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June 19
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter talked in a Lake Street parking lot after giving a news conference about how to help bus

Readers Write: Police and City Hall reform, medical examiner, treatment of historical figures, firefighters

Not helpful, Mayor Frey.
Letters
June 19
U.S. Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy met Minnesotans who went to the March on Washington in 1963. Shown from left in this photo: Curtis Chiv

Readers Write: Lost Minneapolis, the 'Holy Land' brand, and matters involving the police — appreciation, quantification of killings, recruitment

The progress of the '60s betrayed
Letters
June 18
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo listened as Mayor Jacob Frey called for overhauling the arbitration process that critics say too often allows police of

Readers Write: Police reform, Supreme Court, Maplewood Nature Center closing, COVID-19

Let's see some consequences for police.
Letters
June 17
A South Carolina school district is apologizing for a fourth-grade social studies assignment meant to teach students about slavery after complaints fr

Readers Write: School funding, Minneapolis leadership, Minnesota Freedom Fund, minimum wage, facemasks

Add school funding to the list of things to change.
Letters
June 16
Protesters raise four fingers to symbolize the arrests of four police officers in the killing of George Floyd.

Readers Write: Police force, 'Gone with the Wind,' protest hypocrisy, removing Confederate monuments

Kroll should want what we want: a better force.
Letters
June 15
Alondra Cano, who represents the Ninth Ward on the City Council, speaks to community members at Powderhorn Park on June 7. There, nine council members

Readers Write: Pledge to end police, Max Mason, race and kids, Colin Kaepernick, Trump rally

Let residents talk this out.
Letters
June 12
Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, pictured in 2012.

Readers Write: Hennepin County medical examiner, mining, police reform, sports

Reporting on the facts is not the problem.
Letters
June 12
Artist Aribert Munzner’s work was damaged when the Ivy Arts Building caught fire May 29. “I’m starting again because that’s what I’ve been d

Readers Write: Rebuilding, police reform and behavior, St. Paul's Columbus statue

May we all be a little more like Ari.
Letters
June 12
Asked on June 6 by participants in a “defund the police” march to pledge to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, Mayor Jacob Frey refused an

Readers Write: What people mean when they talk about changes to the police

Let's be clear about the intent.
Letters
June 11
Medaria Arradondo, chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, spoke on Wednesday.

Readers Write: Police officers, Minnesota's Christopher Columbus statue

Some reflection is in order for officers.
Letters
June 10
Rollie Hogrefe, owner of Rollie’s Rednecks and Longnecks in Sauk Rapids, Minn., has a collection of Confederate memorabilia on display which got the

Readers Write: Anti-racism, policing, voting rights, COVID-19 testing for protesters, officers slashing tires

Neutrality has no place here.
Letters
June 9
People survey the damage along Lake Street in Minneapolis as a fire burns to the east on May 30.

Readers Write: Rebuilding, police reform, Sen. Paul Gazelka, defunding the police

Can't we mobilize to rebuild, too?
Letters
June 8
Andrea Jenkins, vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, spoke to community members Sunday about defunding the Police Department. Jenkins and e

Readers Write: Defunding Minneapolis police, Mayor Jacob Frey, Holy Land boycotts

Get rid of this structure.
Letters
June 7
People gather to demand justice for George Floyd on May 28 in Minneapolis.

Readers Write: Racism, police forces, race and sports, Trump

For wisdom, read the poets.
Letters
June 6
On Friday, elected officials met with business owners on West Broadway in Minneapolis who had been affected by looting and riots. Sens. Tina Smith and

Readers Write: Klobuchar's VP prospects, photos of COVID-19 victims, police reform, race in general, mail delivery

Don't pigeonhole Minnesota's senior senator.
Letters
June 5
Protesters kneel for a moment of silence in support of George Floyd in Minneapolis on June 3.

Readers Write: Systemic racism, clean-up volunteers, city politics, the pandemic, 2020 election

White America has work to do.
Letters
June 4
Volunteers cleaned up rubble last week along University Avenue in St. Paul.

Readers Write: Rebuilding, systemic racism, charging former officers, diversity in sports

Heal the community, too.
Letters
June 3
Volunteers removed graffiti from a Minneapolis charter school and cleaned up areas near Lake Street.

Readers Write: Lasting change, protests, policing, the vice presidency, some hope

Let the real work begin.
Letters
June 2
The intersection by Cup Foods in south Minneapolis is now a memorial to George Floyd.

Readers Write: George Floyd, police union, police tactics, gun control, inequality

Together, do what Floyd couldn't.
Letters
June 2
Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, pictured in 2018.

Readers Write: Leadership, policing by consent, cleaning up, deaths in police custody

The head of the police union must go.
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