1. While reading up on the driver who was just charged with 2nd-degree intentional murder for a crash in Uptown Minneapolis that killed a protester, I’ve been seeing mentions of a truck driver who drove through hundreds of protesters on I-35W on 5/31/20. archive.ph/k3l0J
2. I remember seeing the footage last year year and wondering what was going through the trucker’s mind. The videos did not look good. But if he was intent on killing protesters, why did he stop suddenly & how did everyone survive?
3. I recently learned from a local that there was more to Bogdan Vechirko’s story than I’d seen in initial reports.
50 officers, detectives and sergeants on the Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team voted to resign from the team last night. This will remain on the job. This is the team that handles crowd control at protests among other duties.
Police have identified the victim as 36-year-old Adam Richard Johnson. No cause of death yet. Still asking the public for help in finding out what led up to his death.
The City of Minneapolis and protesters have been fighting for control of Lake St,. a high traffic, high crash, arterial road and commercial corridor in the city. City takes away their barricades and they put them back up.
1. The problem with indie journalists and social media sleuths rushing to be first to break the names of deceased people and their killers is that invariably someone gets it wrong and circulates the name(s) of people not involved.
3. One name is wrong (can't even confirm the man exists - anonymous account seems to be source) and the other name seems correct but I'm waiting for official announcement before I share because it really doesn't matter if you learn his name now or 5 hours from now.
There were two small marches against gun violence this weekend in the Twin Cities that are unlikely to get national media attention.
2. On Saturday, people marched in North Minneapolis demanding justice for the 3 black children shot earlier this year. Two have since died. There have been no arrests in these cases despite $10K reward in each case.
3. On Sunday, the one year anniversary of the shooting death of 23-year-old Nia Black, Nia's mom, LaTanya Black, founder of Mother’s Against Community Gun Violence, led a Peace Walk for Change in St. Paul calling for an end to gun violence.