“It’s the exact opposite of honoring those election results and the message that the voters have sent with it by doing this sort of maneuver at this meeting tonight,” she said.

Council Member Maria Veach previously took her seat through an appointment process and said she “dealt with its aftermath for my entire term.”

“I knew that really well-intentioned people won’t be given a chance, and the appointment process is brutal,” Veach said. “Unfortunately, what we’re tasked with is unprecedented yet again.”

Berrett’s appointment failed on a 2-2 vote, with Walsh and Council Member Richard Crosby voting for her selection and Benson and Veach voting against. The city attorney said that, in the event of a tie, state law allows the mayor to appoint a new council member. Walsh immediately appointed Berrett, eliciting boos from the audience.

During public comment, multiple people spoke against Berrett’s selection, with some raising concerns about the process and some saying they knew little about her except that she had ties to a group that held a forum featuring Walsh in the runup to the election. (Walsh received just one-third of the votes in the November election, losing to Tunheim.)

Berrett didn’t address that head-on, but said she would tell people a little bit about herself. She said she has been an Orono resident for 29 years and has a “servant’s heart,” adding that she had served on a parents’ association and a parish council.

Minneapolis police are investigating after a man was shot to death outside a North Side gas station in the middle of the day.

The shooting occurred about 11:45 a.m. Monday outside Full Stop Gas & Food in the 1800 block of Lowry Avenue N., The Minneapolis Police Department said.

Officers arrived to find a man critically wounded. Emergency responders took the man to North Memorial Health Hospital, where he died.

The victim’s identity has not been released, and police have announced no arrests.

“Words were exchanged, and the second man pulled out a firearm” and opened fire, a police statement read.

“This senseless act of gun violence in broad daylight is unacceptable and shocking,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement.

There have been 69 homicides in the city so far this year, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune database. That compares with 61 at this time last year.