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I run @SahanJournal, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants and communities of color • 📲: +1 651.983.1550 📩: editor@sahanjournal.com.
May 29, 2020 12 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING: Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis Police who killed George Floyd, has been arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington has announced. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, who has the authority to bring criminal charges against Derek Chauvin, will hold a press conference at 1 p.m.
May 26, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: A video shows a Minneapolis police officer pinning down a black man by the neck with his knee for several minutes as the man screams: "I can't breathe."
Longer video here: facebook.com/10001340472529…
Jul 12, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
I’ve been in great shock since I heard the news of Hodan Naleyeh’s killing in an explosion in Somalia.

Hodan was an incredibly talented, creative, down-to-earth journalist who single-handedly tried to change the racist media narrative around Somalia and Somalis. Hodan was supportive, inspiring and a great role model. Her killing has shocked nearly everyone I know who has been following her work. What a tragic loss! May Allah grant Hodan a place in Jannah.
Jun 20, 2019 9 tweets 5 min read
.@AsteadWesley visits St. Cloud and gets residents to talk. I mean, any reporter can go to St. Cloud and do a story like this, but what separates this story from the rest are how residents are open to expressing their... fears.

nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/… And this. nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/…
Apr 30, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Mohamed Noor, a former Minneapolis police officer who killed a white woman, was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Noor, who's Somali, is the first police officer in Minnesota to be convicted of an on-duty shooting. We can't ignore the racial dynamics in this case. It took the killing of a white woman in a white neighborhood in Minneapolis for prosecutors to charge a black officer who is an immigrant and Muslim.
Mar 28, 2018 7 tweets 4 min read
BREAKING: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to @theintercept. mprnews.org/story/2018/03/… Terry Albury is the second person charged for leaking secret documents to Intercept. In June 2017, an intelligence contractor was charged with leaking a classified report about Russia's interference in the 2016 election to the Intercept.