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Activate your digital access at startribune.com/welcome Unlimited access for subscribers who get home delivery more than one day a week 88° 72° Muggy and stormy, a hot week ahead. A12 ¬ PULITZER FINALIST 2019 LOCAL NEWS THE CORONAVIRUS’ TOLL SPORTS TOP NEWS BUSINESS VARIETY 10,115,900 cases worldwide 501,000 deaths worldwide 2,525,928 cases in the U.S. 125,545 deaths in the U.S. 35,549 cases in Minn. 1,425 deaths in Minn. Back on track: Minnesota gymnasts and 2021 Olympic hope- fuls Suni Lee and Grace McCallum are training again. C1 Masks or no masks: Edina, other cities will meet to weigh their options. A7 Mississippi flag flap: State moves to remove rebel battle emblem. A2 Recession bright spot: IPS Solar is red hot in a cool economy. D1 ‘Buy black’ boost: Since Floyd’s death, many ethnic businesses booming. D1 A fix for face masks: Here’s how to make them bearable in summer. E1 Homegrown oasis: Send us your nominations for great gardens. E1 Numbers as of 10 p.m. Sunday • Sources: Johns Hopkins University (worldwide), New York Times (U.S.), Minnesota Department of Health (Minnesota) STAR TRIBUNE Minneapolis, St. Paul MN Volume XXXIX • No. 86 June 29, 2020 More of what matters to Minnesota. All day. Every day. ONLINE: startribune.com • TIPS: 612-673-4414 • COMMENTS: 612-673-4000 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Call 612-673-4343 or go to startribune.com/subscribe By ERIC SCHMITT and ADAM GOLDMAN New York Times WASHINGTON – U.S. intel- ligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghani- stan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to officials briefed on the matter. The crucial information that led the spies and com- mandos to focus on the boun- ties included the recovery of a large amount of American cash from a raid on a Taliban outpost that prompted suspi- cions. Interrogations of cap- tured militants and criminals played a central role in making the intelligence community confident in its assessment that the Russians had offered and paid bounties in 2019, another official has said. Armed with this informa- tion, military and intelligence officials have been reviewing U.S. and other coalition com- bat casualties since early last year to determine whether any were victims of the plot. Four Americans were killed in com- bat in early 2020, but the Tali- ban fighters have not attacked U.S. positions since a February agreement to end the long-run- ning war in Afghanistan. The details added to the picture of the classified intel- ligence assessment, which the New York Times reported Fri- day, has been under discussion inside the Trump administra- tion since at least March, and it emerged as the White House confronted a growing chorus of criticism Sunday over its apparent failure to authorize a response to Russia. Russia’s bounties on U.S. troops reportedly no secret to U.S. leaders By MARA KLECKER [email protected] Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Sun- day announced tighter rules for reviewing officers’ body cameras that they say will provide more transparency and accountability. They’re the latest moves the city is taking toward police reform amid calls for sweep- ing changes to law enforce- ment after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. On Sunday, Frey and Arra- dondo called the changes the “first of what will be a series of new public safety policy reforms.” The previous policy allowed officers to review body camera footage before writing an initial report about an incident involving use of force. The new rules require that report to be written first. Police said it’s designed to better capture officers’ per- ceptions at the time the offi- cer acted. The policy now aligns with rules for civilians, who are not allowed to review body camera footage before talk- ing with police. “In instances when an offi- cer faces charges and a poten- tial conviction, a clear under- standing of what the officer perceived is an essential fac- tor,” Frey said, adding that the change will help ensure that investigators, attorneys and jurors receive a transpar- ent account of how an officer remembers the incident. The policies also clarify time requirements for reports and provide more clarity to supervisors about immediate Minneapolis police get stricter rules for body cameras By JOE CARLSON [email protected] Imagine breathing through a face-hugging N95 mask for an entire eight-hour nursing shift on a hospital floor. Properly fitted, it clings tightly to the skin, protecting the wearer from breathing in pathogens such as the coro- navirus that causes COVID-19. But those filtered-out germs don’t just vanish — the novel coronavirus can live up to 72 hours on surfaces, masks included. Just touching the outside of a contaminated respirator is risky, and it’s con- sidered the biggest danger of reusing them. Yet three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and other clinicians are being forced to reuse hospital masks Health care workers still forced to reuse N95 masks By SHAWN DONNAN Bloomberg News A surge in the coronavirus that has seen record numbers of new U.S. cases in recent days is likely to continue for weeks after states moved too soon to reopen their econo- mies, two leading public health experts said Sunday. The warnings by Tom Frieden, director of the Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017, and Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, came as a new poll showed confidence in how the United States is deal- ing with COVID-19 has fallen. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Frieden said the virus continues to have the “upper hand,” even as he acknowledged Americans had become tired of the restric- tions needed to contain it. “We’re all sick and tired of staying home. But you know what? The virus is not tired of making us sick,” he said. “We are moving too fast,” Frieden said of states that remained eager to continue phased reopenings as cases continue to rise. “It’s like leaning into a left hook. You are going to get hit hard. And that’s what is happening.” U.S. coronavirus cases now exceed 2.5 million, with over 125,000 reported fatalities — in both cases the world’s highest. The country’s inabil- ity to control the spread of the virus seems likely to result in U.S. citizens being banned from traveling to Europe, for example, as air travel slowly resumes worldwide. Virus taking swift, perilous turn Ruhel Islam’s restaurant was destroyed. “Let my building burn,” he said. “Justice needs to be served.” He plans to rebuild. A liquor store was one of the first build- ings touched by the rage of a crowd that had watched a white police officer press his knee into George Floyd’s neck until he died. Looters hit Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits twice the first night of protests as Steve Krause, the owner, watched by surveillance camera from his home across town. Two nights later the store burned down. Flames flung the red marquee onto a pile of mangled metal in what used to be the basement. Krause plans to rebuild what is now a third- generation business, but “there are bigger issues in society,” he said from the sidewalk on E. Lake Street, a place still ringing with the echoes of Floyd’s death and the public’s furious response. He gestured at the hole in the ground that was his store. “If this is a sacrifice to accomplish a greater good, so be it,” Krause said. At the epicenter of the riots that happened a month ago, a reckoning is underway. Dozens of buildings burned within a quarter-mile of the corner of Lake and Minnehaha, and people there are wrestling with whether the eruption of lawlessness served a purpose. Starting the long journey to rebuild, they’re AT EPICENTER OF RIOTS, A PAINFUL RECKONING Story by ADAM BELZ • Photo by RICHARD TSONG-TAATARII • Star Tribune staff On Lake Street, there is grief, anger and hope for change Nonprofit’s funds dry up: COVID-19 forces closure of health care collaborative in Minnesota. A6 See RECKONING on A9 Ø See MASKS on A5 Ø See VIRUS on A6 Ø See POLICE on A9 Ø The Twin Cities Pride festival shared the day with racial injustice protests in Loring Park. Above, Richard Garfield wept. A7 At Pride, a call for justice See RUSSIA on A12 Ø Two U.S. experts warn some states reopened too soon MONDAY June 29, 2020
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Activate your digital access at startribune.com/welcomeUnlimited access for subscribers who get home delivery more than one day a week
88° 72°Muggy and stormy,
a hot week ahead. A12¬PULITZER FINALIST2019 LOCAL NEWS
T H E C O R O NAV I RU S’ TO L L
S P O RT S
TO P N EWS B U S I N E S S VA R I ET Y
10,115,900cases worldwide
501,000 deaths worldwide
2,525,928cases in the U.S.
125,545 deaths in the U.S.
35,549cases in Minn.
1,425 deaths in Minn.
Back on track: Minnesota gymnasts and 2021 Olympic hope-fuls Suni Lee and Grace McCallum are training again. C1
Masks or no masks: Edina, other cities will meet to weigh their options. A7
Mississippi flag flap: State moves to remove rebel battle emblem. A2
Recession bright spot: IPS Solar is red hot in a cool economy. D1
‘Buy black’ boost: Since Floyd’s death, many ethnic businesses booming. D1
A fix for face masks: Here’s how to make them bearable in summer. E1
Homegrown oasis: Send us your nominations for great gardens. E1
Numbers as of 10 p.m. Sunday • Sources: Johns Hopkins University (worldwide), New York Times (U.S.), Minnesota Department of Health (Minnesota)
STAR TRIBUNE Minneapolis, St. Paul MNVolume XXXIX • No. 86June 29, 2020
More of what matters to Minnesota. All day. Every day.
ONLINE: startribune.com • TIPS: 612-673-4414 • COMMENTS: 612-673-4000SUBSCRIPTIONS: Call 612-673-4343 or go to startribune.com/subscribe
By ERIC SCHMITT and ADAM GOLDMAN New York Times
WASHINGTON – U.S. intel-ligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghani-stan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected
Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The crucial information that led the spies and com-mandos to focus on the boun-ties included the recovery of a large amount of American
cash from a raid on a Taliban outpost that prompted suspi-cions. Interrogations of cap-tured militants and criminals played a central role in making the intelligence community confident in its assessment that the Russians had offered and paid bounties in 2019,
another official has said.Armed with this informa-
tion, military and intelligence officials have been reviewing U.S. and other coalition com-bat casualties since early last year to determine whether any were victims of the plot. Four Americans were killed in com-
bat in early 2020, but the Tali-ban fighters have not attacked U.S. positions since a February agreement to end the long-run-ning war in Afghanistan.
The details added to the picture of the classified intel-ligence assessment, which the New York Times reported Fri-
day, has been under discussion inside the Trump administra-tion since at least March, and it emerged as the White House confronted a growing chorus of criticism Sunday over its apparent failure to authorize a response to Russia.
Russia’s bounties on U.S. troops reportedly no secret to U.S. leaders
By MARA KLECKER [email protected]
M i n n e a p o l i s M ayo r Jacob Frey and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Sun-day announced tighter rules for reviewing officer s’ body cameras that they say will provide more transparency and accountability.
They’re the latest moves the city is taking toward police reform amid calls for sweep-ing changes to law enforce-ment after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25.
On Sunday, Frey and Arra-dondo called the changes the “first of what will be a series of new public safety policy reforms.”
The previous policy allowed officers to review body camera footage before writing an initial report about an incident involving use of
force. The new rules require that report to be written first.
Police said it’s designed to better capture officers’ per-ceptions at the time the offi-cer acted.
The policy now aligns with rules for civilians, who are not allowed to review body camera footage before talk-ing with police.
“In instances when an offi-cer faces charges and a poten-tial conviction, a clear under-standing of what the officer perceived is an essential fac-tor,” Frey said, adding that the change will help ensure that investigators, attorneys and jurors receive a transpar-ent account of how an officer remembers the incident.
The policies also clarify time requirements for reports and provide more clarity to supervisors about immediate
Minneapolis police get stricter rules for body cameras
By JOE CARLSON [email protected]
Imagine breathing through
a face-hugging N95 mask for an entire eight-hour nursing shift on a hospital floor.
Properly fitted, it clings tightly to the skin, protecting the wearer from breathing in pathogens such as the coro-navirus that causes COVID-19.
But those filtered-out germs
don’t just vanish — the novel coronavirus can live up to 72 hours on surfaces, masks included. Just touching the outside of a contaminated respirator is risky, and it’s con-sidered the biggest danger of reusing them.
Yet three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and other clinicians are being forced to reuse hospital masks
Health care workers still forced to reuse N95 masks By SHAWN DONNAN
Bloomberg News
A surge in the coronavirus that has seen record numbers of new U.S. cases in recent days is likely to continue for weeks after states moved too soon to reopen their econo-mies, two leading public health experts said Sunday.
The warnings by Tom Frieden, director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017, and Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, came as a new poll showed confidence in how the United States is deal-ing with COVID-19 has fallen.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Frieden said the virus continues to have the “upper hand,” even as he acknowledged Americans had
become tired of the restric-tions needed to contain it. “We’re all sick and tired of staying home. But you know what? The virus is not tired of making us sick,” he said.
“We are moving too fast,” Frieden said of states that remained eager to continue phased reopenings as cases continue to rise. “It’s like leaning into a left hook. You are going to get hit hard. And
that’s what is happening.”U.S. coronavirus cases now
exceed 2.5 million, with over 125,000 reported fatalities — in both cases the world’s highest. The country’s inabil-ity to control the spread of the virus seems likely to result in U.S. citizens being banned from traveling to Europe, for example, as air travel slowly resumes worldwide.
Virus taking swift, perilous turn
Ruhel Islam’s restaurant was destroyed. “Let my building burn,” he said. “Justice needs to be served.” He plans to rebuild.
A liquor store was one of the first build-ings touched by the rage of a crowd that had watched a white police officer press his knee into George Floyd’s neck until he died.
Looters hit Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits twice the first night of protests as Steve Krause, the owner, watched by surveillance camera from his home across town.
Two nights later the store burned down. Flames flung the red marquee onto a pile of mangled metal in what used to be the basement.
Krause plans to rebuild what is now a third-generation business, but “there are bigger issues in society,” he said from the sidewalk
on E. Lake Street, a place still ringing with the echoes of Floyd’s death and the public’s furious response. He gestured at the hole in the ground that was his store.
“If this is a sacrifice to accomplish a greater good, so be it,” Krause said.
At the epicenter of the riots that happened a month ago, a reckoning is underway. Dozens of buildings burned within a quarter-mile of the corner of Lake and Minnehaha, and people there are wrestling with whether the eruption of lawlessness served a purpose.
Starting the long journey to rebuild, they’re
AT EPICENTER OF RIOTS, A PAINFUL RECKONING
Story by ADAM BELZ • Photo by RICHARD TSONG-TAATARII • Star Tribune staff
On Lake Street, there is grief, anger and hope for
change
Nonprofit’s funds dry up: COVID-19 forces closure of health care collaborative in Minnesota. A6
See RECKONING on A9 Ø
See MASKS on A5 Ø
See VIRUS on A6 Ø
See POLICE on A9 Ø
The Twin Cities Pride festival shared the day with racial injustice protests in Loring Park. Above, Richard Garfield wept. A7
At Pride, a call for justice
See RUSSIA on A12 Ø
Two U.S. experts warn some states reopened too soon
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