Minneapolis, MN
MAC unveils new fire station at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
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The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) on Monday unveiled a new aircraft rescue and firefighting station at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
MAC said the new $42.3 million, 25,000-square-foot fire station is the first stage in consolidating public safety and operations into one facility. The next stage will be opening the Public Safety and Operations Center, for which construction began this summer. The Center will connect to the fire station.
Fire Station 2 is approximately 50% larger than the previous station it is replacing, which was built in 1965.
The new station is located at the north end of the airfield adjacent to the MSP air traffic control tower. Fire Station 1 is on the south end of the airfield.
MAC said that MSP firefighters respond to around 3,200 calls per year — including medical cases, structural and aircraft emergencies and hazardous material calls. As firefighters typically spend 121 nights per year at the airport, MAC said the new station includes individual bunk rooms, locker rooms, a larger kitchen and interactive meeting spaces.
The fire department as a whole covers MSP’s 3,400-acre campus and has mutual aid agreements with nearby communities in case of emergency.
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Minneapolis, MN
No cameras allowed in Myon Burrell trial
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Hennepin County Assistant Chief Judge Mark Kappelhoff made the decision to not let cameras in Myon Burrell’s upcoming trial on gun and drugs charges. Burrell was life-sentence for the murder of an 11-year-old girl was commuted in 2020.
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Minneapolis, MN
In Minneapolis, protesters call for Harris-Walz to support arms embargo to Israel
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Chanting “Free Free Palestine” and holding signs that read “Not Another Bomb,” hundreds gathered in downtown Minneapolis’ Loring Park Sunday afternoon for a rally and march to send a strong but simple message to Vice President Kamala Harris and delegates heading to Chicago for the opening of the Democratic National Convention: Stop the war in Gaza.
“We are here for Palestine,” emcee Yasmin Hirsi said as she addressed the intergenerational crowd waving Palestinian flags, holding banners and clutching homemade signs. “Biden and Harris should not be funding this genocide … and slaughtering the Palestinian people.”
Native American dancers and drummers kicked off the rally, which was one of 89 similar gatherings held Sunday in 36 states, said Mattias Lehman, who was one of the organizers of “Not Another Bomb” Minneapolis.
Several groups joined forces at Sunday’s peaceful rally to show support for uncommitted delegates and elected officials who are in favor of an arms embargo and to call for an immediate cease fire. The conflict between Israel and the Islamic group Hamas has entered its 10th month.
More than 30,000 people have been killed since Oct. 7 when Hamas militants from Gaza launched an assault on Israel, and fighting between the two sides has continued ever since.
Protesters say the United States has supplied weapons to Israel, which it has used to attack Hamas in Gaza but has killed innocent civilians, something Nikki Racine adamantly opposes.
“We don’t want the government to fund war and genocide,” she said Sunday, holding a homemade sign that read “Free Palestine.”
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg with Jewish Voice for Peace Twin Cities encouraged attendees to fight on and continue to express the sentiment of Americans and Democrats who want the possible Harris-Walz administration to use tax dollars to fund life-giving institutions instead of weapons of war.
Minneapolis, MN
Four minors injured in Minneapolis shooting involving stolen vehicle
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Four minors, ranging in age from 11 to 14 years old, were shot inside a stolen Kia in Minneapolis early Sunday. One of the occupants of the car was uninjured.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a dark colored sedan pulled up behind the Kia and began firing shots. The sedan left the area before officers arrived.
Police responded to the incident in the 1400 block of Plymouth Avenue North around 1 a.m. after responding to multiple ShotSpotter alerts nearby in the area.
Officers provided medical aid until firefighters and EMS arrived, according to the police press release, and all four were transported by ambulance to HCMC. Two boys and one girl had apparent non-life threatening injuries, while one girl had life-threatening injuries. The fifth juvenile, who was uninjured, was transported home.
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“Four kids shot between eleven and fourteen is outrageous and everyone should be up in arms over it,” O’Hara said. “The police are doing everything that we can in response to this, but we can’t keep responding after the fact. More needs to be done to deter this type of activity in the first place.”
O’Hara noted that over the last two years, juveniles being involved in joy-riding with stolen vehicles, frequently Kia and Hyundai models, has been a “tremendous problem.” The police chief noted that the number of thefts of these two models has dropped by a quarter, and they were less than half of all vehicles stolen in the city.
“While there’s fewer of these cars are being stolen, the activity that these juveniles are involved in have become more brazen,” O’Hara said. “There’s been more aggravated assaults, more robberies, more hit and runs. [There’s been] more serious crimes more frequently committed by those individuals who are involved in the theft of these cars.
“We are failing to deter this behavior and with that we are failing these kids as well,” O’Hara added.
No arrests have been made in the case.
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