‘It’s Terrible Right Now’: Uptown Dances in the Face of Multiple Shootings

Four shootings, all on weekends, over the course of a month, in the areas located on the perimeters of Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood. Two in the same area, one week between them; the other two a mere eight hours apart. All sent people to the hospital.

And notably, three of the four shootings occurred close to nightclubs hosting DJ parties, even if the shootings did not take place on those nightclubs’ grounds.

The uptick in gun violence is rattling even those who tend to be blasé about the occasional rough-and-tumble nature of the neighborhood. And among those affected are the dancers…

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