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🦄 Community, Protest & Direct Action

Native Community Protests MPLS Security Company Who Beat, Maced, and Cuffed Indigenous Man

April 1, 2025April 9, 2025

Minneapolis, MN — On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, an Indigenous man was visiting the Franklin Library when he was reported to have been slammed headfirst into the ground multiple times, as well as maced and handcuffed by the security company Black Knight Protection Agency until…

🦄 Land & Housing, Police
Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, Homeless encampment raided, campers gather their belongings out of their tents

Minneapolis Continues Encampment Evictions, Displacing Hundreds in May

May 26, 2023May 28, 2023

Minneapolis, MN — During the month of May, the City of Minneapolis has been busy evicting encampments of unhoused people, displacing hundreds and throwing away many people’s only belongings. Minneapolis Police (MPD) displaced about 80 unhoused people on East Franklin Avenue in South Minneapolis on…


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