If You Watch One Thing Today, Make It This Video Of a Police Award Recipient Calling Out the Cops
The St. Paul Police Department held an award ceremony this week to honor Alex Mingus, a Minnesota resident who performed “an act of gallantry and valor” in response to a shooting. But upon accepting the award, Mingus called out the lack of police action on the scene. On October 8, 2021, Mingus was on his…
The Police Are Defunding Minneapolis
Mother Jones illustration; Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE /MediaPunch /IPX/AP; Steijn Leijzer/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2020, the allocation of money within city budgets—and specifically the distribution of Minneapolis’ budget—became a national concern. The slogan was Defund The Police. The idea was to take some…
The Police Failed, Says a Texas Congressional Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting
A family member of a shooting victim, is greeted by a friend after a city council meeting on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.AP Photo/Eric Gay Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In a new report, a Texas Congressional committee criticized…
Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Let’s say you’re like me: a person between the ages of 18 and 50 with a uterus. Imagine you work a job that pays the bills, but you don’t have as much time off as you’d like,…
Jacob Frey Is a Liar
Mother Jones illustration; Alex Kormann/Star Tribune/AP, Chris Tuite/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last Friday Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey announced a moratorium on no-knock warrants, the tactic that led to officer Mark Hanneman shooting and killing Amir Locke. It was the second…
Minneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City Promised to Ban Them
The scene outside an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis, where police killed Amir Locke in a no-knock raidRichard Tsong-Taatari/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Early on Wednesday morning, a Minneapolis police officer working as part of a SWAT team shot and killed…