Two Minnesota national guards were injured after a shooting that took place in Minneapolis on Sunday.
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According to Lieutenant Colonel Scott Hawks, spokesman for the Minnesota National Guard, a team of Minnesota National Guardsmen and Minneapolis police officers were fired by a light SUV at about 4:15 a.m. for providing neighborhood security near Penn Avenue and Broadway.
Hawkins noted that one member of the National Guard was taken to a local hospital for treatment for tears from broken glass, while the other had one ‘superficial injury’.
“I am relieved to know that none of our guards were seriously injured,” Major General Shawn Manke, the Minnesota National Guard’s adjutant general, said in a statement. “This event highlights the volatility and tension in our communities at the moment. I ask for peace as we work through this difficult time.”
The Minnesota National Guard has been activated in the area as part of Operation Safety Net, a joint effort between the Minneapolis Police Department, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the state of Minnesota and local jurisdictions to protect people, freedom of speech and property. during the Derek Chauvin trial and the aftermath of police were involved in the shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center during a stop.
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In the wake of Wright’s death, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted Friday in favor of developing a new traffic safety department.
Councilor Phillipe Cunningham outlined a staff member regarding the proposed development in a document obtained by KMSP, the Fox-owned TV station in Minneapolis, and posted on his social media account.
The document sets out four objectives of the new traffic enforcement section: maximizing the benefits to traffic safety of traffic enforcement, eliminating racial differences in traffic enforcement, educating the public about safe driving behavior and traffic laws, and earning the trust of communities through previous practices is disadvantaged.
We urgently need traffic safety in our community, “Cunningham said in a Facebook message announcing the proposal on Friday. We must also increase the increased traffic safety so as not to harm the neighbors much in the process. This issue is very complicated, but it is manageable. ‘
According to the document, staff from the Office for Performance and Innovation must report to the Public Health and Safety Committee at the end of the second term with a project timetable for the new department.
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Another sensational case that contributed to protests over the weekend is the death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was fatally wounded by an officer who responded to a report of the shootings in the Little Village in March. area in Chicago.
Cook County prosecutor James Murphy was placed on paid leave on Friday for failing to state in a statement that Toledo dropped a handgun he was holding before being shot by a Chicago police officer.
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report