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TO P N EWS M I N N E S OTA B U S I N E S S
9,073,400cases worldwide
471,400 deaths worldwide
2,291,735cases in the U.S.
119,985deaths in the U.S.
33,227 cases in Minn.
1,384deaths in Minn.
Lynx coaches step in: With WNBA rosters capped, teams get creative to fill out their practice schedules. C1
Trump suspends foreign work visas: It’s a blow to many tech employers. A3
Dems link voter limits to racism: Foes of mail-in ballots push back. A3
Fighting for her life: Lone survivor of a wrong-way crash on I-35W in coma. B1
Lewis opposes defunding police: Senate candidate blasts radical reforms. B3
State to pay for training: Job lost to pandemic? Free online courses offered. D1
Hotel slump costs state: Tax revenue plummets as occupancy stays light. D1
Numbers as of 10:30 p.m. Monday • Sources: Johns Hopkins University (worldwide), New York Times (U.S.), Minnesota Department of Health (Minnesota)
STAR TRIBUNE Minneapolis, St. Paul MNVolume XXXIX • No. 80June 23, 2020
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Two Minneapolis police officers answered a 911 call about a stabbing on East Lake Street on May 27 and found a chaotic scene as arson, looting and protests raged in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
A black man lay on the sidewalk in front of the Cadillac Pawnshop with a gunshot wound to the torso. He was not breathing. A crowd of noisy protesters gathered around, some of them shooting videos with their phones and spec-ulating about what had taken place. While one officer knelt beside the man and performed CPR, the second officer waved off protesters . Soon, more officers arrived as the crowd swelled.
Medical personnel grabbed Calvin “Chuck” Horton Jr., 43, by the arms and legs and loaded him into an ambulance that rushed him to HCMC, where he was declared dead at 9:37 p.m.
Horton’s death was the only fatality during the protests and civil unrest that swept through Minneapolis in the aftermath of the May 25 killing of Floyd by police. Three weeks later, very little is known about what actually took place at the pawnshop and whether anyone will be charged with killing Horton.
John Rieple, 59, the owner of Cadillac Pawn at 1538 E.
A KILLING AMID THE RIOTS
Mae Roberts said a final farewell to son Calvin Horton Jr. after his funeral Friday at north Minneapolis’ Estes Funeral Chapel.
By ROCHELLE OLSON [email protected]
Jennifer DeCubellis had been CEO of Hennepin Health-care, the sprawling system that operates the county’s flagship trauma hospital and clinics, for two weeks when COVID-19 upended her transition plans.
Then on Memorial Day, George Floyd arrived at HCMC’s stabilization room, the stop for patients who need
the fastest lifesaving measures available.
Then came the riots, bringing nervous nights as DeCubellis and staff girded for an influx of trauma patients and worried about smoke from fires throughout the city infiltrating the down-town Minneapolis hospital, where patients on ventilators fought for their lives.
“As tired as folks are, as
Tough start for new HCMC chiefBy RACHEL WEINER and ARIANA EUNJUNG CHAWashington Post
For Lauri Jones, the trou-ble began in early May. The director of a small public health department in west-ern Washington state was working with a family under quarantine because of coro-navirus exposure. When she heard one family member had been out in the community,
Jones decided to check in.The routine phone call
launched a nightmare.“Someone posted on
social media that we had vio-lated their civil liberties and named me by name,” Jones recalled. “They said, ‘Let’s post her address ... Let’s start shooting.’ ”
People from across the country began calling her personal phone with similar threats.
“We’ve been doing the same thing in public health on a daily basis forever. But we are now the villains,” said Jones, 64, who called the police and set up surveillance cameras at her home.
Public health workers, already underfunded and understaffed, are confront-ing waves of protest at their homes and offices in addition to pressure from politicians
Public health workers face vitriol
By PAUL WALSH [email protected]
The shock of a mass shoot-ing in Uptown that left one man dead and 11 other peo-ple wounded had barely sub-sided Monday when multiple shootings elsewhere in the city swelled the number of casualties.
On Monday, the day three separate afternoon shoot-ings on the North Side left nine people injured, Mayor Jacob Frey announced details behind a multiagency effort to quell the bloodshed that has persisted over the past several weeks.
Joining the Minneapolis Police Department will be vir-tually every law enforcement agency within reach: the Hen-nepin County Sheriff’s Office, Metro Transit police, and federal authorities from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and the Secret Service, according to the mayor.
“The violence and lawless-ness that we’ve seen the last few days is not acceptable in any form,” Frey said. “Residents, businesses and all that choose to be in Minneapolis for any reason deserve to feel safe.”
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo declined to reveal how the other agencies will interact with his department, but he said it would include being a visible presence as well as providing intelli-gence.
Arradondo, the city’s first black police chief, made a point to remind the public that many of the gunshot victims “are members of the African-American commu-nity … young men. Their lives are not disposable. This can-not become our new normal.”
More violence leads to more policing in Mpls.
By JEREMY OLSON [email protected]
A surge in COVID-19 cases following the mass pro-tests and riots over the May 25 police killing of George Floyd has not yet material-ized, despite aggressive test-ing over the past two weeks of people involved in the dem-onstrations that roiled the Twin Cities.
The Minnesota Depart-
ment of Health on Monday reported four more deaths and 308 more lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19, an infec-tious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. That is the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths reported in one day in the pan-demic since April 13.
Only 1.5% of tests at four community sites last week of people involved in demonstra-tions turned up positive for the presence of the virus, suggest-
ing that all of the shouting and crowding didn’t result in wide-spread transmission.
“That is a relief,” said Kris Ehresmann, state infectious disease director.
State officials warned that the positive trends could be upset, though, if Minnesotans stop complying with recom-mendations to wear masks in public and practice social distancing. Arizona and other
Post-protest virus surge not seen By JEREMY OLSON [email protected]
University of Minnesota researchers conducted one of the world’s largest obser-vational studies of COVID-19 patients and found that dia-betes and obesity increased death risks, but that a com-mon diabetes drug protects women.
Metformin reduced COVID-19 death risks by
21 to 24% in women with COVID-19 who were already taking it to manage their blood-sugar levels and their diabetes, according to the U study results, which were posted online this weekend in advance of publication in a medical journal.
The amount of protective benefit was surprising, even though four smaller studies had found some evidence that metformin helped patients
recover from COVID-19, said Dr. Christopher Tignanelli, a lead author of the study and a critical care physician.
The gender difference in results is a biological clue to understanding the corona-virus and how to disrupt it, he added. “If we can under-stand the difference between men and women that really drove this ... that gives us a key treatment avenue that we can
U study finds new drug treatments
Story by RANDY FURST and GREG STANLEY • Photo by ELIZABETH FLORES • Star Tribune staff
Drop in case numbers a hopeful sign
“The passion that drives people here
is incredible.”Jennifer DeCubellis, CEO of
Hennepin Healthcare
Weeks after Calvin Horton Jr. was shot, his family has few answers
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The man who died in the Uptown shooting was Cody Pollard, shown with his wife, Quinesha Adams, and their daughter.
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