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1/ • “The Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts have long faced criticism over the use of school resource officers, strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth via @StarTribune
• “with both seeking to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer.

@RyanFaircloth @StarTribune 2/ • In 2018-2019, a Minneapolis Public Schools survey gave mostly positive marks to the officers,
• but the data also showed that school cops had more interactions with black students than their peers. --per strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth --

@RyanFaircloth @StarTribune 3/ --per strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth --• The state’s third-largest school district has contracted with Minneapolis police since 1967,
• a district spokeswoman said,
• except from 2004-2009,
• when it worked with park police

@RyanFaircloth @StarTribune 4/ Under the current contract, the district was paying Minneapolis police $1.1 million annually for its services. --strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth --...

@RyanFaircloth @StarTribune 5/ ...
• Earlier Tuesday, a few hundred people
— including Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar
— gathered outside the district’s headquarters to voice support for the move. --strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth --

@RyanFaircloth @StarTribune 6/ • “Police brutality doesn’t just happen in the streets here in Minneapolis.
• It happens in our schools,” [U.S. Rep. Ilhan] Omar said. “Enough is enough.” --printed in strib.mn/2zS5KrP By @RyanFaircloth --

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