It’s going to be a hot and humid 4th of July this year with plenty of people out and about over a holiday weekend which includes big celebrations and the return of the Taste of Minnesota in downtown Minneapolis.
Hopefully that will not spell trouble for Minneapolis Police again this year. Already, Minneapolis Police are working to make sure what happened during the last couple of 4th of July holidays doesn’t happen again, with teenagers launching fireworks at officers near Dinkytown and in downtown Minneapolis, or violence in places like Boom Island Park.
“So, we’ll be staffed up all through the weekend, but the biggest thing I am concerned about is what has happened here since 2020 with really late at night on the 4th, overnight into the 5th with kind of these mobs popping up,” says Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara…