We no longer believe that this could not happen here — this horror of race and death. Our hidden history of violence and despair, of power and privilege. This is here.
This is us.
The state where during the Summer of 1967, North Minneapolis erupted against police brutality. Where in 1989, two elderly black residents were killed in a fire after police threw a stun grenade into their apartment during a drug raid. Where police busted small birthday parties of black students, dangling them over the edge of the 6th-floor railing.