One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again

One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again
"...it simply cannot be disputed that the prevalence of unjust killing and violence in the Twin Cities area has vastly increased since last summer’s protests and riots. 

• Minneapolis recorded its second-most homicides ever in 2020 — after only 1995, when the city was ignobly dubbed “Murderapolis” in national media. 
  
• And the trend has continued to escalate in 2021: between January 1 and April 25, the number of homicides increased by 92% compared to the same period in 2020. 
• More than 80% of the shooting victims in 2020 were black.

“We’re gonna blow Murderopolis off the charts this year,” one Minneapolis cop told me. (Names in this post have been withheld or partially redacted. As you may be aware, there is often intense suspicion of journalists amongst both civilians and police.)

• The situation is roughly the same in Saint Paul, which tied its all-time record for homicides in 2020. 
• This year, it is on pace to break that record comfortably...Read all.