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30 arrests, 5 citations issued over July 4th holiday
Minneapolis police said the number of people charged will likely increase as officers complete and review their reports.
MINNEAPOLIS — Law enforcement was on high alert in Minneapolis over the July 4th holiday and on Saturday officials provided an update to the number of those arrested in the city.
Starting on Wednesday night, police said officers started tracking posts and invitations on social media, inviting people to come to the city to “attack police and others with fireworks.”
“I don’t think I have to tell you that throwing fireworks at people is extremely dangerous,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara expressed in a press release. “It is dangerous to the people and police officers who were targeted, and it’s dangerous to the people committing these crimes. Two years ago, individuals were permanently scarred from injuries caused by fireworks that were thrown at them. Last year, a young man was seriously injured while attempting to attack another individual with a firework.”
Officials described this year’s response as “robust,” and police reported no one was seriously injured by fireworks. O’Hara thanked all the officers involved in the coordinated effort.
On Saturday morning, police said there were 30 confirmed arrests and five citations. Officials said it was likely that number would increase as reports are completed and reviewed.
Most of the incidents happened in the Dinkytown neighborhood. Officials said the majority of arrests were for felony level PC Riot and/ or Assult 4.
The ages of arrested and cited people ranged from 15 years old to 23 years old.
Police offered a recap of many of the incidents:
- 11:30 p.m. on July 4: A large group of people were throwing fireworks at each other and at vehicles near 4900 Lake Nokomis Parkway. Two adults were cited.
- Just before midnight: Near 14th Street and 4th Avenue South, a group fired fireworks at officers. Four men were arrested and booked.
- Around 12:30 a.m.: People in a vehicle were spotted aiming mortar-style fireworks at pedestrians near the 600 block of 12th Avenue Southeast. An adult and two juveniles were arrested.
- At approximately 1:15 a.m.: A group of men were throwing mortar fireworks at officers near 11th Avenue Southeast and 6th Street Southeast. Two adults and two juveniles were arrested.
- Before 1:30 a.m.: Police saw fireworks being thrown from a vehicle at pedestrians near 11th Avenue Southeast and 4th Street Southeast. Four adults were arrested when police stopped their vehicle.
- Around 1:40 a.m.: A large group was spotted shooting fireworks at people, vehicles and apartment buildings near 12th Avenue Southeast and 6th Avenue Southeast. Police said more than a dozen adults were arrested.
- Closer to 2 a.m.: A group was seen firing mortar rounds and throwing fireworks at police. An 18-year-old man was arrested.
- Nearly an hour later, around 3 a.m.: A group was observed by officers shooting fireworks at squad cars near Cedar Avenue and West Lake Nokomis Parkway. Two adults were arrested.
“I would like to thank the thousands of people who came to Minneapolis last night to celebrate the 4th of July,” O’Hara said. “I hope you had fun. That’s what the holiday is supposed to be about. Fun. It’s too bad I must be talking about being grateful nobody was seriously hurt. I hope you join me and thanking all our law enforcement partners who worked all night to keep the vast majority of people safe.”
Investigations are ongoing and anyone with more information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 612-673-5845.
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The crash happened when a Suburban pulling a trailer failed to stop at a stop sign, Minnesota State Patrol said.
WAUKENABO, Minn. — Two people from Minnetonka died in a crash Friday in Aitkin County while others, including children, were hurt.
According to Minnesota State Patrol, it happened at the intersection of Highway 169 and Grove Street/County Road 3 in Waukenabo Township at approximately 5:15 p.m.
A Suburban pulling a trailer was driving east on County Road 3 but did not stop at the stop sign at Highway 169, authorities said. The vehicle was struck by a northbound GMC Yukon. Two other vehicles were struck in the crash, but the people in those two cars were not injured.
In the Suburban, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to State Patrol. Elizabeth Jane Baldwin, 61, of Minnetonka, and Marlo Dean Baldwin, 92, of Minnetonka, both died. Officials said the driver of the vehicle, a 61-year-old from Minnetonka, has life-threatening injuries.
There were six people in the Yukon when the crash occurred. The 44-year-old driver, as well as passengers ages 18, 14, and 11, sustained what officials described as life-threatening injuries. The other two passengers have non-life-threatening injuries.
Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but officials said Elizabeth Jane Baldwin had not been wearing a seatbelt.
Among those at the start line this year will be Alex Vigil.
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Pixar’s second installment of the movie features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
MINNEAPOLIS — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” universe plays out inside the mind of the movie’s adolescent protagonist, Riley.
She plays a kid from Minnesota whose family uproots her life by moving to San Francisco. But did you know that what plays out in Riley’s mind actually comes from the mind of a real-life Minnesotan?
“You are one of us!” said Breaking the News anchor Jana Shortal.
“Yes, I am!” said Burnsville native and the movie’s creator and director, Kelsey Mann.
Mann was chosen for the role by ANOTHER Minnesotan — Pete Docter, the man behind the original movie, “Inside Out.”
“I don’t know if Pete asked me to do this movie because I was from Minnesota and he was from Minnesota … I just think it worked out that way,” Mann said.
How two guys from the south metro made a pair of Pixar movies that would change the game is a hell of a story that began with Docter in 2015.
“He [Docter] was just trying to tell a fun story — an emotional, fun story — and didn’t realize how much it would help give kids a vocabulary to talk about things they were feeling because they are feeling those emotions, but they’re really hard to talk about,” Mann said.
Some parents, counselors and teachers might even tell you it did more good for kids than just entertain them. It unlocked their emotions and begged for what Mann set out to create at the beginning of 2020.
“That part was fun, particularly fun,” he said. “I think the daunting part was following up a film that everyone really loved.”
But Mann knew what he wanted to do with the movie’s follow-up, “Inside Out 2.”
“Diving into Riley’s adolescence … that was just fun,” he said.
This time around, Riley is 13, hitting puberty and facing all of what, and who, comes with it. The franchise’s second installment features characters we’ve already met — Joy, Sadness and Anger — and gives them a new roommate named Anxiety.
“I think that’s what’s fun about the ‘Inside Out’ world: You can take something we all know and give it a face,” Mann said. “We can give anxiety a name and a face.”
The film follows Riley’s emotions fighting it out for control of her life. Joy wants Riley to stay young and hold on only to joy, while anxiety is hell-bent on taking over Riley over at the age of 13 because as a lot of us know, that’s when anxiety often moves in.
“I always pitched it as a takeover movie, like an emotional takeover,” Mann said. “Anxiety can kind of feel like that; it can take over and kind of shove your other emotions to the side and repress them.”
For a kids’ movie, it’s hard to watch this animation play out, even when an adult has the keys to decide.
“I’m making a movie about anxiety and I still have to remind myself to have my anxiety take a seat,” Mann said.
All of our individual anxieties have a place in this world.
“The whole movie honestly is about acceptance. Both acceptance of anxiety being there and also of your own flaws,” said Mann.
Even for our kids, we have to remember that this is life.
Anxiety will come for them; it does for us all.
The “Inside Out” world just shows them it’s so.
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