Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty MPD cops for security - Minnesota Reformer
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Small business owners — particularly immigrant owned — say they've been pressured by police to hire off-duty officers to provide security.
  • @lnsfw3English
    13•9 months ago

    To get a business license, a licensing employee told her she had to hire a certain number of off-duty Minneapolis police officers to provide security.

    Why?

    “Because they’re racist and we’re Mexican,” Santamaria said. “They didn’t want to let Mexicans have nightclubs.”