Sheriff Earle Brown, founder of the city where Daunte Wright was murdered, was a longtime member of the KKK
Not only was Earle Brown a sheriff, and the founder of the Minnesota State Patrol, he was a lifelong bigot and a literal Klansman.
This country has history. It has context. And if you simply scratch and sniff the surface of almost any period of American history, you’re bound to get a big whiff of racism and white supremacy. And that’s exactly what we see in the town where police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright this…
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