Mekhi Speed sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder of Otis Elder

Mekhi Speed, who plead guilty to the killing of Otis Elder in May was sentenced to 16 years and three months today in Ramsey County courthouse. In January, Minneapolis Police were serving a search warrant for Speed when they entered his apartment and shot and killed his cousin Amir Locke.

Minneapolis riot response was so bad, it'll take years to overhaul

City emergency management officials cautioned the Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday that it will take two more years to overhaul the city's efforts after scathing outside reviews of the botched response to the 2020 riots that followed the police murder of George Floyd.

Trial of ex-Minneapolis cops rescheduled again

The trial for the two former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with George Floyd's murder has been rescheduled, again. The state trial of Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, who are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting manslaughter in Floyd's May 2020 death, was rescheduled to Oct. 24, 2022, from Jan. 9, 2023.