February 11, 2016 by The Journal

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A SPECIAL REPORT ON GUN VIOLENCE

VICTIMS’ STORIES Conversations with a shooting victim and someone who lost a brother to gun violence PAGE 14

HCMC PROGRAM HCMC launches pilot program to intervene in lives of shooting victims

An in-depth look at gun violence in Minneapolis and strategies locally and nationally to fight the problem

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FEDERAL RESPONSE A closer look at President Obama’s recent executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence

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CAUSES OF VIOLENCE

PEOPLE WERE VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS IN 2015

An examination of what is fueling the increase in gun violence in Minneapolis PAGE 17

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Park Board overrides mayoral veto of parks referendum

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By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com Park commissioners overrode a rare mayoral veto Feb. 3 of the proposed parks referendum. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted 7-1 to override Mayor Betsy Hodges’ veto of a resolution seeking a November referendum that would raise roughly $300 million over the next two decades to maintain the city’s nearly 160 neighborhood parks. In her veto message released Feb. 1, Hodges said the Park Board needs to redraft its resolution to include more flexibility if the city faces unforeseen fiscal pressures and language addressing what would be done if it collected more than

projected. Hodges acknowledged a need for consistent investment into Minneapolis parks, but wrote the board’s resolution “simply goes too far toward that goal.” “It would provide an unprecedented level of guarantee for park dollars, a guarantee that does not exist for essential services like police and fire,” Hodges wrote. “If the language is redrafted, this will increase the chances of success.” The measure needed support from six members of the semi-autonomous Park Board to override the veto. Last month, the resolution garnered an 8-0 vote with one commissioner absent. Several commissioners who voted to

override the veto said they’re open to the mayor’s comments and in continuing conversations with her and the City Council. In her veto message, Hodges outlined her main concern: a lack of flexibility in the “extremely aggressive” proposed agreement that would change the fiscal relationship between the board and the city. If the city faced disproportionate funding cuts, Hodges wrote, the city should be able to use excess funds collected from the referendum to preserve fire, police or other essential services. Because the proposal would collect a SEE PARKS REFERENDUM / PAGE 8

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The Minneapolis condo king is at it again with a proposed 14-story condo project with a whopping 374 units. Jim Stanton’s Shamrock development is proposing its 10th condo project in downtown Minneapolis, the 726,000-square-foot Legacy planned for 13th Avenue & 2nd Street near the Mill District, according to plans submitted to the Minneapolis City Planning Commission’s Committee of the Whole. The more than 4-acre site is home to the now-empty Cenveo building and a 148-stall surface parking lot, according to the plans. Shamrock isn’t proposing any commercial space in the building. Legacy would be made out of a variety of materials — stone, glass, metal panel, wood grain panel and fiber cement composite panels — to complement Shamrock’s nearby Bridgewater and Stonebridge condo communities. The units, which would range from 950 to

3,900 square feet, would be divided from as high as 33 units per floor to just nine units on the top three floors. Legacy, proposed for 121 12th Ave. S., would have nearly 700 parking stalls with three underground parking levels. The developer is proposing a host of amenities, including a playground, pet exercise area, pool and spa, bike racks, a community room, game room, green roof, lawn bowling and an exercise room. St. Paul-based Oertel Architects is handling the project’s design. The preliminary plans are up for discussion at the CPC’s Committee of the Whole meeting on Feb. 11, after this issue went to press. Planning staff have a number of concerns with the current plans. They plan to discuss the project’s overall massing, the number of materials and the location of utilities, among other concerns, at the meeting.

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Laura Bonicelli has found a new location for her restaurant in Northeast Minneapolis. The chef and owner of food delivery company Bonicelli Fresh Meal Delivery has been at work for the past year to open a new restaurant in Windom Park. But the concept, a Kickstarter-backed neighborhood restaurant and cafe, hit a snag last year after a property owner couldn’t uphold their end of a lease. Bonicelli announced that she will be moving the concept to 1839 Central Ave. NE, just four blocks away from the original location. Bonicelli Kitchen will have a wine bar, indoor seating for 40 and a 20-seat, dog-friendly patio. Last spring, $60,000 in Kickstarter funds jumpstarted the restaurant plans. Bonicelli

said in a statement that she would honor the campaign rewards. “We’re so appreciative of our supporters’ patience as this process has hit a few unexpected bumps in the road,” she said. Bonicelli Kitchen will offer breakfast, lunch and to-go items. In the late afternoon, the restaurant will transition into a fullservice kitchen, and on weekends Bonicelli Kitchen will serve brunch. She said guests can expect scratch-made wraps, muffins, soups and sandwiches for to-go service and small-plate offerings in the evening. The meal delivery service will remain intact. Bonicelli plans to open the restaurant early this summer.

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Relaxation Point, a longstanding massage therapy and acupuncture clinic in downtown Minneapolis, has relocated to the Medical Arts Building after renovation projects pushed it out of the Baker Center. Owner and practitioner Michael Studer has reopened the clinic on the ninth floor of the building at 825 Nicollet Mall. It was previously located on the ground floor of

the Baker Center for 13 years. Relaxation Point offers a unique combination of acupuncture styles, in addition to cupping and massage therapy. The clinic is now open for both existing and new patients. Relaxation Point is open 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The clinic is open Saturday by arrangement.

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Developer Curt Gunsbury has his eyes on another parcel in the North Loop, this time across the street from his Soltvå apartment building. Gunsbury’s Solhem Companies is proposing to build an eight-story apartment building with 124 apartments along 8th Avenue North between 1st and 2nd streets, according to submitted plans. The wood-frame and concrete building at 721 1st St. N. would have a roughly 5,000-square-foot, privately maintained public park on its southeastern side. The proposed park, which could be built in lieu of paying a park dedication fee, is located above Bassett Creek. While the city encourages green space around Bassett Creek, Gunsbury said the North Loop could simply use more. “We’re in the neighborhood. We believe in the neighborhood. It definitely needs green space,” he told The Journal. Solhem is considering a formal public distinction for the park, which would need approval from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the Minneapolis City Council. Even if they don’t pursue the distinction, Gunsbury said, the project will have the green space. The proposed building, which would replace part of a surface parking lot, would have a mixture of market-rate one-

bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, along with micro-units or studios similar to other Solhem properties. Gunsbury is currently constructing the seven-story Nolo Flats apartment building, which almost entirely focuses on these smaller, amenity-laden units. He said the neighborhood is lacking micro-units or studios, which range from about 400-550 square feet. “We know how to build appealing units in that size range, so we’re naturally going to include them,” he said. The project also features one and a half stories of above ground parking and one story of underground parking for a total of 224 spaces. St. Paul-based Momentum Design Group is handling the project’s design. In the plans, Gunsbury described the project as being made from “traditional materials found throughout the neighborhood.” The proposal is slated to go before the City Planning Commission’s Committee of the Whole Jan. 28. Because the site is within the St. Anthony Falls Historic District, it will also need Heritage Preservation Commission approval. The developer expects to break ground this July and complete construction in the summer of 2017.

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to wine on tap and specialty craft cocktails. Paul Katz, corporate executive chef, is handling the menu, which features reinvented American fare. “The property is seen as the gateway to the warehouse, entertainment, downtown and cultural districts,” said CEO Phillip Jaffe of Plymouth-based Provident Real Estate Ventures LLC, which owns Mayo Clinic Square, in a prepared statement. “We are confident that Bottleneck Management will speak to all Mayo Clinic Square visitors including sports fans, music and art enthusiasts, business professionals and families, while offering a more upscale and modern approach to the everyday sports bar concepts seen in Downtown Minneapolis.”

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August Schell Brewing Company is buying the Grain Belt Beer sign on Nicollet Island with the hope of relighting the sign in 2017. The New Ulm, Minn.-based brewers of Grain Belt beer have finalized the sale of the Minneapolis landmark, which they hope to restore and have named to the National Register of Historic Places. The 75-year-old sign, a regular sight from the Hennepin Avenue bridge, was last lit in the 1990s. August Schell will work with Minneapolis-based historical consultants Hess, Roise and Company to have the sign preserved. The company previously worked to rehabilitate the old Grain Belt brewery in Northeast Minneapolis and renovate the North Star Blankets sign in the Mill District. “It’s a gem, a bodacious Minneapolis landmark — and a rare survivor among the once common supersized signs that advertised products and attractions across the United

States,” said Charlene Roise, president of Hess, Roise and Company, in a statement. In 2014, August Schell announced its intention to buy the 50-foot by 40-foot porcelain-faced sign and the land beneath it from the Eastman Family Trust. The landmark was relocated to Nicollet Island in 1950 from the now-demolished Marigold Ballroom on Nicollet Avenue. The relighting would follow similar efforts to get riverfront signs restored and relit, such as the Pillsbury’s Best Flour sign and the North Star Blankets sign. August Schell hopes to light up the Minneapolis riverfront skyline once again by the summer of 2017. August Schell, the state’s largest and oldest brewery, bought the Grain Belt brand in 2002. To celebrate the purchase, the brewery is releasing a new brew, dubbed Lock & Dam for the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, in April.

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D’Amico Catering is expanding its relationship with the Minnesota Historical Society to add restaurants in the Mill City Museum and Minnesota History Center. Twin Cities-based D’Amico will create and operate a new restaurant and a seasonal food truck at Mill City Museum in Downtown East. Previously, the company ran the museum’s cafe. As part of the agreement, D’Amico will be the exclusive caterer for both

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Water Works, a large-scale RiverFirst project, would bring a visitor pavilion to the Central Riverfront Regional Park. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation

General Mills gives $3M for riverfront park projects By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com General Mills has chipped in $3 million for several Mississippi riverfront park projects, leading corporate donations for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board’s RiverFirst initiative. The Golden Valley-based company’s gift will be split into supporting an overhaul of riverfront land with a new park, dubbed Water Works, and a smaller plan to better link North Minneapolis to the river via bike and pedestrian trails. The donation is the result of a $15 million fundraising effort over the past six months from the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, which serves as a philanthropic partner with the Park Board, to support these first two RiverFirst projects. Chief among the RiverFirst projects is Water Works, which will transform the downtown riverfront area near the Stone Arch Bridge and Mill Ruins Park with a new visitor center, bolstered trail connections and the restoration of historic mill infrastructure beneath the former Fuji Ya building. The roughly $27 million project will see about $2 million of General Mills’ contribution. The gift also includes $850,000 for the creation of a trail link and pier along 26th Avenue North, a project that’s expected to break ground in 2018. The 26th Avenue project features a pier overlooking the North Side’s riverfront and a quarter-mile trail connection between 26th Avenue and West River Parkway. A $150,000 portion will go toward designing a park planned at the former Scherer Bros. site near Northeast Minneapolis where the board is eventually planning to

restore Hall’s Island. The gift brings the Minneapolis Parks Foundation to 60 percent of its $15 million goal, which will cover about half the total cost of Waters Works and the 26th Avenue North project. The first $6 million in committed funding is coming from private donors, including $3 million from the foundation’s board members, said Tom Evers, executive director of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation. The Park Board has also pledged more than $6 million toward the larger Water Works, while about $10 million is expected to come from state, federal and other sources. Evers told the Journal he expects the remaining $6 million to come from a mix of corporate and private donors. General Mills’ gift, which commemorates the company’s 150th birthday, leads corporate gifts for the riverfront projects, proposed for the very area where it was founded. “150 years is cause for celebration and what better way to celebrate this milestone than to give a birthday gift to the very birth place of our company,” said Ken Powell, CEO and board chair of General Mills, at a Jan. 27 press conference. “All that General Mills is today ties back to this very place and is intrinsically woven into the foundation of this city.” RiverFirst will see its first groundbreaking with the partial demolition of the Fuji Ya building as part of Water Works. The twostory building located between West River Parkway and 1st Street was once home to the iconic Japanese restaurant. The fundraising effort is far enough along that the board has

brought on consultants to move the project forward. “It really is an indication to the rest of the community that this project is moving forward,” Evers said. The Park Board has a contract with MacDonald & Mack Architects to provide services to begin selectively demolishing the building, which Evers said he expects to begin as early as this summer. The board hopes to uncover the 19th century mill foundations beneath the building. Water Works would bring a new visitor center and café pavilion near the Third Avenue Bridge, along with new river access for canoes and kayaks, water features and outdoor gathering spaces. The project would capitalize on the popularity of the Central Riverfront Regional Park, which sees 2.5 million visitors annually. The park is slated to be built in two phases over seven years, one between this year and 2019 and another between 2021 and 2023. The Park Board expects to have schematic designs of the 26th Avenue North project finished by this fall. Along with the restoration and build out of Hall’s Island, the board is working on restoring wetlands at the Upper Harbor Terminal site in North Minneapolis and building trails for pedestrians and bikers along the entire upper riverfront. Mayor Betsy Hodges called the RiverFirst projects “transformative for Minneapolis.” “At least once a century General Mills transforms the river,” she said.

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Community weighs in on Police Chief Harteau’s reappointment Many community leaders had high praise for Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau during a public hearing Feb. 3 on her reappointment for another three-year term. The City Council’s Public Safety & Regulatory Services Committee took public comments on her reappointment and was scheduled to the continue the public hearing Feb. 10 at the Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting after this edition of the Journal went to press. The chief ’s reappointment comes as the MPD is under increased scrutiny in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark on Nov. 15 and the 18-day occupation of the 4th Precinct that followed. Mayor Betsy Hodges, who first announced her decision to reappoint Harteau in September, said she recommends the chief for the job again without “reservation or hesitation.” She commended the chief for organizing the MPD around a central question, which asks officers to consider how they would want their family members to be treated when they interact with people on the job. Hodges also lauded the chief for seeking out the opportunity to be part of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust & Justice — a three-year national project designed to improve police department’s relationships with the communities that have long histories of tensions with the police. The city’s 2016 budget includes

Police Chief Janeé Harteau addresses a City Council committee on Feb. 3. Photo by Annabelle Marcovici

funding for all officers to go through implicit bias and procedural justice training as part of that project. She also highlighted their recent request to have the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office to do an independent review of the city’s response to the occupation of the MPD’s 4th Precinct. “We stand by our officers, but if there are places where we could have done better, we need to know that,” Hodges said. Harteau, who begins her 30th year with the MPD this month, said the important work of reforming the department is just beginning. “When I became chief we began a long journey of transformational change, and it starts from the inside out,” she said. “... I

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Neighbors of the future Blue Line LRT extension project expressed concerns about the train’s potential impact on crossing times on Olson Memorial Highway and the loss of trees at a public hearing on municipal consent for the project before the City Council on Feb. 2. They also raised worries that the project could gentrify the area — making housing unaffordable in North Side neighborhoods along the line. The proposed $1.48 billion project would link downtown Minneapolis with Brooklyn Park — a 13-mile route that would also pass through Golden Valley, Robbinsdale and Crystal. It would be the region’s fourth LRT line and open following the anticipated launch of Southwest LRT in 2020 — an extension of the Green Line linking downtown Minneapolis with Eden Prairie. Service on the Blue Line Extension (Bottineau Corridor) is expected to start in 2021. From downtown, the line would head west from Target Station to Van White Boulevard Station and then Penn Avenue station along Olson Memorial Highway. It would then turn north and head to the Plymouth Avenue station near Theodore Wirth Park. Several people spoke before the City Council’s Transportation & Public Works Committee with frustrations about the plan for the line along Olson Memorial Highway. They said the current 30-second pedestrian crossing time for Olson is insufficient and also questioned why planners decided to keep six to seven lanes of traffic on the busy roadway. Alexis Pennie spoke before the Council committee and said the decision to keep all of the lanes is a major missed opportunity. He said project planners need to do more to ensure that the area remains safe and meets the needs of neighbors. “The development along Olson Memorial Highway needs to embody

the community’s vision — 30 percent affordable housing is what we are seeking,” he said. The Minnesota Department of Transportation, however, would not allow a lane reduction, said City Council Member Blong Yang (Ward 5). Highway 55 (Olson Memorial) will be fully reconstructed from 1-94 to Theodore Wirth Park where the train heads north on a rail corridor, said Blue Line LRT project director Dan Soler. Stations will be located in the middle of highway. The posted speed limit of this stretch of Olson Memorial will be reduced to 35 mph and lanes will be narrowed, Soler said. Yang said he’s supportive of the project, but said he wishes more North Minneapolis residents had better access to the train. “My only regret is that this line didn’t cut through more of North Minneapolis,” he said. The Council committee passed a resolution granting municipal consent for

the Blue Line extension, but Council Members Lisa Bender (Ward 10) and Cam Gordon (Ward 2) also expressed concerns. The full City Council will vote on municipal consent for the project Feb. 12. Gordon said the proposed Olson design for the LRT line looks like something you’d see in the suburbs, not in an urban area. He said he had hoped that there would be a grade separation on Olson for the LRT and adjacent traffic to make it more pedestrian friendly. “It still seems to me like it’s a very wide road,” he said. “I’m still concerned about that it’s not going to actually help connect the neighborhoods on either side of this.” Bender said the design reflects the “status quo” — not a future that also prioritizes bikers and pedestrians and accounts for the environmental impact of heavy vehicle traffic on neighborhoods. “I do think this project is not realizing its full potential for the city of Minneapolis. That’s because we’re still planning these huge transportation investments for too short a time window,” Bender said. “Our traffic models assume that people will continue to drive at their current rates, and we know that if we design our transportation system to make it easy and inexpensive to drive they will — it’s called induced demand.” Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer spoke in favor of the Blue Line extension project and said the Legislature needs to act this session to ensure there’s a more sustainable revenue source for transportation projects in the state. “We need to provide more and better ways for people to get to and around downtown, and this is one of those steps,” he said.

The Park Board seeks to close a growing annual funding gap to maintain the city’s 157 neighborhood parks. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

FROM PARKS REFERENDUM / PAGE 1 percentage (.0388 percent) of estimated market value of the city, rather than an exact dollar amount, the board would only be able to estimate its revenue, Hodges wrote. Commissioners Annie Young and Meg Forney said they are interested in adding a hold harmless clause to the resolution’s agreement component with the city. There was some pushback from the board. Commissioner Anita Tabb defended the proposed referendum’s built-in growth for inflation due to increasing costs over its 20-year life. “If you look 20 years down the road, we’re trying to protect the system for a significant period of time,” she said. Young said they should not lose any extra funds raised from the referendum because even with the additional money the board is simply closing its funding gap. “We have plenty to fix in this system,” she said. District 6 Commissioner Brad Bourn, who represents Southwest Minneapolis and previously criticized the referendum resolution, said the mayor’s veto brought

an opportunity to add language regarding equity and to work with other city officials. “I think that sends a message that we don’t want to work with our friends at City Hall and our friends at the mayor’s office,” he said of the veto override. Parks Superintendent Jayne Miller said they are proactively working to strengthen the language regarding equity, but with limitations to the ballot language itself, she could bring a decision-making framework

to guide the board’s referendum-related spending. Commissioner John Erwin, who previously supported the referendum proposal, was absent for the vote. The referendum proposal was the result of a year-long initiative from the Park Board to find a solution to the park system’s growing $140 million backlog in maintenance and infrastructure needs. Commissioners are seeking to raise property taxes by

Mayor Betsy Hodges and Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced Feb. 2 that they have made a request to the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office to do an independent review of the city’s response to the 18-day occupation of the MPD’s 4th Precinct station. The goal of the review is to gather insights from the experience to help Minneapolis and other cities across the country improve relationships and ensure civil rights are protected in the communities they serve, according to the mayor’s office. Protesters demonstrated outside the MPD’s 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis following the police shooting death of Jamar Clark on Nov. 15 just blocks from the police station. Two officers involved in the shooting are under investigation by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI. Police have said Clark was interfering with paramedics trying to help an assault victim and then got in a struggle with police when he was shot. They say he wasn’t handcuffed at the time, which has been disputed by witnesses at the scene. Protest leaders have been highly critical of how Hodges and Harteau responded to the protests at the 4th Precinct. “To move forward and grow together, we must constantly assess our actions and pursue continuous improvement,” Hodges said in a prepared statement. “An independent review of the City’s response to the protests at the 4th Precinct will provide the city — our leaders, our departments, and our residents — with important insight into what was done well and where we can do better in the future. This assessment will have value not only for Minneapolis, but for cities around the country.” Harteau said that COPS is often called to conduct reviews into incidents that may become a future trend. “This process will help the Minneapolis Police Department and other law-enforcement agencies nationally look at some new challenges and new opportunities for us to improve our profession,” she said.

approximately $15 million per year for the life of the referendum. Miller estimates the increase would translate to $66 a year for taxpayers with a $190,000 home, about $112 a year for those with $300,000 homes and about $174 annually for those with $450,000 homes. While the Park Board is seeking the tax increase, it lacks the power to place it on the city’s November ballot. Miller and commissioners are working with the City Council, Charter Commission, the Legislature and a citizen group to move it forward. The board recently hosted an annual event with local lawmakers to showcase their legislative agenda and discuss the referendum. Mark Andrew, a former Hennepin County commissioner, is chairing a citizen effort to support the referendum and reiterated his support at the board’s meeting. They would need to collect approximately 6,900 signatures between May and July to authorize a referendum, according to the board. “The citizen group stands ready, willing and, hopefully, able to assist this effort in the weeks and months ahead,” he said.

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TRACKING THE TOLL OF GUN VIOLENCE By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com Gun violence claimed the lives of more than 40 people in Minneapolis in 2015 and two people this year — including a 25-year-old Brooklyn Park man in North Minneapolis on Jan. 26 and a 20-year-old West St. Paul man on New Year’s Day in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood. Hundreds more have been injured during shootings. A total of 256 people were injured by gunfire in Minneapolis in 2015 — up from 227 in 2014, according to Minneapolis police records. As of Feb. 1, there have been 23 shooting victims in 2016. They include two women struck by bullets in an Uber car near the Penn Avenue exit on I-394W on Sunday, Jan. 10. The women left downtown around 2:30 a.m. in the Uber vehicle. One victim was shot in the arm and another in the back. They were taken to HCMC with non-life threatening injuries, according to police. The freeway shooting remains under investigation and police haven’t released any information about what motivated the violence. Reports of shootings on the weekends after bar close in the city have become routine. The Warehouse District has been a hot spot for gun violence, as have neighborhoods on the North Side and in South Minneapolis. The city reported 49 homicides last year — up from 32 in 2014 — and the highest number since 2006 when Minneapolis had 57 homicides. Many of the victims were black men under the age of 30 who died from gunfire. The number of homicides, however, is down considerably from the record 97 murders in 1995 — the year the New York Times gave the city the nickname “Murderapolis.” Minneapolis had a higher murder rate than New York City that year. Still, the uptick in violence is troubling in a city that has seen historically low rates of violent crime for many years.

A national trend The increase in homicides mirrors trends in many major American cities across the country. Chicago had the most homicides of any city in America in 2015 with a total of 468 — up from 416 in 2014, according to the Chicago Tribune. Overall, more than 2,900 people were shot in the city last year. The increase in gun violence in Minneapolis prompted Police Chief Janeé Harteau, Mayor Betsy Hodges and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to announce a new strategy in mid-November targeting violent gun offenders. Six veteran MPD investigators have formed a new violent crimes investigations team. Freeman has assigned a prosecutor with experience working on gang and gun violence cases to work closely with the team. The Minneapolis Police Department also has two new National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) investigators that work closely with the ATF on shooting cases. Minneapolis Police Deputy Chief of Staff Medaria Arradondo said the new violent

Posters at an October rally for peace displayed a photo of Abdi Liban, who was killed in a shooting near Lake & Pleasant Oct. 19. File photos

crimes investigations team can take a deeper dive into gun crime investigations. They look at each incident, “peel back the layers,” and determine what kinds of risk factors the victims faced, he said. Harteau has also been active at the national level in calling for more action to address gun violence. At the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference in Chicago in late October, she said more needs to be done to keep guns out of the wrong hands. “The only common denominators we’re finding in every city that has been plagued with this increase is that repeat offenders are illegally getting their hands on firearms. That is why these conversations are vital to addressing this problem with a sense of urgency,” Harteau said. She was also invited to speak at the launch of former Congressman Gabby Giffords’ new bipartisan coalition focused on combatting gun violence and domestic abuse in midOctober in Washington, D.C. The Women’s Coalition for Common Sense will focus on preventing stalkers and abusers from accessing guns. Harteau was the only law enforcement official invited to be part of the coalition. “As a law enforcement officer, too many times I’ve seen the tragic and horrific results of gun violence against women and their families,” she said. “And too many times, I’ve seen how deadly of a mix that domestic abuse and access to firearms can be.” City Council Member Cam Gordon (Ward 2) plans to introduce a resolution Feb. 18 at the City Council’s Intergovernmental Relations committee meeting that calls on Congress to pass legislation repealing the ban on gun violence research as a public health crisis through the Centers for Disease Control. Gordon joins several other local leaders across the country affiliated with the National

ABOUT THIS PROJECT The Journals have taken an in-depth look at gun violence in Minneapolis. To see a map of homicides in Minneapolis in 2015 and 2016, go to journalmpls.com. In the Feb. 25 edition, we will take a look at investigators working on gun crimes and how Minnesota’s gun laws compare to others around the country, among other stories.

Network to Combat Gun Violence in pushing for the repeal on the research. “Gun violence is clearly a public health issue,” Gordon wrote in a recent letter to constituents. “Minneapolis has recognized this for a long time. Indeed it is an important element of our Youth Violence Prevention plan. As a city and a nation we need our best scientific minds and resources to help us address this major public health crisis, which resulted in 12,518 deaths and 22,886 injuries in the U.S. in 2014.”

The victims Three people were shot to death in Minneapolis as the result of domestic violence last year, according to the 2015 Femicide Report recently released by the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women. In total, 34 people throughout Minnesota were killed due to domestic violence in 2015, up from 23 the year before. The domestic violence victims in Minneapolis who were killed by guns include: Ayan Abdi Abdulahi, Eugenia “Gina” Tallman and Victoria Alvarez. Abdi Abdulahi, 21, of Bloomington was shot and killed by a boyfriend on April 11 in South Minneapolis. Ahmed Abdirahim Abdi, 17, was later arrested in Kansas City, Mo., and charged with second-degree murder. Gonzalo Galvan, 50, has been charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife Tallman, 48, and her daughter Victoria Alvarez, 15, in South Minneapolis on Sept. 25. The couple’s 7-year-old son was at home during the murders and has been taken into protective custody, according to the Femicide Report. Tallman had told family members that she had planned to leave Galvan. He had three separate domestic assault charges, but none resulted in convictions. The most high-profile homicide of 2015 was the shooting death of Jamar Clark, 24, by police during an altercation on Plymouth Avenue on the North Side in the early hours of Nov. 15. Two officers involved in the shooting remain under investigation by the FBI and the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The shooting prompted protesters to setup

an encampment at the 4th Precinct. Eight days after Clark was shot, another shooting near the police station made national news. Four men shot five protesters (all black men) around 10:40 p.m. on Nov. 23 near the police station — a racially motivated crime that sparked outrage locally and across the country. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman charged Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville with second-degree assault and riot charges on Nov. 30 in connection with the 4th Precinct shooting. Three other men with him at the time were also each charged with one count of second-degree riot-armed with a dangerous weapon. Other people fatally shot in 2015 included Julio Mozo-Cuate, 42, in Kingfield. He was shot multiple times in an alley after an apparent robbery on Oct. 18. Three men and one woman have been charged in connection with his murder. One day later, Abdi Liban, 61, a security guard at the nearby Horn Towers, was shot to death near Lake & Pleasant in the Lyndale neighborhood. His case remains under investigation. Other high-profile shootings in downtown Minneapolis left many unnerved as well. Dejon Frazier, 18, of Burnsville was charged Sept. 23 with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Sabrae Mcalester, 16, by a bus shelter near 4th & Hennepin shortly after 2 a.m. on July 5. The Warehouse District was rocked by gun violence again on Sept. 12 when three men engaged in a gun battle near 5th & Hennepin around 2:30 a.m. Six people were injured in the shooting. The county attorney’s office charged Maurice Carter, 25, and Detroit Davis-Riley, 26, with nine counts of first-degree assault

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for shooting in the direction of police officers three days later. Then on Sept. 21, Demarco Lavelle Gunn, 23, was charged with seconddegree assault for his role in the gunfight. Freeman addressed the City Council’s Public Safety & Regulatory Services Committee following the shooting spree. “We know that crime has bumped back up,” Freeman said. “It’s increased everywhere. … Nobody can really explain all of this. The one thing that we know and we’re very aggressive about is trying to keep guns out of the hands of felons.” Minneapolis police inventoried 685 guns as evidence in 2015 with more than half recovered from the city’s 4th Precinct (North Minneapolis.)

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Sentences for gun crimes Many people involved in gun crimes are repeat offenders. When police leaders announced the formation of the new gun violence investigations team, they also provided an analysis of gun offenders in 2015. By the end of October, 526 people had been arrested in incidents where guns were recovered. Of that group, 17 had been arrested more than once with a gun in 2015. Since 1990, that same group of 526 have been arrested by the MPD a total of 6,271 times. In mid-October, Harteau denounced the spike in gun violence after a homicide occurred in Kingfield. “This community needs peace. We need people to put the guns down. These (recent) cases aren’t necessarily related but the common denominator is gun violence,” Harteau said, as she was surrounded by community members at the scene. “Addressing gun violence is a priority for Mayor Hodges and me. We are looking at all of our resources right now. Many of our suspects in the shootings this year have lengthy criminal histories. They’re not first time offenders in the criminal justice system and we need to find ways to connect those dots, and try to predict and prevent shootings before the next one occurs.” The mandatory minimum sentence for a felon in possession of a gun in Minnesota is five years, but judges don’t always stick to that guideline. Gun crimes can also be difficult to investigate because witnesses often want street justice and retaliation, making it difficult for

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(Source: Minneapolis Police Department) police to gather information, police leaders have said. A jury found a 30-year-old St. Paul woman guilty of second-degree murder Feb. 1 in the shooting death of a 32-year-old Minneapolis woman at Augie’s Cabaret at 5th & Hennepin on Oct. 18, 2014. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for March 14 for Jasmine Nicole Jones. Jones turned herself into the Hennepin County Jail later in the day after the fatal

shooting of Lakisha Marie Neal and handed over a 9mm handgun to authorities. Surveillance video at Augie’s captured the entire shooting, showing Jones pulling out a handgun and shooting Neal. The women had been fighting for a while, according to the criminal complaint filed against Jones. They got into a verbal dispute in the club that later turned physical. Bouncers separated the women and then they headed to the back of the club. Witnesses also confirmed

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that Jones pulled out a gun and shot Neal in the head before heading out the back door. Neal was pronounced dead at the scene. In another case of gun violence, a Brooklyn Park man recently pleaded guilty to shooting a cab driver on the Hennepin Avenue Bridge on Sept. 4 — an attack that left the driver with bullet wounds in his right thigh and right forearm, according to the criminal complaint. Anthony Terell Ford, 21, also pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting at a McDonald’s at 45th & Lyndale shortly after the cab driver shooting. He admitted in court to the shootings and said he was drunk that night. Ford shot at the taxicab around 2:50 a.m. and then later fired at a woman while she was in the McDonald’s drive-thru. Two children were also in her car at the time. Ford has pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault, one count of drive-by shooting and one count of being a felon in a possession of a gun. His sentencing hearing is Feb. 12 and he faces the potential for more than 14 years in prison. Another Minneapolis man also recently pleaded guilty to murder charges for the shooting death of a 19-year-old man in the Stevens Square neighborhood on May 6. Eugene Watkins, 19, is facing a 30-year prison sentence for killing Jason Adams. He will be sentenced March 7. Watkins went to an apartment in Stevens Square with the intention of buying marijuana from Adams. He then pulled out a gun and told one of Adams’ friends to hand over all of the drugs, according to the criminal complaint. Adams also pulled out a gun and the two men started shooting at each other. Watkins, who was also wounded, was arrested at the hospital. Adams died at HCMC of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. Adams grew up in the Armatage neighborhood. Denis Houle, a neighbor of Adams’ family, told the Southwest Journal that his son grew up playing basketball with Adams. “Jordan was a really nice kid,” he said. “He was definitely the best player on the team. There was never a reason to think that anything like this was going to happen.”

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STORIES FROM PEOPLE IMPACTED BY GUN VIOLENCE By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com Someone new lives in the Northeast apartment that belonged to Eulalio GonzalezSanchez, who was killed in a 2014 robbery a block from the door. But the new resident is no stranger to gun violence either. Timothy Martin has been shot twice. At age 17 in Flint, Mich., he said he was walking down the street and met a spray of gunfire intended for someone else. Then at age 18 in Indianapolis, he said he kicked a man out of his apartment who wanted to gamble over a chess game. Martin said later that night, he opened the door and was hit with a shot to his stomach and spine. Although the incidents are 30 years old, they’re still a major part of Martin’s life. He has night terrors. Nearly 100 shotgun pellets are still embedded in his body. He takes medicine for back pain. Relationships are hard, because he’s spent so many years bottling up the shooting experiences and trying to forget about them. He deals with post-traumatic stress disorder. “People in urban areas and rough areas get PTSD too,” he said. “…Sometimes when you live in a rough neighborhood, you think it’s not going to affect you, but it does.” Jessie McDaniel of North Minneapolis said he feels blessed to reach age 22.

I understand how young kids are thinking. I was thinking the same way. You think you’re invincible, and you can’t get shot, you can’t get hurt. — Timothy Martin, Northeast

“When I was growing up, I was nervous as hell walking through North Minneapolis, because who knows?” he said. He said violence alters the mentality of some young people, particularly kids who expect to die young. “They get that mentality, where like, ‘F*** it, I ain’t afraid to die. So I’m gonna carry a gun. And I’m not gonna fight you, I’m gonna kill you.’ And you get to that mentality after you see your friends get killed, after your cousins get killed, after your brothers get killed. There’s no more fighting. There’s just gunplay,” he said. McDaniel’s brother Anthony Titus was killed at age 16 in the summer of 2010. “My brother was just walking down the street, going to a graduation party and shots let off and he was the one hit,” he said. Titus was never part of a violent lifestyle, he said. “My brother wasn’t in a gang. He was a hockey player, a babysitter, a little brother, Prince Charming to most of the ladies. He was just a cool dude,” he said. “I was the one in the gangs and sh** — like I wasn’t really gangbanging but I was into getting money.” McDaniel said it’s hard to see Facebook posts calling for the shooter to be freed. “I always felt like over [in] North, when people get killed, I ain’t gonna lie, they really don’t be finding the murderers. It’s a lot of murderers who still out in North Minneapolis walking around, living life. Everybody in the hood know, dude ass killed so-and-so. Don’t be smooth around him.” When McDaniel thinks about what might stop the violence, he concludes there would have to be no more guns. No one simply fights anymore, he said. “When I was growing up, like that’s what it was. I liked to fight. Everybody knew how to fight. If you got beat up, you got beat up,” he said.

And you get to that mentality after you see your friends get killed, after your cousins get killed, after your brothers get killed. There’s no more fighting. There’s just gunplay. — Jessie McDaniel, North Minneapolis

But deadly retaliation for violence is the new norm, he said. “Once blood spills, it’s hard to clean blood off the ground, it’s hard to forget that, so it’s like an ongoing thing,” he said. “Now it’s generational, it’s inherited.” If someone is killed, he explained, his friends would retaliate in another murder, and the killings would continue back and forth. He said that in some communities, shooters have clout. “You killing this man because he came up on you and stepped on your shoes, you’re gonna kill him? He’s gonna kill this man over a jersey? I don’t know how it got to that, but I think it’s over a title of being a real … gangster, being real, being hard, being tough,” he said. “That’s like their passage of becoming a man is killing somebody, and going to jail for it, and not telling on anybody. Becoming a man is spending the rest of your life in jail.” McDaniel said he receives applause for his achievements — he works at community gardens and helps run cooking classes as part of the nonprofit Appetite For Change. But if he was in a gang and on the

news, everybody would be talking about it, he said. “Negative energy brings a bigger crowd,” he said. “If the news was always posting positive sh** people wouldn’t watch it.” He visited the Black Lives Matter protest last fall at the 4th Precinct. He expected to see lots of youth there, similar to the high school and college students who protested during the Civil Rights Movement. That’s not what he found. “It was a whole bunch of old people,” he said. “As they [were] protesting about Black Lives Matter, a black dude got killed. A few blocks up the street, got murdered.” McDaniel still feels nervous occasionally in North Minneapolis. But his work at Appetite For Change helps him focus. He said eating healthier gives him a healthier mentality, prompting him to visit the gym and live a different lifestyle. “I feel better with myself. Even when sometimes I be in f****ed up situations I just feel better about it, I feel more comfortable,” he said. “I feel happy.” Though Martin continues to recover from his own gunshot wounds, he said he feels safe now in Northeast. It’s quiet at night. He said having a son at age 25 helped him move on, because it forced him to take responsibility for his child. Now he’s interested in mentoring other young people. Martin said he isn’t afraid of guns. But if a group of teenagers is causing trouble on the bus, he leaves them alone. “I understand how young kids are thinking. I was thinking the same way,” he said. “You think you’re invincible, and you can’t get shot, you can’t get hurt.”

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A HOSPITAL STEPS IN TO STOP CYCLES OF VIOLENCE HCMC adopts a tested approach to shifting lives away from guns and knives

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com A brief, precious window into the lives of young victims of violence opens the moment they arrive in Hennepin County Medical Center’s emergency room. HCMC aims to seize on that critical moment when it launches the nation’s newest hospital-based violence intervention program this year. Similar programs at other hospitals have shown promising results, including lower rates of re-injury and reduced costs for emergency departments. The idea behind the intervention is simple: If they speak with the right person at the right time, young victims of violence might Dr. Carnell Cooper choose to pivot away from knives and guns and the risky decisions that got them hurt. They might be willing to accept some help. Ann Eilbracht, senior director of support services at HCMC, said the program grew out of a realization that just patching up those patients and putting them back out on the streets is “not enough.” “We help them recover, but then send them back out to that same dysfunctional lifestyle,” Eilbracht continued. “Chances are they may be back with another injury, and we’d rather help them find a better approach to life so that they don’t end up back in the emergency department with maybe a more serious wound.” The National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs counts more than 30 similar programs already up-and-running, including Oakland’s Caught in the Crossfire, a pioneering project that started in 1994. The programs are found mainly in big-city U.S. hospitals, but the model has been replicated in Canada, England and El Salvador. Linnea Ashley of the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs said the approach hinges on “that golden moment” in the hospital when victims feel vulnerable and open to change. Trained intervention specialists try to reach the patients before they pass that critical stage and begin to think about retaliation. “At that moment, people are pretty earnest and pretty raw about what’s going on and how someone might be able to help them,” Ashley, the network’s director, said. HCMC’s program would focus on patients

Ann Eilbracht is leading HCMC’s hospitalbased violence intervention program pilot. The hospital is attempting to replicate an approach to addressing youth violence that has worked for other big-city hospitals. Photo by Dylan Thomas

between 12 and 28 years old who arrive at the hospital with gunshot and stabbing wounds. The hospital sees about two to three of those patients in a typical week, Eilbracht estimated. The intervention specialists will be trained to connect those patients with the services they need to shift their lifestyles. “It could be safe housing, it could be a job, it could be finishing high school, it could be getting out of an abusive relationship, it could be help with legal matters,” Eilbracht said. “The services will be wrapped around the individual based on what they think they need.” She said the program would launch with two or three part-time intervention specialists on call during peak hours, like early on weekend mornings. “At some point, because we’ll have limited staff initially, we’ll probably do a warm handoff to either a government or a private social service agency that hopefully can help that individual continue to pursue that healthier and safer lifestyle,” Eilbracht said. City of Minneapolis Youth Intervention Coordinator Josh Peterson said the program has about $75,000 to get up-and-running this year, including $25,000 included Mayor Betsy Hodges’ 2016 city budget and a

$50,000 grant from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The grant through the department’s Office of Justice Programs was “intended as seed money to develop and pilot implementation,” Peterson said, adding that it’s not yet clear how much the HCMC program will cost. Planning for a local hospital-based violence intervention program goes back at least to the city’s original Blueprint for Action to Prevent Youth Violence, an initiative launched in 2007 by former Mayor R.T. Rybak. The Blueprint was drafted in response to a significant rise in violent crime in the city, an increase that was largely driven by young people and gang activity. Between 2003 and 2006, homicide was the leading cause of death of Minneapolis residents aged 15–24. The Blueprint proposed treating youth violence as a public health epidemic. The research underlying the approach showed violence begets violence; youth who were victims of violence were more likely to become perpetrators. There’s evidence those victims also are more likely to end up in the hospital again with another violent injury. At that point, they face an increased risk of dying from their wounds, said Dr. Carnell Cooper of the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Home to one of the busiest trauma centers in the country, the Baltimore hospital introduced a violence intervention program in 1998. Since then, rates of recidivism, or return visits, for violent injuries have “decreased dramatically,” Cooper said. Baltimore’s hospital-based violence intervention program operates on an annual budget of about $300,000. Although the hospital hasn’t analyzed the cost-effectiveness of its program, Cooper estimated threequarters of those patients were uninsured in the pre-Obamacare era, “so we’re eating most of the costs.” Cooper said the success of hospital-based violence intervention requires a change in attitude, not just in the minds of the patients who are victims of violence but in the hospital staff who treat them, too. “There’s too often a laissez-faire attitude that says you can’t do anything. That’s not true,” he said. “… We can impact them. We can save their lives.”

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AT A GLANCE: OBAMA’S RECENT EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUNS By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com More than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence across the country in the past decade, according to statistics from the White House. President Barack Obama said the violence has become so routine that the country has become numb to it. “Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns — 30,000,” the president said before outlining his executive actions aimed at preventing gun violence earlier this year. “Suicides. Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. Many have learned to live with a disability, or learned to live without the love of their life.” The president’s actions clarify federal law to ensure that anyone engaged in the business of selling firearms must get a

Gun violence in America ``More than 30,000: Number of gun deaths in America each year

``Over 20,000: Number of Americans who commit suicide with a firearm each year

``More than 4 million: Number of American victims of assaults, robberies and other crimes involving a gun in the last decade

``3: Number of days after which a gun dealer can sell a gun to an individual if a background check is not yet complete (Source: White House)

license and conduct background checks. There is no threshold number of firearms purchased or sold that triggers the licensure requirement, according to a White House fact sheet. Courts have upheld convictions for dealing without a license when as few as two guns were sold. Someone who engages in the business of selling firearms without the required license can face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The FBI is also overhauling the background check system to make it more efficient. Improvements include processing background checks 24 hours a day, seven days a week and improving the notification of local authorities when a person banned from owning guns tries to by one, according to a White House fact sheet. In 2015, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) received more than 22.2 million background check requests — an average of 63,000 a day. The president’s 2017 budget also includes funding for 200 new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearm (ATF) agents to help with better enforcement of gun laws. The Obama administration has also proposed $500 million in new spending to increase access to mental health care. The Social Security Administration has proposed including information in the background check system about beneficiaries who are banned from owning a firearm for mental health reasons. The president has also directed the Defense, Justice and Homeland Security departments to conduct or sponsor research into new gun safety technology that could help reduce the number of accidental discharges or unauthorized use of firearms and help trace lost or stolen guns. In a statement on its website, the Minnesota Gun Owners Lobby noted that

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what the president has proposed in terms of requiring people in the business of selling guns to get a license, is already the law and that other actions will likely have little impact on reducing gun violence. “At last, President Obama has unveiled his long-promised ‘I have a pen and a phone’ list of actions he wants to take, unilaterally, to single-handedly take on the straw man of ‘gun violence,’” the organization posted on its website. “What it turns out to be is a combination of sternly-worded memos, budget proposals Congress will ignore, restatements of existing law, and a few proposed rules likely to face considerable opposition.” Meanwhile, Protect Minnesota, an organization focused on ending gun violence, commended the president for his actions.

“The president is carrying out his Constitutional duty to enforce existing gun laws for the safety of our communities,” said Heather Martens, executive director of Protect Minnesota. “This is a positive step. Anybody against this is against basic responsibility when dealing with firearms.” As for the action requiring all people engaged in the business of selling firearms get a federal license, she said that the clarification of the law is an important step. “This might seem like a no-brainer. But if you go to a gun show, you will find glaring inconsistency in the enforcement of background checks,” she said. “Federally licensed dealers have to conduct background checks on buyers. So-called ‘private sellers’ don’t. Even if you see them at gun shows, week after week, selling firearms. It’s about time we stopped that charade.” She noted that law enforcement shut down a trafficking operation in Minnesota that was buying guns from “private sellers” and supplying them to gangs in the Twin Cities. “Wherever there’s a loophole to make it easy to avoid a background check, someone exploits it,” she said.

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WHAT’S DRIVING THE VIOLENCE? By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com A shooting in the Warehouse District last fall continues to amaze law enforcement. Near the train platform at 5th & Hennepin on Sept. 12, an estimated 18 officers were patrolling the area. Bar closing time was winding down, and the streets were filled with at least 50 people. “Somebody still pulled out a pistol and started firing,” said Deputy Police Chief Bruce Folkens. The shooting — the result of a “prior beef,” police said — wounded six people. Police, the Hennepin County Attorney’s office and local leaders point to several deep-rooted factors driving gun violence in Minneapolis. Poverty plays a role, according to VJ Smith of MAD DADS. When some young sons of single parents want the best tennis shoes or clothes, he said they take action. “They do what they have to do since they don’t have money,” he said. “They steal, they rob, they do what they have to do to get that.” MAD DADS (Men Against Destruction, Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder) works with youth coming out of probation. “Many of them have said they would like to stop using guns,” Smith said. But he said they feel trapped — they have so many enemies in North Minneapolis, they either risk being caught unprotected, or caught by police and convicted for carrying a gun. Gun ownership is “very prevalent,” Smith said, as young men involved with gangs or cliques carry guns to protect themselves. With guns priced at $50 and up, guns are easier to obtain than books for college, he said. Folkens said police seize about 700 guns a year, a number he said has remained fairly constant over time. “What the difference is, is the willingness of folks to use those firearms has gone up,” he said. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said that in reviewing complaints in the last few years, he’s noticed that guns are increas-

Risk factors linked to the likelihood of youth violence ``Prior victim or witness of violence; suicide attempt by friend or family member

``Alcohol and marijuana use

``High levels of emotional distress

``Perceived prejudice among fellow students

``Learning problems, repeated grade, skipped school

``An incarcerated parent

``Easy access to firearms

Youth are less likely to be involved in violence when they have ``A sense of spirituality

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``A positive sense of the future

``Parents who set high expectations

``A strong connection to parents and school, a place to discuss problems

``A feeling of safety in the neighborhood

(Source: 2008 Blueprint for Action: Preventing Youth Violence in Minneapolis)

ingly used to resolve disputes. “In days past, people who disagree might use fists and fight,” he said, adding that knives occasionally came into play as well. “Now almost universally you see the guns come out.” If a fight breaks out at a party, he said it’s not uncommon for people to come back and shoot. Folkens said social media also plays a role in aggravating disputes, leading to a “culture of disrespect.” “They say things they wouldn’t normally say to somebody’s face,” he said. The violence is attributable to more than gang activity, he said. Guns are playing a role in robberies and guns are increasingly part of “horrible conflict resolution skills.” “Gang violence has changed profoundly,” Freeman said. “It used to be fairly wellorganized.” Traditional gangs have broken into a multitude of small groups, he said, sometimes affiliated with a particular neighborhood. A single investigative unit now handles all

gun violence cases in order to piece together patterns of retaliatory gun violence. People are continually appearing in the system as both suspects and victims, he said, which allows investigators to put cases together. By analyzing shell casings, they’re discovering that a single gun can be involved in a number of different crimes, with a small percentage of the population driving the crime stats. “One person can create a multitude of cases,” he said. Freeman said he’s also noticed a disturbing increase in guns used in domestic violence incidents, with women increasingly pistol whipped or threatened with a gun. Domestic aggravated assaults have increased nearly 6 percent from the prior year. Folkens said police are partnering with other organizations to intervene in youth exposure to violence. The goal is that “violence isn’t normal to them, it should be abnormal to them,” Folkens said. “Violence is a learned behavior.” Research shows a strong association between a young person’s early exposure to

violence and the likelihood they will commit a violent act later in life. “When children are asked about the causes of youth violence, they cite violence in the home and bullying at school as the number one and number two causes,” stated a 2008 Minneapolis report on youth violence. The report listed other risk factors that increase the likelihood of violence, such as racism and oppression, unemployment, financial stress, substance abuse, easy access to firearms, gangs, an incarcerated parent and social isolation. Many in North Minneapolis are living in grief and trauma, according to Smith. Homicide was the leading cause of death for African Americans ages 15-24 in Hennepin County from 2004-2014, accounting for nearly half of deaths, according to data from the Minnesota Department of Health. “They’re so scared,” Smith said. “They’re seeing so much violence and homicide and killing. They’re living in danger constantly.” Researchers have also identified protective factors that decrease the likelihood youth will engage in violence. Factors include a sense of spirituality; a positive sense for the future; a higher grade point average; a feeling of safety in the neighborhood and strong connections to school, parents and family. MAD DADS is currently walking the streets to reach 500 families and connect them to whatever they might need, whether it’s a treatment program, therapy or job help. Smith said he wants to draw attention to kids that are doing exceptionally well. Even while surrounded by violence, some are still earning A grades and becoming leaders through groups like Black Lives Matter. “The difference is the family values they have and the support systems they have,” Smith said.

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Viewpoints / By Steve Cramer

BUILDING ON DOWNTOWN’S SUCCESSES

015 was a great year in Downtown Minneapolis. One in a string of great years. And there is so much more to come in 2016, and years ahead. We are humming as the engine of the city, and of the region. When downtown shines as a magnet for millennials fueling job expansion, business success and residential growth, as a host for events on the world stage, and as a location where investment in all sectors of our economy flows in, Minneapolis as a whole prospers. And the Twin Cities takes its place as one of the most prominent regions of the nation. Some of the work ahead to keep this momentum alive will be challenging. The blood, sweat and tears (and laughter, joy and fun) that accompany the work will be very worth it to keep our downtown extraordinary. It will also be necessary to keep downtown competitive and on the leading edge. Here are some key priorities. We need to push through to ultimate success on our major public realm projects. We’re aiming high with the Nicollet Mall re-do and Downtown East Commons Park. Peavey Plaza renovation, and a host of other ideas throughout downtown outlined in the Pathways to Places framework and by the Minneapolis Parks Foundation for our river-

front, aren’t far behind. We’re hitting some bumps along the way, but that’s inevitable. They will be resolved. As they say in baseball, when you are in majors you need to be able to hit the curveball when it’s thrown at you. I know we can. I know we will. We have some significant public policy matters to resolve, in partnership. Two in particular stand out to me at this moment. We’re at an especially critical time for the build-out of a multi-modal transit system with downtown at its center — $2 billion-plus investments in light rail line expansion, and innovative bus rapid transit plans are ready to go. We can make the big leap forward other competing regions have if, during this legislative session, a new, stable, reliable funding source for transit is approved as part of an overall transportation package that turns what is a looming liability for our region and state into a competitive asset. It’s important for the downtown Minneapolis business community to have a strong voice in this debate. At City Hall, conversations about how to meld the perspective and practices of business into any action officials may choose to take on parts of the Working Families Agenda, like mandatory sick leave, are on-going. We have much to be proud of with a very low unemployment rate and progressive employers in all parts of our

local economy. But there are also many people in our community to be uplifted. In the end the goal is to land on approaches that do more good than harm by enhancing economic opportunity as the key element that will give people better changes in life. We need to nail the Super Bowl and Final Four! I probably don’t need to say much more than that, although I do want to tip my hat to the amazing folks who are already working tirelessly to prepare for these events. They don’t just happen, and at times many people will be called upon to help starting this year. Let’s all join in so our downtown, our City, the Twin Cities and the State of MN shine like never before. We need to continue to maintain a safe downtown, at the center of a safe and just Minneapolis. Nothing is more important than having confidence in personal safety, whether at 7th and Nicollet or Penn and West Broadway. I’m proud that our downtown can point to an impressive array of community partnerships focused on prevention, diversion and positive engagement — as well as fair and effective enforcement when necessary — all

of which constitute our public safety strategy. It works. We have a safe downtown. But we can’t take that for granted or become complacent. There is much more to come with new initiatives because we can never take our eye off this ball. And we must understand that a safe downtown, and secure, prosperous City neighborhoods, are interwoven. These are key areas the Downtown Council we will be focusing on, along with continued work on all goals of the Intersections 2025 Plan. Plenty to do, and the more shoulders at the wheel the better! We have a shared vision for the future. We have the incredible talent throughout downtown to organize in order to tap professional expertise and personal passion for good ideas. And we have a demonstrated commitment to acting on that vision and those ideas to move the dial in a positive direction. I’m looking forward to a great year in 2016.

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A HISTORIC RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD The St. Anthony West neighborhood is one of the oldest in the city. It was established in 1849 as the Village of Saint Anthony Falls, which later merged with Minneapolis in the late 1950s. The neighborhood is home to beautiful parks along the riverfront, including BF Nelson Park and Boom Island. Boom

Island got its name for the booms that separated logs floating down the Mississippi to sawmills powered by the St. Anthony Falls. The land was later acquired by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board in 1982 from a construction company for $2.6 million, according to the Park Board’s website. Ted Wirth, grandson of former park super-

intendent Theodore Wirth, designed Boom Island Park to include a marina, picnic shelters, a playground and the its signature mini lighthouse. A former railroad bridge linking it to Nicollet Island was converted into a pedestrian and bicycle bridge. In 2011, the park went through a redesign to add new 35W landscaping and paths to make

stronger connections to the river. B.F. Nelson Park, which is adjacent to Boom Island, features the Pioneer Statue by John K. Daniels — a 23-foot granite statute commemorating the area’s early settlers.

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doors. [William] LeBlanc was the builder. He was an engineer who was involved in the building of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in some way. I had been a nurse with St. 52 Stephen’s Catholic Church and had been doing that for quite a few years. After my husband died in 2003, I kept it up and was able to do both for a little while. Now I’m retired.

What’s it like running a bed and breakfast just outside downtown Minneapolis? It’s been really busy lately because, I believe, we’re one of the last licensed bed and breakfasts in Minneapolis. When we started in 1998, I think there were about four bed and breakfasts in the city, and now I’m the only one that I know of. This neighborhood is so great for a bed and breakfast because it’s in walking distance to all these different restaurants. People come

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What spots do you refer your guests to in the area? I like Emily’s Lebanese Deli, Rachel’s, Kramarczuk’s, Gorkha Palace and Keegan’s Irish Pub. Guthrie. We get bikers and people who are really interested in the riverfront. We get people who come and go to the Guthrie for plays downtown. There are baseball games. You can walk to [Target Field] — I do.

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A JOURNAL COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING GREAT COMMUNITY CAUSES

Neighborhoods Organizing for Change

 Sondra Jones speaks in favor of a citywide earned sick time policy at the Minneapolis Urban League in January.

Neighborhoods Organizing for Change focuses on building power in communities of color

Leading a fight for racial equity One thing has become painfully clear: Minnesota, long known for its high quality of life, has some of the worst racial gaps in the country. The median household income in 2014 for black Minnesotans was $27,000 compared to $64,800 for white residents, according to the Minnesota State Demographic Center. Thirty-eight percent of black Minnesotans were in poverty in 2014 compared to 8 percent of whites. Location Study after study reveals the state’s significant racial disparities in income, education, health and other measures of living 1101 W. Broadway standards. Ave Despite the grim statistics, North Minneapolis-based Neighborhood Organizing for Change (NOC) — a key organization in the local fight for racial equality — had an incredible year in 2015. Contact After losing their building to a probable arson last April, they’ve more than doubled their full-time staff, moved into new 612-246-3132 offices on West Broadway and raised their profile and awareness about the challenges facing workers of color in the city. NOC is a grassroots, member-led movement building power in communities of color across the Twin Cities to tackle the Website state’s racial disparities from the ground up. mnnoc.org Brit Fry, a communications associate for the organization, said NOC will remain focused in 2016 on advancing a workers’ rights agenda by lobbying for paid sick time and fair scheduling policies, an end to wage theft and a $15 minimum wage. Year Founded Several NOC members attended a Jan. 25 listening session at the Minneapolis Urban League to show support for a proposed 2010 mandatory paid sick time ordinance in Minneapolis. About 40 percent of the city’s workers lack access to paid sick days and they’re disproportionately low income workers of color. Sondra Jones, a NOC member, spoke at the listening session. She’s become increasingly active with the group in recent months. Jones, 25, entered the foster care system at the age of 2 and has lived in 23 different homes. “I finally feel like I have a home,” she said of NOC. She has been involved in the organization’s push for a fair scheduling ordinance, which would require employers to give workers advance notice of their schedules. She worked for two summers as a temp worker at Target Field and said she experienced the frustration of erratic scheduling. “We could be called as little as two hours before we needed to report for an unscheduled shift and, if we couldn’t make it a couple of times — that was grounds for being fired,” she said. “I started going to the worker demonstrations.” Last fall she bumped into NOC organizer Chase Elliot, a former classmate from Henry High School. He invited her to the NOC office to talk about her protest experiences at Target Field. “Right away the staff welcomed me, embraced me, just like they do everybody. First by volunteering, and then by working part-time at NOC, I’ve developed a sense of personal power that I’ve never felt before,” she said. “At NOC, we do everything from really tough community organizing to helping old people shovel their snow when it gets too deep. We stand for building the community up one person at a time, and doing whatever it takes to accomplish that.”

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What you can do Become a dues-paying member and come to monthly meetings. Everyone is welcome to participate in the community-building work of NOC. For upcoming meeting times, go to mnnoc.org. Host a house party for NOC to raise awareness and money for the organization. More details at mnnoc.org/houseparty. Follow NOC on social media to stay abreast of their work in the community and get alerts about upcoming events. (Facebook.com/MNNOC and on Twitter @mnnoc)

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Margie O’Loughlin is the writer and photographer for the project.

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CURRENT LOCATION When: Through Feb. 28 Where: Waiting Room, 1629 Hennepin Ave., Suite 300F Info: waitingroomart.org, 643-1171

Prints in Jessica Henderson’s “Wayfinding” series blur the scenery in Google Street View. Submitted image

“Current Location,” the title of the sixartist group show now up at Waiting Room, might turn visitors’ thoughts to the smart phones they carry into the gallery in their purses and pockets. Our “current location,” the Google Maps app reassures us, is a blue dot on a glowing screen. The blue dot represents a technologically aided shift in our perception of space; instead of finding our location on a map, the map conforms to our location. The artwork of “Current Location,” co-curated by Mary Coyne and Jehra Patrick, recalibrates our senses to the three dimensions of physical space by playing with scale and distance. And it often pushes into a fourth dimension: time.

The showstopper is a deceptively simple video installation by New York artist David Horvitz, a 12-minute loop that plays over two iPhones mounted on a gallery wall. One video, captured by Horvitz from a beach in California, shows the sun setting over the

Videos of the sun rising and setting shot simultaneously on opposite sides of the globe by New York artist David Horvit. Submitted photo Pacific Ocean; the other, shot simultaneously by his mother while on vacation in the Maldives, shows the sun rising over the Indian Ocean. Two people, on nearly opposite sides of the globe, turn the ordinary spectacle of the earth’s rotation into something extraordinary. Space and time fold up like origami. Duluth artist Kristina Estell gathered up jagged stones of North Shore granite from around her house, boxed them in small cubes made of drywall panels and sent the packages on round trips, via international mail, to points around the globe. The packages returned unopened to Duluth, where Estell disassembled the six-panel boxes into the cruciform figures that now hang from the wall in Waiting Room gallery. The drywall is punctured and pocked, a record of the weeks-long journeys the boxes went on with through the global postal system. The rocks they once contained are displayed on the floor below, tiny monuments to the eons-crossing expanse of geologic time. The rocks, and the scale of time they represent, crush the boxes, both literally and metaphorically. Isa Newby Gagarin’s “Mirfak” series is named for the Perseus constellation’s brightest star, which, even at a distance of about 600 light years, outshines many stars closer to earth. Gagarin’s crayon and acrylic on paper works are based on the images produced by spectrographs, a tool used to analyze starlight for information about a star’s distance and composition. She turns them into prismatic abstractions of spindly, color-shifting lines against a black background. For a separate series of works on paper, Gagarin, who lives in Minneapolis, started with stock photos of rainbows from Hennepin County Library’s picture files (a service made nearly obsolete by Google Images and other online resources). Transferred to transparencies, the black-and-white images become an arcing shadow; Gagarin

then places these over paper covered in washes of acrylic in primary colors. Chicago-based artist Joseph G. Cruz presents a large-format color photo and a book, both the products of his intense study of a former mine in Germany used during World War II by the Nazis for the development and testing of V-2 rockets. Cruz impresses with his efforts, but the project seems too dense to dig into during a brief gallery visit. Coyne and Patrick said the Cruz’s project fit the theme of the show because it explores how an early ballistic missile, which had the longest range of any rocket developed up to that point, changed our perception of space and distance. Knowing that the V-2’s chief developer, German scientist Wernher von Braun, would later come to the U.S. and help develop the early space program only deepens the metaphor. Kathryn Miller tells an oblique personal story through a collection of three maps. Coyne and Patrick said the Minnesota Geological Survey quadrangles show a bird’s eye view of locations within the state important to Miller, including the area around tiny Ada, located just north of Fargo-Moorhead; the physically isolated territory of the Northwest Angle; and Tulaby Lake on the White Earth Reservation. Those maps are specific and utilitarian. “Wayfinding,” a series of digital prints by St. Paul artist Jessica Henderson, uses a modern place-finding technology to turn the landscape into one undifferentiated blur. In the prints, heavily pixelated images of roadways and horizons are overlaid with the crisp arrows and lines of Google Street View. The Street View technology often inspires first-person journeys through both familiar and foreign locales, but Henderson transforms that idle, desktop exploration into something dreamlike and suggestive, an open-ended story.

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The Robo Show Light Grey Art Lab takes it back to the ’80s and ’90s with its latest exhibition, the “Robo Show.” Each participating artist was asked to create their own signature robotic mecha (giant robot) inspired by the cartoons and anime from classic TV. With more than 70 pieces, the show draws from artists with diverse backgrounds, from videogame series like “Halo” and animation studios like Laika, Disney and DreamWorks. The gallery is hosting an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 12 from 7-10 p.m. Where: Light Grey Art Lab, 118 E. Lake St. When: Feb. 12 through March 25 Cost: Free Info: lightgreyartlab.com

Betty’s Best in Show Betty Danger’s Country Club is putting its own twist on the Westminster Kennel Club’s 140th Annual Dog Show with a dog show of its own. The Northeast Minneapolis restaurant and bar, famous for The Danger — its rotating dining experience — invites patrons to dress to the nines in their finest clashing tartan plaids and dog handler attire. Instead of showing off their own canine companions, they can show off their favorite stuffed animal dogs in a competition to win a trophy and have their photo on display. For those not competing, there will be plenty of dog-themed drinks. Where: Betty Danger’s Country Club, 2501 Marshall St. NE When: Tuesday, Feb. 16 from 6-10 p.m. Cost: Free Info: bettydangers.com

I AM Kindness I AM Kindness is an art show unlike any other. The art, all original and produced by local artists, is for sale, but money has no value at the event. Rather, by bidding on a piece of art, patrons pledge acts of kindness chosen by the artists. The free show, founded by Sarah Edwards of I AM MPLS!, is a rare opportunity to get original art and, most importantly, spread positive energy. There will be a free/open bar sponsored by Le Meridien Chambers Hotel, a coffee cart from Spyhouse Coffee Roasters and an after-party in the rooftop space by Fulton beer. Where: Burnet Gallery, 901 Hennepin Ave. / When: Saturday, Feb. 27 from 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free / Info: iamkindnessgallery.com

The Story of Crow Boy In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s latest, “The Story of Crow Boy,” explores the life story of Taro Yashima and his 1956 children’s book, “Crow Boy.” The work, which is three years in the making, tells the story of an ostracized and misunderstood young boy who comes to find his own brave voice. The production draws from Yashima’s haunting, graphic autobiographies detailing his experience wrestling with human brutality, racial discrimination and the ravages of World War II. Where: In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, 1500 E. Lake St. / When: Feb. 18 through Feb. 28 Cost: $15-22 / Info: hobt.org

We Can Be Heroes Former members of Prince bands and musicians from The Suburbs, Soul Asylum and more are coming together to pay homage to the late David Bowie. The show, “We Can Be Heroes: The Bowie Tribute,” promises a circus-like atmosphere of art, fashion and androgyny with large-scale artwork created by local Jeremi Hanson. The 21-plus event features Michael Bland (Prince, Soul Asylum), Brian Gallagher, (Prince, Greazy Meal), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Phil Solem (The Rembrandts) and many more musicians who were inspired by Bowie. Where: Parkway Theater, 4818 Chicago Ave. S. When: Friday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $35 Info: theparkwaytheater.com

Coloring Club MPLS With adult coloring books on the rise, it was only a matter of time until someone combined it with beer. City In a Jar is hosting a monthly coloring club, #coloringclubMPLS. A $5 admission will get you a custom coloring page, coloring materials and beer specials from Eastlake Craft Brewery. Break out the crayons and get your creativity on, beer in hand. Where: Eastlake Craft Brewery, 920 E. Lake St. When: Thursday, Feb. 25 from 6-8 p.m. Cost: $5 Info: jessicaleitch.com

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University St Thomas Mpls

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