From Star Tribune: As police departments and school districts pull officers out of schools following Minnesota’s new law that prohibits student restraints, Republican lawmakers are calling for a special session to repeal the bill.
Rep. Brad Tabke told KSTP that the Southwest Light Rail budget deficit “could be in the neighborhood of $400 million.”
Two people were hospitalized after a train derailed in Kittson County near the U.S.-Canada border, KVVR reports. “A large amount of grain” was spilled when the train derailed but did not tip over.
Politico reports that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar following reports that AIPAC is backing potential candidates to challenge her in 2024.
Indigenous Minnesotans and Wisconsinites are responding to the call for help battling 4,900 wildfires across California, per MPR’s Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton.
Axios’ Torey Van Oot writes that animal shelters in Minneapolis are seeing an “extraordinary” 25% increase in pet owners surrendering their animals through the first seven months of 2022 and a 78% increase from 2021.
While the heat and dryness usually isn’t good for most crops, the weather has been helping wild rice beds across the state, KAXE reports.
No special session. Let the taxpayers watch first hand what will happen in the schools.
Andy…those are our kids and grandkids. We cannot leave them to predators. Things must be tried.
Weird that cops won’t work in schools unless they’re allowed to choke students. Or maybe not, since that’s also apparently why so many MPD officers left too.
I don’t think anyone is supporting the choking of students but there are instances where an out of control or violent student may need to be restrained for the safety of students , teachers or the individual themselves.
If people have an anti police bias and officers need to worry about being sued, prosecuted or injured then public schools will need to provide their own solutions for the problem.
The bad kids are being taught to resist law enforcement with any means neccessary.
The bad cops are being taught that certain types will always have their backs.
Earlier this year a kid got murdered in the hallway at Harding High School in St. Paul, and that didn’t move the needle for the anti-police crowd. They want cops out of schools. And with this rule, and the legal jeopardy it puts cops in, they have now accomplished that. The same folks are complaining about private and charter schools, but this kind of thing is going to drive even more kids out of public schools.