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Black people account for about 20 percent of the city’s population, but they are more likely to be pulled over, arrested and have force used against them than white residents, Police Department data shows. And black people accounted for more than 60 percent of the victims in Minneapolis police shootings from late 2009 through May 2019, data shows.

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In a matter of 5 months in 2018, using undercover officers posing as buyers, they arrested 47 people for selling marijuana on Hennepin between 5th and 6th streets. The Hennepin County Public Defender’s office determined that 46 of those arrested were black. All were charged as felonies. Some were put in diversion programs, some were convicted and at least one man went to prison.“Almost all of those cases involve a sale of 1-2 grams of marijuana for a total of $10-$20,” assistant county public defender Jess Braverman wrote in a May 31 court document.

Of the 1,600 police misconduct complaints filed in Minneapolis from 2013 through 2018 — the last year of completed data — only 45 resulted in an officer being disciplined. Most of it was a mix of reprimands and suspensions. Five officers were successfully fired during that six-year period, and one was demoted.

During that time more than 270 misconduct allegations were resolved with nondisciplinary coaching.

 

About 3 percent of complaints against police officers that have been adjudicated since 2012 have resulted in disciplinary action, according to city records.

Bob Kroll was re-elected to head the Minneapolis Police Federation to his second two-year term after 423-184 vote in 2017, after they absolutely knew who he was. That is an overwhelming majority vote. 

The above photo shows Lt. Bob Kroll and Officer Mark Ringgenberg in the back row, socializing some time after the MPD killing of Jamar Clark. Kroll described Black Lives Matter as a “terrorist organization.” “I don’t see Black Lives Matter as a voice for the black community in Minneapolis,” he said. “The disruption, the, you know, they firebombed the precinct. There were shootings outside the precinct, hundreds of thousands of dollars [of damage] to the precinct and squad cars.” Kroll said Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, and their families, were all victims of the “obtrusive” investigation — all for “going to a 911 call and doing their job.”