Four protesters who staged a sit-in at the Target store in Dinkytown during the height of Operation Metro Surge were arraigned on trespassing charges on Friday, March 27.
“Our community was horrified. Families were shaken. Workers felt unsafe. Target said nothing,” Jerry Halsten, one of the protesters charged, said during a news conference Friday afternoon at the Hennepin County Government Center an hour before their arraignment. Halsten is charged along with Aaron Shine, Stephanie Wells and Terri Grina for trespassing on the Target store premises.
On Feb. 11, a group of about 25 protestors picketed outside the store before staging a sit-in at the entrance. They were stopped by Minneapolis police and then escorted off the property…