Good morning. A cool front sweeps across Minnesota Wednesday. Partly sunny. Highs from the mid-50s in the north to lower 70s for southeast Minnesota. More on Updraft
In addition to pushing back move-in day, the University instituted a strict, four-step process for students who live in dorms on the Twin Cities, Duluth and Rochester campuses. First, they’ll spend at least ten days living and learning almost exclusively inside the residence halls and are told not to visit other dorms, businesses or off-campus residences. For nearly a month, they’ll have a 9 p.m. curfew.
The U gave each student a one-hour time slot to move in. Miko Tapscott’s parents helped him move in, and splitting duties, with one arranging and the other helping to lug items upstairs.
“We reverse engineered everything at the house and just think about the timeline and worked out the logistics of it for the last week or so,” said Tapscott's parent David Lloyd.
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On Tuesday night, Minneapolis City County was set to hold a study session on police reform.
But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.
The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data. More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than were slain in all of last year. Property crimes, like burglaries and auto thefts, are also up. Incidents of arson have increased 55 percent over the total at this point in 2019.
Council President Lisa Bender, who was among those leading the call to overhaul the department, suggested that officers were being defiant. Her constituents say officers on the street have admitted that they’re purposely not arresting people who are committing crimes.
Minnesota’s daily COVID-19 numbers have recently shown moderate case growth, relatively stable hospitalizations and mostly single-digit deaths. (needs link) Officials, though, continue to warn that the level of ongoing community spread of the virus means more problems ahead.
New cases had been growing significantly for weeks and topped more than 6,000 two weeks ago, raising concerns that new cases surfacing now will create more severe health problems later.
Here are Minnesota’s current COVID-19 statistics:
- 1,927 deaths
- 85,351 positive cases, 78,953 off isolation
- 238 still hospitalized, 131 in ICU
- 1,733,292 tests, 1,247,867 people tested
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