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Minneapolis PD investigating leak of video showing deadly crash
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MPD investigating video leak of deadly crash
Video circulating on social media Sunday showed the tragic moment five young women died in a car crash. Law enforcement officials are responding to criticism from the community about the footage being leaked.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Video circulating on social media Sunday showed the tragic moment five young women died in a car crash. Law enforcement officials are responding to criticism from the community about the footage being leaked.
“I am outraged and I am angry. And the families – they are stunned,” wrote Jamal Osman, the city council member from Minneapolis’ 6th Ward in a statement Sunday night.
The council member said he has been supporting the families of the five young women, who were killed Friday night after Minneapolis police said their car was hit by an alleged impaired driver. The victims were 20-year-old Sahra Gesaade, 20-year-old Salma Abdikadir, 19-year-old Segal Hersey, 19-year-old Siham Adam, and 17-year-old Sabiriin Ali. They were all killed after a driver ran a red light and crashed into their car near Interstate 35W and Lake Street.
Osman said his office was made aware that “elements of Law Enforcement” released traffic camera footage of the moment the two cars collided.
“This, despite senior law enforcement members giving me direct assurances that this video would not be released until AFTER the families had the chance to view it.,” Osman continued.
The council member said he would be asking the Minneapolis mayor, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara and Metro Transit Police to explain how the release of the video could happen.
O’Hara responded to Osman’s criticisms Sunday night. The chief said the leak of the video, which he identified as Metro Transit surveillance video, was “concerning.”
Somali community grieves young crash victims
Five young women from the local Somali community were running an errand to prepare for a friend’s wedding when they were killed in a violent car crash with a suspected impaired driver.
“We do not know who shared the Metro Transit surveillance video to be posted online, but we will conduct an internal review along with Metro Transit PD to try to determine the source. I will also review and consider policy changes to limit how video of evidentiary value may be received from an outside agency by members of the MPD,” O’Hara said.
The alleged impaired driver was arrested but has not been officially named because he has not been formally charged.
The chief also said a “city official,” not member of the Minneapolis Police Department, shared the name of the person arrested in the fatal crash with the media, which he also called concerning.
Funeral services for the young women are planned for Monday. Leaders at Dar al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington said three of them were cousins, and all five victims grew up together and were best friends.
“These were our brightest individuals, our brightest young sisters, young women in our community,” said Khalid Omar, director of the Dar al Farooq Islamic Center.
Omar said on Friday night, the young women were at Karmel Mall, shopping and getting Henna applied for a friend’s wedding. They were on their way home when their car was hit. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
O’Hara said he was unaware of which senior law enforcement members would have assured Osman that family members would see the surveillance video before the public.
“The only family arrangements the MPD is aware of concerned the viewing of dashcam video from the (Minnesota State Patrol)—not Metro Transit surveillance video,” the chief said.
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Friends remember Minneapolis DJ Liara Tsai’s passion, activism for trans community
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City of Minneapolis hosts athletes, tourists as Olympic trials continue ahead of Paris 2024
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The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are in 29 days, and U.S. gymnasts are in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the U.S. Olympic trials. Sixteen women and 20 men are vying for a total of 10 spots; Five for women, five for men.
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Each team will have two alternates.
All will be decided Saturday night for the men, and Sunday night for the women.
Minneapolis, known as the Bold North has been dubbed Gymnastics City, USA.
Athletes have been competing inside the Minneapolis Target Center.
On Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry kicked off Promenade du Nord, a Parisian street celebration with local makers, performers, artists, vendors, and outdoor cafes.
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Theresa Souza and her sister Angela Steidl are from Oregon. “I did a year in France when I was in high school, and I really wanted to go to Paris but it wasn’t going to happen and so I saw the tryouts were here in Minneapolis and so I was like, ‘I can do that,’ so I got my sister and here we are.”
The two have family in Minneapolis that they’re visiting.
Tim Daggett, a gymnastics analyst with NBC Sports said, “Every athlete that’s competing out on the floor, men and women, they have dreamed of this moment. They’ve cherished it. They’ve planned, they’ve struggled just to get to this point. And, you know, it’s all kind of on the line. And so, it’s very, very exciting. I remember back to the Olympic trials that I had been in, and it is a very, it’s a pressure cooker, no question about it. I’m excited.”
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Soul of the Southside Festival spotlights Juneteenth celebrations in Minneapolis – Mshale
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In celebration of Juneteenth, thousands gathered on Minnehaha Avenue and Lake Street for the Soul of the Southside Festival. The goal of the festival was to create space centered around Blackness, kinship, and community, according to the Black-owned creative hub, The Legacy Building. The event brought south Minneapolis into the limelight by exhibiting its Black creativity, entrepreneurship, togetherness, and persistence.
The festival was a collaboration between various businesses based in south Minneapolis. Hook and Ladder Theater, Moon Palace Books, Arbeiter Brewing and the historic Coliseum building hosted events throughout the day, boasting a bit of everything from live music and a film screening to an art exhibition and children’s face painting. The event also spotlighted radio stations KRSM and KFAI, who both highlighted classics through local deejays.
Juneteenth is an annual holiday recognizing the end of slavery in the United States. Although President Abraham Lincoln made the Jan. 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which ended centuries of enslavement of Black people in the Confederate southern states, it wasn’t until two years later, on June 19, 1965, that the last enslaved people were freed. Juneteenth marks the day Major Gen. Gordan Granger marched into Galveston, Texas, with 2,000 soldiers and announced that all slaves were free through General Order No. 3.
The following year, a group of formerly enslaved people celebrated the decree on the first anniversary. Since then, Juneteenth has gained more significance. In 2021, it became a federally-recognized holiday.
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The celebrations included the official reopening of the Coliseum, the iconic building on Lake Street, which was damaged by fire during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery had an expansive display on the 1st floor of the building, recalling the struggle for Black liberation in Minnesota from the 19th century up until the 1960s. On the 2nd Floor, attendees were encouraged to view their bodies and cultural knowledge as a tool to dismantle systemic racism through various events like a drum circle and a body reclamation session.
“The first thing that people who want to colonize you gotta do is control your food source,” said Chef Lachelle Cunningham, who led a class about ancestral food waves. “If we want to be free, then we have to have control over our food, so that has to do with where our food comes from, knowing that, having some control over that, growing our food [and] sourcing it. A lot of our culture is in our food and how we do things, and so if we lose connection to that culture, a lot of times we lose connection to our food and the importance of that and what is good for our bodies.”
A section of the 1st floor paid homage to victims of police brutality, featuring spray painted portraits of Floyd and Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old shot and killed by a police officer in Columbus, Ohio.
“Nobody can ever shut us down,” said LaToya White, a vendor and the owner of Angels Delightful Creations. “We [are] ten toes down. We’re not going to let one thing impact us and let anyone take from us because we’ve been taking from our entire lives, our ancestors and everything. So this is time for us to rise up. Having it at this location [lets] them know that we are here and we’re here to stay.”
A block away from the Coliseum, food trucks lined the barricaded stretch of Minnehaha Avenue. Several lines of over 50 people waited for samosas, tacos and smoked meats. As old friends hugged and convened along the bustling road, jazzy melodies played through a street performer’s saxophone.
The Hook and Ladder, in partnership with Black Music America, had live performances throughout the day. A younger crowd filled the outdoor Black Music America stage space to hear performances from Twin Cities-based artists like sibling band NUNNABOVE. Audience members could head inside the lushly decorated building to get drinks from the bar or check out the Legacy Stage to see other acts.
For a quieter and more serene environment, attendees could head to Moon Palace Books, an independent bookstore that held storytelling for children earlier in the day and later featured a film screening of “One Million Experiments”, which explores the possibility of a safe society without police or a prison system. In the bookstore parking lot, Black-owned business vendors sold pastries, dashikis, tarot decks, plants and more.
Next door, Arbeiter Brewing hosted an all-day beer garden, with an art fair featuring local visual artists — some actively working on pieces through the fair.
“We have to keep the story alive,” said Cunningham. “I think there’s an opportunity to continue to keep the historical story alive, but also for people to continue to tell their stories through these types of events and opportunities and show resilience. I think it’s really about the resilience of our people, from our enslaved ancestors to those who came after the civil rights movement to those who are still fighting in the civil rights movement; it’s connecting those future generations.”
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About Kwot Anwey
Kwot Anwey is a reporting intern with Mshale and majors in journalism at Boston University.
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