Community, city leaders talk public safety in engagement meeting [Video]

MINNEAPOLIS — A violent weekend in Minneapolis included two separate stabbings and what police described as a “chaotic shooting” at a downtown nightclub. It marked the second Minneapolis nightclub shooting in one month.

“Trauma,” Pastor Ian D. Bethel noted. “It is trauma.”

Bethel leads the Unity Community Mediation Team, an organization formed more than two decades ago to help transform public safety within Minneapolis. He said the city is in need of healing.

“It is beyond what the statistics are saying about crime and the use of drugs, etcetera, in our city. We have neglected for years our young and our youth, and now it’s coming back to us.”

The first of a series of community engagement meetings hosted by the City of Minneapolis took place Monday evening at the Midtown Global Market. The meeting is not a direct …