I love Minneapolis. I always have. I love Minnesota. We live in a state nearby and Minnesota has been our partner for decades.

That Trump and those motherfuckers thought that they could attack that state and hurt all of those people and kidnap all of those people and brutalize all of those people and kill the people that they have….It is criminal and it is atrocious and it is immoral.

Yes, Minneapolis has a long, documented history of civil rights participation and activism spanning several decades

, characterized by a mix of early anti-discrimination efforts, civil rights activism in the 1950s/60s, and intense modern protests against police brutality. The city's history includes: 

• Early 20th Century:Minneapolis, along with St. Paul, established NAACP chapters around 1912-1920. Activists, including attorney Fredrick McGhee, fought for racial justice in the early 1900s.

• 1940s-1950s: Nellie Stone Johnson became the first African American elected to citywide office in 1945, and she was a key figure in creating the city's Fair Employment Practices Ordinance (F.E.P.O). The state passed a Fair Employment Practices Act in 1955.

• 1960s-1970s: The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in Minneapolis in 1968 to address native civil rights. Civil unrest occurred in North Minneapolis in 1967.

• Modern Era: The Twin Cities have been a sustained hub for activism, including the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police misconduct, culminating in the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd.