Minnesota is an open carry state, but the law and the reality for Black men are in conflict

Just because you can doesn’t mean you can everywhere, or that you should. On the evening of Jan. 25 a young Black man in a Walmart in Vadnais Heights was urgently approached by several Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies, handcuffed and detained. Oh, yeah, forgot to mention, he had a gun. And that was the reason for his detention … and the “aggressive” response by the officers. Much of the incident was captured on live video by independent journalist King Demetrius Pendleton, who happened to be shopping in the store at the time and posted the video on Facebook.

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