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Minneapolis City Council Vows It Will Dismantle Police Department: 'Our Efforts at Incremental Reform Have Failed. Period.'
Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council—enough to constitute a veto-proof supermajority—pledged to disband the Minneapolis police department on Sunday, as the city approached nearly two weeks of daily anti-police brutality protests following the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of MPD officers. The announcement was made at a community rally on Sunday.…
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Happy Pride! Division I Track Teammates Come Out as Couple
Brad Neumann and Justin Rabon, two runners on the University of Minnesota track team, are a proud couple in love. Each competitor recently penned his coming-out story for Outsports in honor of Gay Pride Month, both to help those who may be having their own struggles coming out, and to shatter stereotypes of what a…