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April 15, 2021

In Minnesota, suburban mayor is thrust into policing debate

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and MOHAMED IBRAHIM
Associated Press

Mike Elliott is among many who celebrated his election as mayor of Brooklyn Center as the beginning of a new era, marking the first time one of Minnesota's most racially diverse places would be led by a person of color. Elliott, a Black man who had emigrated from Liberia as a child, was almost giddy in talking about his plans for multicultural city hall.

“It's incredible, it's really incredible,” Elliott said then of Hmong, African, Vietnamese and white residents living side-by-side in the inner-ring Minneapolis suburb's working-class neighborhoods. He called his 2018 election “an opportunity for the great diversity of the city to have a voice at the table.”


 
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