🌱 Bonus Checks Possible For Frontline Workers + Spiller Sentencing

It's Friday! Thanks for reading today's Minneapolis Daily.

First, today's weather: Milder; breezy in the p.m. High: 62 Low: 52.

Here are the top 3 stories today in Minneapolis:

1. Demetrius Wynne was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in prison for the murder of his neighbor, Susan Spiller. Prosecutors said Wynne broke into Spiller's home and stabbed her to death in 2015, when he was 14 years old. (KARE11)

2. More details are emerging from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. The report shows police created fake social media accounts to follow Black people, and consistently used “racist, misogynistic, and disrespectful language.” Mayor Jacob Frey called to “shift the culture in our police department.” (Patch)

3. Minnesota legislators said Thursday they’ve reached a “tentative deal” to offer bonuses to the state’s frontline workers. According to CBS Minneapolis, $750 relief checks would potentially go to about 667,000 workers. (CBS)

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Today in Minneapolis:

• Art in Bloom returns to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. (10:15 a.m.)
• “Everything Everywhere All at Once” opens at Riverview Theater. (2 p.m.)
• The Timberwolves fight to stay in the play-offs tonight at Target Center. (8 p.m.)
• Beast in Black performs at Fine Line. (8:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The Twin Cities are at an “elevated risk” for severe weather this summer, according to Accuweather. (Patch)
• H.E.R. will make her “overdue Minneapolis debut” tonight at the Armory. (Paid source: Star Tribune)
• Wrecktangle Lyn-Lake and Boludo made the Star Tribune’s list of “6 new pizza places in the Twin Cities area (and beyond) you need to know about.” (Paid source: Star Tribune)

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— Georgi Presecky

About me: Georgi is a Chicago-based newsletter writer and partner content curator. She spent five years on the entertainment beat for FF2 Media covering film festivals across the U.S. Her feature articles have been recognized with awards from the Illinois Women's Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. As editor-in-chief of the Lewis University newspaper, she and her staff earned honors from the Associated Collegiate Press and American Scholastic Press Associations. She began working for Patch in 2019.

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