{"id":11209,"date":"2023-03-01T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2024-02-06T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:55:46","slug":"toronto-star-cites-professor-michael-lansing-in-after-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/01\/toronto-star-cites-professor-michael-lansing-in-after-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star Cites Professor Michael Lansing in &#8220;After George Floyd&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11210 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-01-at-3.56.01-PM-300x44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-01-at-3.56.01-PM-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-01-at-3.56.01-PM.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Professor Michael Lansing was recently quoted by the Toronto Star in a major exploration of the dynamics around policing and public safety in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd. Lansing and University of St. Thomas historian Yohuru Williams are the co-founders of <a id=\"site-title\" style=\"background-color: white;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overpolicedmsp.org\/\" data-animation-role=\"header-element\">Overpoliced &amp; Underprotected in MSP,<\/a> a public history project that explores the history of policing in the Twin Cities in order to contribute to community conversations about the future of public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Lansing&#8217;s comments contextualize the failed public safety ballot measure in Minneapolis in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neighbourhoods that voted most strongly against the measure were in the city\u2019s southwest \u2014 a white, upper-middle-class area \u2014 followed, to a lesser extent, by those in the predominantly Black North Minneapolis,&#8221; wrote reporter Wendy Gillis. &#8220;It was a \u201cvery odd combination\u201d that was rare in American political history, said Michael Lansing, history professor at Augsburg University in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot just polarized, because that suggests two poles. Minneapolis in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the uprising became a place that was deeply fragmented,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/2023\/george-floyd-defund-police.html\">Read the full Toronto Star article: &#8220;After George Floyd&#8221; (February 24, 2023).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Michael Lansing was recently quoted by the Toronto Star in a major exploration of the dynamics around policing and public safety in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd. Lansing and University of St. Thomas historian Yohuru Williams are the co-founders of Overpoliced &amp; Underprotected in MSP, a public history project that explores the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11416,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions\/11416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}