‘An innocent man minding his business, traveling in his neighborhood home to see his family, gets killed because you violated a policy,’ said Ben Crump who represents the Frazier family.
Mel Reeves
Mel Reeves was the community editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder until he passed away on January 6, 2022. He had a long and storied history working at the MSR.
Find more about Reeve’s life and legacy here: spokesman-recorder.com/category/remembering-mel-reeves.
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Tragedy strikes again: Darnella Frazier’s uncle latest victim of police chase
At the makeshift vigil Wednesday night, the pain was palpable as family and friends gathered and shared stories and remembrances of Leneal Frazier.
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Activists demand justice, independent investigation for Winston Smith
Activists gathered Monday to call on Gov. Tim Walz to launch an independent investigation into the June 3 police shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith.
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A Fourth of July reflection for 2021
The Fourth of July is always a good time for Black folks to reflect and assess whether they are indeed free.
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Chauvin sentence points to all that remains undone
‘We must stay diligent out here in these streets, because no one is going to give us anything.’
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Homegoing ceremony for Winston Boogie Smith filled with laughter reflection, tears
Winston Boogie Smith was laid to rest in North Minneapolis after a moving funeral service.
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Witness in Winston Smith police shooting said she never saw a gun in the car
A woman who was in the car with Winston Smith when he was shot by law enforcement says she never saw a gun in the car.
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Violence flares again in Minneapolis as law enforcement kills man
The family of Winston Smith is demanding answers after he was shot and killed by members of a U.S. Marshal Task Force on Thursday afternoon.
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100 years later Tulsa still seeking justice
White settlers of Tulsa carried out a pogrom targeted Greenwood, as Black Tulsa was known, a community so prosperous and self-contained that Booker T. Washington dubbed it ‘Black Wall Street.’
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Prosecutor under pressure to add murder charges against officer who killed Daunte Wright
‘She needs to be charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.’
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St. Paul mayor, city council clash over proposed development
‘We are doing exactly what they did in the 1960s. $1,100 for a studio is too much for this community.’
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Chauvin guilty verdict victory tempered by the persistence of police violence
‘The media and powers that be will try to argue that the Floyd verdict shows that the justice system works. It doesn’t.’
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Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty, guilty, guilty!
A wild scene developed last Tuesday evening as history was made in the Twin Towns when Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder.
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Families victimized by police violence unite, call for higher charges for Daunte Wright’s killer
Family members of those killed by police gathered at a press conference on Friday in a show of unity with Daunte Wright’s mother Katie Wright and to press for police accountability.
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Activists demand police stop brutalizing protesters and release those detained
‘Bringing in the National Guard is not de-escalation curfew is not de-escalation.’
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Former medical examiner called for Chauvin defense is being sued for misdiagnosis
Dr. Fowler is currently the focus of a lawsuit brought by the Maryland ACLU on behalf of the family of Anton Black.
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Day 12 of Chauvin trial: defense calls its first witnesses
The day started with the defense’s thinly veiled effort to put George Floyd on trial.
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Day 10 of Chauvin trial: restraint was more than Floyd’s heart could take, says medical examiner
Day 10 of the Derek Chauvin trial featured the much-anticipated testimony of Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker.
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Day 8 of the Chauvin trial: defense claims Floyd resisted by crying out, ‘I can’t breathe’
Yet again, the defense showed that there is no line it will not cross to absolve Derek Chauvin of wrongdoing.
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Chief describes an MPD unrecognizable to many Mpls Blacks
‘People have been killed by the Minneapolis Police Department under very questionable circumstances…’