Daily Digest: One side of shooting story
Good morning. It's Thursday and as far as I can tell it's not raining, which may be a first for this week. Here is your Digest.
1. How is it that the head of the police union can talk when everyone involved in the investigation of Sunday's officer involved shooting in Minneapolis can't? In any case, the officers' side of the story is out. (Star Tribune)
2. It was a tense night outside a north Minneapolis police precinct. (MPR News)
3. The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission wants to cut sentences for drug crimes. (AP via Pioneer Press)
4. DFL leaders want to consider help for black Minnesotans if there is a special legislative session. (MPR News)
5. If some of our national politicians were schoolchildren they would be disciplined for talking to each others like bullies. (CNN)
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