What Next: Where Does Minneapolis Go Now?

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Old wounds are open again in Minneapolis. The city is struggling to investigate a police shooting from earlier this month, when officers carried out a “no-knock” search warrant and fatally shot a 22-year-old Black man in bed. The victim, Amir Locke, was not a suspect in the crime police were investigating. The shooting comes months after city voters rejected a plan to defund the police, and some city officials are struggling to figure out a path forward with a police force that’s been difficult to reform and an electorate that has little appetite for radical change. Guest: Jeremiah Ellison, member of the Minneapolis City Council. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?
0:03.2	No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.
0:05.9	Starbucks?
0:06.9	Obviously.
0:07.9	You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.
0:11.4	Ugh, that's nothing.
0:12.6	I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaming into my hair.
0:15.0	Oh yeah?
0:16.0	Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week, and my tent was a shape of a pumpkin.
0:19.8	Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.
0:24.9	The Starbucks original is back.
0:26.7	Go all out pumpkin spice, subject to availability while stocks last.
0:31.4	Heads up, there is a spot of exasperated bad language in this episode.
0:42.2	In Minneapolis this month, there is another video, a video of a young black man, 22-year-old
0:48.2	a mere lock, being killed by police.
0:51.0	I'm not going to play it, it's only 10 seconds long, it doesn't reveal a whole lot.
0:56.7	And it's really sad.
0:58.9	But Jeremiah Ellison, he had to watch.
1:02.8	When I watched the video for the first time, it was worse than I thought it would be.
1:07.0	How?
1:08.0	I mean, he's a kid.
1:14.0	Ellison is a city council member in Minneapolis.
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