ST. PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz put the National Guard on alert in response to protesters who have shut down Lake Street in Minneapolis after a fatal officer-involved shooting in a parking ramp. About 100 members of the 257th Military Police Company went on stand-by, although not at the scene, to support police if civil unrest intensifies. Earlier in the week, heavily armed Minneapolis officers cleared away the barricades to reopen the busy roadway. Protesters restored their barricades the next night and every night since. The site is where a woman was killed when a speeding vehicle smashed into a car parked that served as a protestors’ barricade. The driver was arrested at the scene.
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Trash bin fires. llluminating Uptown protests for more than a week.