into a mentor. In 2018-2019, a Minneapolis schools survey gave mostly positive marks to SROs, but data also showed school cops had more interactions with black students than their peers.
- Replying to @RyanFaircloth"I value people and education and life," school board chairwoman Kim Ellison said in an interview. "Now I'm convinced, based on the actions of the Minneapolis Police Department, that we don't have the same values."
- #BREAKING: Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter for killing #GeorgeFloyd, Hennepin Co. Attorney Mike Freeman says. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for several minutes, ignoring pleas that he could not breathe.
- VP nominee JD Vance just held a press conference outside the shuttered Third Precinct in Minneapolis. He painted Minneapolis as a city in decline and said, “The story of Minneapolis is coming to every community across the [U.S.] if we promote Kamala Harris to president.”
- Replying to @RyanFairclothMinneapolis Public Schools has contracted with the Minneapolis Police Department since 1967 (except for 2004-2009, when the district worked with park police), a district spokeswoman tells me.
- Breaking: The University of Minnesota will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 once the shots get full FDA approval, which is expected to happen in the coming weeks. U President Joan Gabel announced mandate in a message Monday. Mandate will require regent approval.
- NEW: Republican Sen. Jim Abeler, who chairs the MN Senate human services reform committee, tells me he did not realize the new MN law allowing THC edibles would do just that. He thought it would just regulate delta-8 THC products, said the Legislature should roll the new law back
- NEW: Vance Boelter's letter to the FBI was rambling and conspiratorial, sources with direct knowledge of its contents say. Boelter claimed he was trained by the U.S. military off the books and that Gov. Tim Walz asked him to kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar, others
