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Pedestrian dies after hit and run crash in Minneapolis

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2 years ago

May 14, 2023

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Pedestrian dies after hit and run crash in Minneapolis

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Troopers reconstruct the deadly crash that left one man dead along Hiawatha Avenue on May 14, 2023. (FOX 9)

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A pedestrian was killed overnight after he was struck by a vehicle in Minneapolis by a driver who then left the scene.

Officers responded around 3:30 a.m. Sunday for the crash along Hiawatha Avenue at 26th Street East in the Longfellow neighborhood. At the scene, officers found a man lying in the intersection who was later pronounced dead.

Investigators believe the man was struck by a vehicle headed south on Hiawatha. The vehicle involved left the scene before officers responded.

The victim has not yet been identified. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit an anonymous tip online.

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Minneapolis reaches agreement with DOJ to instate oversight in police reform – Washington Examiner

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7 hours ago

January 1, 2025

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Minneapolis reaches agreement with DOJ to instate oversight in police reform – Washington Examiner

The city of Minneapolis and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement for a consent decree to place the city’s police department under federal oversight.

Members of the Minneapolis City Council are expected to review the agreement on Monday with the intention of finalizing it before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has been a vocal opponent of the move. He has called the court-enforceable reform a “war on police.”

There has been great concern Trump will try to stop the mandated federal oversight of the city’s police department, as city officials began their inquiry into the department’s misconduct nearly five years ago following the death of George Floyd.

“We haven’t taken our foot off the gas since we started, and I have no intention of taking the foot off the gas,” City Attorney Kristyn Anderson said in an interview last month. “I’m still hopeful we’re gonna be able to land the plane on this one.”

In June 2023, the Justice Department concluded in a report that the Minneapolis Police Department had repeatedly used “unjustified deadly force and excessive less-lethal force,” unlawfully discriminated against black and Native American people, violated First Amendment rights, and caused trauma or death when responding to people with behavioral health problems.

The city and the DOJ were expected to begin negotiating terms for the decree, but it took nearly a year for the DOJ to submit a draft consent decree for feedback following the published report.

There was no rationale provided for the delay. Already, the city has entered into a consent decree with the state. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has entered a four-year oversight agreement with the city to monitor the MPD and ensure changes are made to ensure no racial discrimination is taking place.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has allocated $16 million in 2024 and $11 million in 2025 to manage the reforms expected to be implemented from the decrees. Last year, MPD launched an Implementation Unit that will focus on improving data collection and ensuring that compliance with the new standards is met.

If the city council agrees to the terms laid out by the Justice Department, the MPD will be the first police department in the country to be subjected to both a federal and state consent decree.

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Burglar strikes Minneapolis’ historic 19 Bar amid reconstruction, owner says

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December 31, 2024

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Burglar strikes Minneapolis’ historic 19 Bar amid reconstruction, owner says

Thief targets historic Minneapolis gay bar, owner says

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MINNEAPOLIS — The 19 Bar, the oldest LGBTQ+ bar in Minnesota, was targeted by a burglar overnight Tuesday amid the push to rebuild it following a devastating fire.

Owner Gary Lee Hallberg tells WCCO the thief took some tools, a backpack and batteries with chargers from the historic Loring Park bar.

He says the security system has yet to be reinstalled since the bar was destroyed on March 23.

The setback comes just days after Hallberg announced the bar wouldn’t reopen as planned on New Year’s Eve due to delays in construction and inspections.

In August, Hallberg filed a $2.8 million lawsuit against a recycling company whose garbage truck struck the electrical pole next to the bar, which then fell on the building and ignited the fire. Hallberg says the fire occurred just weeks before he was set to close a deal on selling the bar, which was subsequently canceled.

While the recycling company admits fault for the accident, it refutes Hallberg’s claims that the bar was a total loss.

The 19 Bar is one of the oldest operating LGBTQ+ bars in the country, first opening its doors to customers in 1952.

Hallberg says he hopes to reopen by early February.

Kirsten Mitchell will bring us inside The 19 Bar to see the reconstruction effort firsthand Tuesday on WCCO 4 News at 9.

Stephen Swanson

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS Minnesota. A 21-year WCCO-TV veteran, Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the newsroom, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

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Minneapolis-based agency donates 50% of profits to use ‘business as a force of good’

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December 31, 2024

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Minneapolis-based agency donates 50% of profits to use ‘business as a force of good’

Krista Carroll CEO and founder of Latitude (Latitude/Latitude)

To build Latitude into a full-service agency, Carroll hired subject-matter experts and added brand, strategy, creative, experiential and other services. While starting a business amid the Great Recession was “scary,” the prospect of it not flourishing was less dire than what they had seen in Haiti, she said.

“We can figure something else out,” she said.

The beginning of the pandemic, however, proved “really devastating,” Carroll said. Most client work then was in retail event activations and in-store merchandising, and 90% of current and forecasted business went away within a few days. Latitude continued some charitable giving, having put money into a donor-advised fund for that purpose.

“During those layoffs, I was like, full transparency, maybe I shouldn’t have given so much away, even though we were a healthy company,” Carroll said. “But I decided that I truly believe that ‘business as a force for good’ is a worthy cause, and one that is worth digging really deep for. Even though it’s been a really steep climb, I still like the purpose of why we exist. Still gets me out of bed in the morning.”

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