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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Minneapolis didn’t discipline police officer who called Black Lives Matter ‘terrorist organisation’

2020 Image Star Tribune / Carlos Gonzalez

The Minneapolis Police Department continues to employ an officer who called Black Lives Matter a terrorist group and which he told a community member he intended to “wipe off the face of the Earth,” just months after the MPD brutally murdered George Floyd.

In the fall of 2020, Jacqueline Bilek called the MPD to inquire about a man who was putting anti-Black Lives Matter fliers under windshields in her area, concerned that he might be dangerous because she’d heard he was suffering from mental health problems.

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