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From zero mentions to 56: How Star Tribune reporting gave Republican rhetoric and police allegations the authority of news—turning “Somali gangs” into a recurring frame for crime coverage and amplifying an election-year campaign for expanded local, state, and federal enforcement.
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MPD deployed 101 personnel to a memorial where its logs recorded seven people keeping vigil. Records show how police built a surveillance file around mourners as urgent calls waited and reports of threats and assaults by federal agents received “no response.”
This is not another story about the Julie Nelson boat crash. (You're welcome.) It's about what happened after the Star Tribune published
20 minutes after ICE shot and killed Renee Good, they told MPD to "hold the perimeter" of their crime scene. ICE told MPD it would "handle" the ICE agent's shooting and gather the evidence. MPD held the perimeter and let ICE and critical evidence leave. And they did it again. And again.
