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Winter
@deenafaywinter
Cowgirl flunky, news junkie. Minnesota Star Tribune reporter covering City Hall. Signal: deenawinter69
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    Dec 14, 2022
    When Amara Strande was just 16, a 15-pound tumor was found embedded in her liver. Nearly the size of a volleyball. She was one of many students at Tartan High School in Oakdale who got cancer. Students joked about the water fountains, saying, “Don’t drink the 3M cancer water.” 🧵
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    Apr 27, 2022
    I have read the 72-page state report on MPD, and compiled some of the most jaw-dropping portions. Here are some of them. 🧵
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    Feb 4, 2022
    BREAKING: 2 officers on a SWAT team that was caught on body camera video firing at citizens without warning from an unmarked cargo van days after the police killing of George Floyd were also involved in Wednesday's raid that led to Amir Locke's killing:
    2 SWAT team members involved in Jaleel Stallings case were part of Locke raid • Minnesota Reformer
    From minnesotareformer.com
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    @deenafaywinter
    Jun 16, 2023
    OK so I read the 89-page DOJ report on the Minneapolis Police Department, and here are some of the most jarring things I found in it: 🧵
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    Dec 14, 2022
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    It was the darkest of jokes: In 2005, state officials announced 3M had contaminated Oakdale’s water with chemicals. People living east of the Twin Cities had elevated perfluorocarbons in their blood. By 2017, a 100-square-mile underground plume was contaminated w/ chemicals.
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    Sep 14, 2022
    Just talked to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who (in between insults) confirmed the FBI surrounded him while he was in the drive-thru of a Hardee's in Mankato today, and took his cell phone. Story to come.
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    Dec 14, 2022
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    Amara’s story, while extraordinary, is not so unique in Oakdale. A 2017 study found that a child who died there between 2003 and 2015 was 171% more likely to have had cancer than a child who died in the surrounding area.
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    @deenafaywinter
    Dec 14, 2022
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    Although 3M contends that a definitive, smoking-gun link between 3M’s waste and Oakdale’s cancer rates has never been established, the city’s cancer incidence went down after 2006, when 3M helped pay for a water filtration system and chemical contamination levels dropped.
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    Dec 14, 2022
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    That’s the same year Amara began having headaches, nausea, frequent nosebleeds and horrific abdominal pain. Some days it seemed like all she could do was sleep. Now 20, Amara has had more than 20 surgeries to battle the tumors that keep growing in her body.
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    Apr 27, 2022
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    MPD officers used covert, or fake, social media accounts to surveil and engage Black individuals, Black organizations & elected officials. As of December 2020, MPD did not use its covert social media accounts to track white supremacist or white nationalist groups.
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    Apr 27, 2022
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    One patrol officer claimed they didn't engage in racial profiling, yet later in the interview provided an example of how they might solve a crime based on racial stereotypes, not understanding searching for someone based solely on racial stereotypes was racial profiling.
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    Dec 14, 2022
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    Nearly 17 years later, Oakdale residents continue to grapple with lingering, seemingly unexplainable health effects, and they wonder about the role 3M chemicals may have played in their ailments. And why justice has been so elusive.
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    Apr 27, 2022
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    A high-level MPD leader explained that officers often arrest and cite individuals with obstruction or disorderly conduct “for things that could fall under the category, arguably, of pissing off the police."
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    Dec 14, 2022
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    After former Attorney General Lori Swanson settled a lawsuit with 3M in 2018, she made public all the internal 3M documents they'd obtained. I decided to read them; all of them. Here they are: ag.state.mn.us/Office/Cases/3…