The Minnesota Lynx are out of the WNBA semifinals after losing three consecutive games to the Phoenix Mercury. On Sunday, “the Lynx were playing without leading scorer and MVP runner-up Napheesa Collier due to an ankle injury that she suffered in Game 3 Friday night,” Bring Me the News Reports. “They were also without head coach Cheryl Reeve, who was suspended for Game 4 for her harsh criticism of the league and its officials following Minnesota’s Game 3 loss.”
One month has passed since the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School that killed two children and injured 21 others, mostly children. The community support for families has not waned, WCCO reports. On Saturday, “students, families and parishioners gathered beside the sanctuary” to “‘stand, to sing, to live, to nonviolently fight for Harper and Fletcher and all of us impacted on that day,’” school principal Matt DeBoer said.
The Trump administration has partially defunded a Minnesota program that “set(s) up systems to investigate threats that could lead to violence,” MPR News reports. The Behavioral Threat Assessment Management team, which is part of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension program, is “at the core of the state’s violence prevention efforts.” A release from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security called spending on violence prevention efforts “wasteful” and “ideologically-driven.”
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association is suing the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training alleging that the state agency should not have released licensing and employment data on thousands of officers to the media. “Even though POST explicitly said in its release the data did not include undercover officers; the MPPOA later notified POST that 257 officers included in the data were labeled as working in an undercover capacity, and should not have been identified,” reports Invisible Institute in collaboration with Sahan Journal. But reporters found that all but three of the 257 officers had some information identifying them as being a police officer in Minnesota before the release of the data.
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