Organizers of an Earth Day Drive-in rally encouraged participants to strap a canoe or kayak on the roof of their vehicles, make signs and of course, engage in social distancing while encouraging politicians to further protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Sunday that the state's attorney general — and not the county prosecutor — will take the lead in any prosecutions related to the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs when a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck as he pleaded that he couldn't breathe.
