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Council Members Join Koski in Sharing Stories About Threats
Earlier this week, retiring Minneapolis City Council Member Emily Koski stated that stalking and “escalating harassment,” along with the failure of law enforcement to do much to intervene, had driven her from public life. Now, in the wake of that revelation, multiple council members are sharing that they too have been threatened, Susan Du reports at the Star Tribune.
In the story, Ward 9 Council Member Jason Chavez shares the racist, homophobic, and otherwise nasty verbal abuse he’s received, as well as the threats that led him to seek a restraining order.
“For the longest time before the restraining order, I had to look around before I would get into my car, look around before I would go into my apartment, look around before I was driving to make sure nobody was following me,” Chavez tells Du…