The mayor of Minneapolis announced that she had requested a federal civil rights investigation into the police shooting of a black man, who witnesses stated was shot while in custody. The announcement followed a series of protest actions by civil rights activists, including a Black Lives Matter sit-in at a police station.
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Mayor Betsy Hodges stated that although she has confidence in local police and state investigators, the city should use “all the tools we have available to us.”