To be black and armed in Minnesota

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Minnesota Public Radio

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🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

'There's this fear about a black man with a gun,' said Lucky Rosenbloom, a firearms trainer — who says he's likely the only African-American trainer in the state of Minnesota.

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0:00.0	The first trial of the former officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is underway.
0:06.0	Police officers are rarely prosecuted in such cases and the world will be watching.
0:11.0	The Minnesota Public Radio Newsroom which has followed this
0:14.3	case in detail from the beginning will bring listeners updates on this
0:18.3	monumental trial and the consequences it holds for the city and the country.
0:24.0	Listen to in front of our eyes, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.0	So what are you getting ready to do?
0:32.0	You said you were going to go stand out there?
0:34.0	What's your routine?
0:35.0	Well, what I do when I come here now, I just stand here and people will stop by sometimes and ask about my gun class.
0:41.0	Or I check my messages and they, I just took like three messages off and I'll call people back about the gun class
0:46.0	or people will come in and ask a legal question because the other sign is about job
0:51.0	discrimination Title VII.
0:52.0	So I can sum of everything. Some people will just
0:54.4	walk by and just say hi and hold a conversation.
0:56.7	This is 74 seconds.
1:05.0	I'm Tracy Mumford and this is Lucky.
1:09.0	Well, my name is Lucky Rosenblum and I'm president of the Minnesota Black Republican Coalition.
1:14.8	So I've always been about gun rights, people rights to protect yourselves because that's
1:19.1	what we believe in.
1:20.1	We believe everybody have a right to protect yourself.
1:22.8	I met up with Lucky at his office in a small garage right on the edge of Interstate 94 in St. Paul.
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