Hot Tubs of Minnesota and Iowa, a Minneapolis new and used hot tub dealer, promoted quality time for couples to improve their health and to build healthy relationships. They also published improved relationship tips.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) May 19, 2012
Hot Spring Spas of Minnesota participated in Couples Appreciation Month in April to stress the importance of mental, physical and relationship health for residents of the greater Minneapolis region.
“People lead busy lives these days. And whether they work from home, in an office or not at all, there’s always something to do and little time to do it. Often, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the stresses of life and forget to say thanks for the millions of selfless things our partner does for us every day,” said Dan Eppard the company’s General Manager. “Luckily, there are some simple things people can do to improve their relationships.” Here are just a few:
Acknowledge the “Little” Things – From getting that cup of coffee to picking up a favorite dinner to just letting them sleep in, these are the actions that make people’s lives easier, more convenient and hassle free. This month, take the time to stop and recognize your partner for making every day just a little brighter. People will be amazed at how far a little genuine appreciation goes. It doesn’t have to be a big production – in fact, just a simple kiss says it all.
Have a Real Conversation – How many times during the day do couples have a meaningful conversation with their significant other? And that doesn’t include an upcoming doctor’s appointment, what the realtor said or the guy at work, but a real discussion that was engaging and fun. Unfortunately, many of us talk all day long and never truly talk to the ones we love.
In honor of couples appreciation month, people should try having a genuine conversation with their partner- they should talk about what they enjoy doing together or how much they look forward to spending time together. Maybe plan an upcoming vacation or discuss an evening out on the town. Taking a few minutes each day to really talk to one another reminds them why they fell in love in the first place and is a terrific way to show gratitude and appreciation.
Re-Connect Over a Soak in the Hot Tub – Nothing sparks romance quite like a hot tub. Make time with a loved one to soak in the warm water and soothe the tension away. Total relaxation from head to toe, a hot tub is the perfect way to share an intimate moment and re-connect by sharing time talking, laughing and just enjoying each other’s company.
Plus, as an added benefit, use the hot tub just a few times a week and improve your health. It’s true. A dip can improve sleep, reduce tension, relieve aches and pains and even help control Type 2 diabetes.
“This month, we recommend that couples remember their loved ones for all the special things he or she brings to their life. Show gratitude and appreciation by acknowledging the little things that make your life easier every day. Take some time out of the day’s busy schedule to relax in the hot tub and have a conversation,” said Eppard.
“To help educate the public on how warm water hydrotherapy can help improve relationships and improve your health we will provide free hot tub test soaks in our 5 locations during the entire month,” commented Eppard. “We want to encourage local consumers to check out the benefits of a relaxing soak in an energy efficient hot tub for themselves.”
Consumers wanting to find the Hot Spring Spas location nearest them are encouraged to visit the company website for more information. The website address is http://www.HotSpringGreen.com.
About Hot Spring Spas of Minnesota and Iowa
HotSpring Spas of Minnesota and Iowa offer a large selection of new and used hot tubs and saunas for sale and a variety of hot tub, sauna, repairs, parts, and accessories. We are Minnesota’s and Iowa’s premier source for Hot Spring Spas and Hot Tubs, Saunatec and Finnleo Saunas, A B Backyard Accessories, and proudly carry the SilkBalance for Spas water treatment system. To learn more, pick up a copy of our free report “7 Critical Questions You Must Ask Before Your Buy a Hot Tub”. Just give us a call at 651-731-9745 or go to http://www.HotSpringGreen.com.
Dan Eppard
HotSpring Spas of Iowa and Minnesota
651 731 9745
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The city of Minneapolis is considering a change in the recycling arrangement: You won’t have to separate your stuff. Dump it all in a bin, and it gets sorted out downstream by robots or elves. (They’re still working on the details.) This may increase recycling, thus saving the planet. We all want a saved planet, if only for later. Where’s that planet? I knew I saved one somewhere. Oh, there it is.
Right now most people don’t recycle. Less than 20 percent recycle; 42 percent lie, because saying you don’t recycle is like saying you bathe in the blood of baby seals; 23 percent consider themselves recyclers if they donate used underwear to the Salvation Army, and the rest enjoy not recycling, going so far as to shout, “UP YOURS, GAIA” when they throw away a can.
The goal is 35 percent for Hennepin County — which still would leave 65 percent of households chucking perfectly good frozen-food trays, instead of putting them on the curb so the plastic can be used for that cheese sauce used in frozen foods. Why don’t they recycle? It’s a proven good. Those of us who recycle think a spokesperson would describe our efforts thus:
“Basically, recycling makes sense. There’s a tremendous after-market for newspapers. Not everything gets turned into tissues and bathroom tissue, or ‘euphemism squares’ — about 40 percent gets sent overseas to impoverished countries that lack comic sections, so people in distant villages can catch up on the hijinx of Hi and Lois and their wacky brood’s fractured take on family life.
“Cardboard is converted into greeting cards — just bleach and add some Snoopy, that’s our motto! Plastics are turned into super-absorbent Goodness Cubes that suck toxins out of the rainforest. Without people putting out their milk jugs every fortnight, over 75 percent of the Amazonian biosphere would die, including all those photogenic cute frogs. So keep it up! We’re depending on you.”
Perhaps the 65 percent who don’t recycle suspect that a spokesman would say something different if you slipped him truth serum:
“Oh, once no one’s looking, we burn it,” said a spokesman. “Except cans. We sell the cans and use the money for lottery tickets. Newspapers? Well, here’s the thing about paper. It grows on trees. Plastic can be reused for making park benches, which are then photographed for brochures to sell park benches made out of recycled plastic.
“Now, cardboard, or ‘hardpaper’ as we call it, that’s mostly unusable because 95 percent of it has pizza cheese, and it’s the stuff the dog can’t even chew off, so up the flue it goes. Mostly, though, we just make people feel better about consuming six tons of stuff a week.
“We considered adding another category next year: shoelaces. People could think they were saving cotton or something. You’d have to tie up the laces with hemp twine and boil off the plastic tips. It would make people feel self-conscious and anti-planet if they threw away their laces, but that seemed like an abuse of power. So that’s not gonna happen until 2014.”
The truth might be somewhere in-between. But at least those who are on the fence feel obliged to pretend. They recycle just a little. It’s like a token offering to a deity everyone else believes in, so why make waves.
Check their bins: One newspaper to indicate they’re engaged with the world, one wine bottle to suggest a civilized evening with moderate friends, a half-dozen carefully crushed Coke cans, a quart of milk. When I’m walking the dog and see this array I want to shout I’M NOT BUYING IT. Either they’re throwing away 48 beer bottles or melting down the glass in a backyard smelter.
Single-sort won’t be cheap. We’ll need new bins — the city’s report says they’re $65 a pop, which would cost almost $7 million for the pilot program. That much? My fancy city-supplied bin broke long ago, and I’ve made do with twelve-buck Target tubs for 10 years.
They’ll have to buy new trucks, too: eight trucks for the pilot program will cost almost $2 million. That’s almost $10 million to encourage people who can’t be bothered to sort right now.
It won’t be the end of it: The recycling goal for 2020 is 47 percent, which will be achieved by education and promotion, or a ruinous surcharge on your utility bill if you think it’s all hooey.
The bill, of course, will be printed on recycled paper.
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The fate of the proposed $975 million Vikings stadium now rests in the hands of the Minneapolis City Council.
The council voted 7-6 to approve an earlier stadium proposal in April. Council President Barb Johnson said she’s confident that the current proposal, which has passed the state Legislature and has received Gov. Mark Dayton’s signature, will be approved by council members. A council committee is expected to take up the issue May 24.
Johnson, who supports the stadium proposal, and Council Member Gary Schiff, who opposes it, discussed the issue with MPR’s Cathy Wurzer this week as part of Morning Edition’s One-on-One series. An edited transcript of that conversation is below.
Cathy Wurzer: Mayor Rybak said that this was a good deal before, but this new one is an even better deal. Are there any changes to the bill, Council Member Schiff, since you last voted that would influence your final vote?
Council Member Gary Schiff: The deal has just gotten worse since the initial deal was first rolled out, particularly for city taxpayers. More property has been taken off the tax rolls than was originally identified, and that totals half a million dollars a year of property taxes that’s going to become tax-exempt.
And over the 30-year lifetime of the deal, that’s $15 million that won’t go to schools, to the city, to the county and to the parks. And that was one of the things that was negotiated during the Senate and the House deliberations.
So when you have property taxes coming off the rolls, and you have a deal that is financed solely on sales taxes from the city of Minneapolis, you know, I think it’s a bad deal for the city taxpayers.
And it’s time that we stop treating downtown Minneapolis as an ATM for the region.
Wurzer: Council Member Johnson, what about the taking of property off of the property tax rolls, the $15 million?
Council President Barb Johnson: We’re talking right now about surface parking lots, really and truly, and also some public land. There’s some county land involved. And we anticipate that with this massive investment, we will see development occur around the stadium that will compensate for the tax revenue that’s lost off of those properties.
Wurzer: Madame President, the sales taxes that we’re talking about here would result in downtown Minneapolis being one of the most heavily taxed downtown areas in the country. Do you worry that extending the sales tax would give visitors a reason to maybe skip the restaurants and the bars in downtown?
Johnson: We’re not raising any taxes. The taxes will remain the same. They will just remain in place over the lifetime of the stadium. And it certainly hasn’t deterred folks up to this point. I think if you asked our police officers about the crowds in our downtown, they’d tell you our downtown is quite successful …
The downtown housing market is very vibrant. Thirty-three thousand people live in our downtown, and they choose to live down there because they like the activity that’s down there, the options that they have for entertainment. I am not worried about the continuing of our sales tax being a problem or an impediment to our downtown.
Schiff: Unfortunately, we should be embarrassed to have the highest sales tax of any downtown in the country. And when you look at vacancies on Hennepin Avenue, and you look at the businesses that have left Hennepin Avenue, you see the result of higher sales taxes because you can only sell a beer for so much. And when sales taxes are that high, and the owner has to swallow the cost, it’s the hospitality workers who suffer the most. They are laid off the first in any dip of the economy.
And don’t forget, with our convention industry, it is a big decision where conventions locate of how much taxes people will pay when they arrive. So these high sales taxes make us less competitive in the convention industry. We should be lowering those sales taxes to make downtown more competitive, to fill up the vacant storefronts on Lake Street, to make it more business-friendly. That is a plan for job growth, rather than putting $675 million into a building that’s only really going to be full eight to 10 times a year.
Johnson: Well, you know it’s interesting that we talk about hospitality jobs because those folks were one of the biggest proponents of this deal and helped us at the Legislature to secure the approval of the Legislature and the governor. People in the hospitality industry welcome this investment in our entertainment arena in our city, and so I really don’t worry about our convention center being less competitive. I think certainly if the Vikings left, our convention center would be way less competitive, and that’s what we’re trying to look at here is what’s the ongoing future of our community, and a new Vikings stadium will attract people.
Certainly, when Target Field opened, we had press all over the United States. People take tours of stadiums, and we will see those folks coming to our city. It’ll be an attraction.
Schiff: And yet, just three years after the Twins stadium opened, attendance is dropping, and the Twins have the worst record in the league. And the explanation the Twins gave at the time for a new stadium was that they needed to be more competitive, and we now see that that isn’t true. There was a short-term excitement with a new facility, and already the shine is starting to fade.
Wurzer: The city Charter Commission has declined to advise on whether this deal goes against the city’s charter because it bypasses a referendum. What happened there? Was there enough pressure exerted to not look at the issue, Council President?
Johnson: The Charter Commission felt that it wasn’t within their authority to issue an opinion.
Wurzer: Really?
Johnson: Yes. I think they’re correct. The Charter Commission is staffed by our city attorney’s office, and they have authority that is not in the policy arena, and so I’m not surprised that they declined to opine on whether it violated the charter or not. And the law certainly does not violate the charter. The state law always can trump the city’s charter.
Schiff: Well, and that’s what happened. There’s a section of the bill that says “city charter notwithstanding,” and it clearly overrides the city charter. And any time the state takes a dramatic action to deny citizens a right to vote on something is, in and of itself, a bill that I think the city should oppose.
Wurzer: The seven votes that have approved the original deal, are they solid, Council President?
Johnson: Well, I visited with all of my colleagues that are supportive of the stadium and, you know, I don’t see people wavering. I really don’t.
Schiff: And that’s unfortunate because there’s still much time before the final vote, and if people are listening to their constituents, all the polls show overwhelmingly 70 percent of Minneapolis residents oppose public financing of sports facilities.
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MINNEAPOLIS, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
According to the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business’
fifth semiannual ‘Commercial Real Estate Survey,’ Twin Cities industry
leaders are somewhat more pessimistic about future commercial real
estate market conditions two years from now. The survey polls 50
commercial real estate industry leaders representing development,
finance and investment. It measures their expectations for the future of
the market in seven different categories including vacancy rates, rental
rate growth, land prices, building material prices, new project
financing criteria, and rates of return. These are the people who are
making decisions today that will affect future commercial real estate
conditions.
The spring 2012 survey recorded its first composite score below 50,
based on a 0-100 index, since the inception of the survey in 2010,
indicating a more pessimistic view of the future commercial real estate
market. Compared to the fall 2011 survey, the panel anticipates land
values will continue to increase. There is also a strong expectation
that the price of building materials will continue to rise over the next
two years, shifting from a strongly negative 27.9 to a more negative
reading of 26. Both of these factors make it more difficult to obtain
financing and provide adequate returns for investors.
“Those surveyed remain confident that rent and occupancy will continue
to improve over the next two years,” said Herb Tousley, director of real
estate programs at the University of St. Thomas, who conducted the
survey along with his colleague Dr. Thomas Hamilton, associate professor
of real estate. “However, expected increases in land prices and building
materials may have a dampening effect on commercial development
activity.”
Investor’s return expectations remain unchanged at 49, which is
essentially neutral. “This serves as an indication that investors are
still trying to figure out the ‘new normal’ in the commercial real
estate space,” noted Tousley.
Follow this link to read the entire report:
http://www.stthomas.edu/business/centers/shenehon/pdf/MNCRE_2012Spring_Web.pdf
About the UST Opus College of Business With a vision to
educate highly principled global business leaders, the University of St.
Thomas Opus College of Business offers undergraduate concentrations in
13 fields and master’s degrees in seven programs, including day and
evening MBA programs. The school enrolls another 4,300 participants
annually in executive-education classes. Its Shenehon Center for Real
Estate, one of 12 centers and institutes, provides research and develops
programs impacting the real estate industry, and has been the academic
voice involved in several local and national real estate industry
organizations.
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Minneapolis has offered household recycling for the last 23 years. But for at least the last decade, recycling rates in the city have been stagnant, at around 18 percent.
That relatively low rate of recycling is partly due to the city’s complex sorting scheme. Residents have had to separate nine different categories of recyclables into separate bags for bi-weekly pickup.
But that sorting requirement might be thrown out.
The Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee voted Tuesday to start shifting the city’s recycling program to a single-sort collection. That means residents will be able to put all their recyclable materials into one container.
The city hopes to increase the rate of recycling in the city by 60 percent with the new system.
Council Member Elizabeth Glidden said she’s heard from constituents about the city’s recycling program since she took office in 2005.
“It’s hard for me to express how excited I am about this recommendation,” Glidden said. “I’ve had residents who, frankly, are angry that we don’t have a system that is more simple, that encourages more recycling.”
Consultants from Michigan-based Recycling Resources System outlined the pros and cons of different recycling programs. The consultants found that moving to single-sort recycling would decrease costs and increase recycling rates (see PDF).
Glidden told MPR News that the consultants also considered whether the system could add organics recycling to the single-sort recycling services in the future, which would include food, and possibly yard waste.
Although the Department of Public Works will return to the city council with financial and educational proposals to implement the system early this summer. The city also will need to invest quite a bit in capital costs. New trucks are anticipated to cost, at minimum, about $150,000 each. But the bigger expense would be new recycling carts for homeowners, which could set the city back a minimum of $6.8 million, according to the report.
Minneapolis Director of Public Works Steven Kotke told MPR News that the city is trying to push single-sort recycling forward so that it can meet sustainability goals set by the county. By 2020, Hennepin County wants Minneapolis to achieve a recycling goal of 35 percent. The city receives a $850,000 county grant that’s tied to changing to a more effective recycling program.
The recommendation to switch to single-sort recycling is expected to be heard by the full City Council on May 25. Kotke said the program could be on the streets by next year.
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Now that Gov. Mark Dayton has signed the $975 million Minnesota Vikings stadium bill, it’s Minneapolis City Council’s turn to get the ball.
In April, seven of the 13 council members endorsed the stadium, and proponents hope that support will hold firm when the council again takes up the issue this month.
But the bill — signed Monday, May 14, at a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda — has changed since the council last saw it.
Council member Gary Schiff noted Friday that the Legislature had the chance to offer more than 50 amendments to the plan, but Minneapolis council members can offer none.
That “up-or-down vote,” Schiff said, is a bad process.
Council member Don Samuels, a stadium supporter, said his endorsement will not change. He will vote for the proposal, in part because it delivers construction jobs badly needed in his ward and includes a minority hiring guarantee.
Mayor R.T. Rybak spokesman John Stiles said the proposal will go before the council’s Intergovernmental Relations committee May 24 for an official vote, and the council will accept the committee’s recommendation the next day as a formality.
The committee is composed of all 13 council members. Stiles said no other committees will take up the proposal before then.
Stiles was confident the proposal will pass with at least seven votes.
“Absolutely,” he said. “Obviously, it’s never done until it’s done, but we’re very confident that our seven supporters are strong.
“We
would certainly love to have more than seven votes. We think there’s good reason for all council members to support this. We’ll be trying to win more votes than seven.”
Supporters say construction in downtown Minneapolis will create jobs and keep Minnesota’s favorite sports team from fleeing the state, but opponents fear a provision extending downtown sales taxes will give restaurant-goers and other visitors a reason to skip the entertainment district.
Opponents also object to using locally generated revenue for a project that benefits the entire state and that helps team owner Zygi Wilf, a wealthy real estate developer, become even wealthier.
Schiff said that one of the most important amendments adopted last week in the Legislature reduces the state’s contribution to the project by $50 million, while increasing the Vikings’ contribution by the same amount.
Minneapolis got no similar break. The city would still put in $338.7 million, including $150 million for construction.
The city’s contributions would exceed $600 million after interest.
The state would contribute $348 million by taxing new forms of charitable gaming — electronic pull-tabs and bingo in bars — and the Vikings would contribute $477 million, much of it derived from stadium naming rights and, presumably, the NFL, which also will vote on the deal.
To fund its portion, Minneapolis will extend the life of several downtown sales taxes by 20 years, cementing the entertainment district’s status as one of the most heavily taxed in the country, Schiff said.
City council member Cam Gordon shares similar objections. The Minneapolis City Charter bars public funding for professional sports teams without a popular referendum, but the stadium legislation includes a provision that sidesteps that process.
Gordon said he’ll raise that concern and others in council discussions.
The legislation, however, did offer Minneapolis a few incentives.
Council member Meg Tuthill, a supporter who was once on the fence about the stadium, said the legislation moves funding for the Target Center — a concert and show venue that is also home to the Timberwolves and the Lynx — away from the city’s general fund. Instead, downtown sales taxes can now pay the Target Center’s debts, with leftover money going toward badly needed renovations.
“It’s a go,” Tuthill said. “Getting the Target Center out of the general fund is really important to me. That’s really important to me.”
A call to council President Barb Johnson, a stadium supporter, was not returned.
Frederick Melo can be reached at 651-228-2172. Follow him at twitter.com/FrederickMelo.
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SEATTLE, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Walk Score™, the only site that makes it easy for apartment renters and homebuyers to find neighborhoods where they can drive less and live more, announced today the long anticipated launch of Bike Score™. Bike Score is the only quantitative measure of the bikeability of a location based on the availability of bike lanes, hilliness, road connectivity, nearby amenities, and the percent of people in that area who bike to work.
“Bicycling saves money on gas and fosters better health and a cleaner environment. But the best part about it is not being trapped in traffic. Biking can turn your commute into the best part of your day,” said Josh Herst, CEO, Walk Score. “Across the country, biking is growing in popularity and we’re excited to celebrate Bike to Work Week by introducing Bike Score to help more people find bicycle friendly places to live.”
Top 10 Most Bikeable Cities
1. Minneapolis (79)
2. Portland (70)
3. San Francisco (70)
4. Boston (68)
5. Madison (67)
6. Washington, D.C. (65)
7. Seattle (64)
8. Tucson (64)
9. New York (62)
10. Chicago (62)
“There’s no doubt that Bike Score will add to the growing number of riders in these leading cities by helping everyday cyclists, and those who want to give biking a try, find bikeable neighborhoods and commutes,” said Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, sponsor of Bike to Work Week and the Bicycle Friendly America program.
At launch, Bike Score is available in the ten U.S. cities listed above. Bike Score heat maps are also available for ten of the largest Canadian cities including Toronto, Montreal and Calgary.
To request Bike Score for your city, visit www.walkscore.com/bike. Walk Score will add Bike Score for the top 10 cities receiving votes between May 14 and May 31, 2012.
Bicycling by the Numbers
With gas prices rising, more Americans are looking to get out of their cars and find other ways to get around. Bicycling offers a fun and affordable solution especially for people living in neighborhoods with limited access to public transportation and where distances are too far to walk to work or shopping.
- Americans made 4 billion trips by bicycle in 2009, more than twice as many as in 2001.(1)
- Bike commuting increased 43 percent between 2000 and 2010.(2)
- 71 percent of Americans say they would like to bicycle more than they do now.(3)
How Bike Score Works
Bike Score provides a 0-100 rating of the bikeability of a location based on the availability of bike infrastructure (lanes and trails), the hilliness of the area, amenities and road connectivity, and the number of bike commuters. The Bike Score for a city is then calculated by applying the Bike Score algorithm block-by-block throughout the city and weighting the scores by population density. Cities with scores of 70 or higher are considered to be very bikeable, cities with scores between 50 and 69 are bikeable, and cities with scores below 50 are somewhat bikeable.
Walk Score received thousands of votes for over one hundred ideas from customers on how to calculate Bike Score. Bike Score was developed in collaboration with, and a grant from, the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Detailed methodology information is available at http://www.walkscore.com/methodology.shtml.
“We are thrilled to partner with the popular and well-regarded Walk Score to extend our research to consumers,” said Meghan Winters, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
“Bike Score will help cities measure and improve their cycling infrastructure, a key to increasing ridership,” said Michael Brauer, Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, who also contributed to the development of the Bike Score methodology.
About Walk Score
Walk Score makes it easy for apartment renters and homebuyers to find neighborhoods where they can drive less and live more. Walk Score believes that walkable neighborhoods with access to public transit, shorter commutes, and proximity to the people and places you love are the key to a happier, healthier and more sustainable lifestyle. Walk Score delivers more than 6 million scores for apartment and home addresses per day across a network of over 15,000 real estate sites. Walk Score’s Advisory Board includes urban planning, environmental and technical experts from organizations such as Sightline Institute and The Brookings Institution. According to independent research conducted by CEOs for Cities, one point of Walk Score adds up to $3,000 to home values. To find your Walk Score, enter your address at www.walkscore.com.
(1) U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, 2009
(2) http://www.americabikes.org/2012survey
(3) National Survey of Bicyclist and Pedestrian Attitudes and Behavior, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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MINNEAPOLIS — A man was shot and killed after threatening police with a knife during a domestic dispute call Saturday morning.
Minneapolis police officers responded to a domestic assault involving weapons call around 2:15 a.m. at an apartment building in the 3000 block of 19th Avenue South.
When police arrived, officers heard a woman screaming inside. The officers then forced their way into the apartment.
After entering the apartment, a man came towards the officers with a knife. MPD assistant chief Janee Harteau says the officers “were forced to defend themselves and returned fire.”
The suspect was shot and killed. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the suspect has not been released.
No other injuries were reported.
The two officers involved in the incident have been placed on a standard three day administrative leave.
The Minneapolis Police Department Homicide and Internal Affairs units are investigating the incident.
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Minneapolis police shot and killed a man they say approached them with a knife Saturday, May 12.
Officers responded to a report of a domestic assault involving weapons about 2:15 a.m. at an apartment building in the 3000 block of 19th Avenue South. They could hear a woman screaming but were refused entry to the second-floor apartment, according to a statement from the police department.
When the officers forced their way in, they were met by a man wielding a knife. Dispatchers reportedly heard voices ordering the man to drop the knife, the police statement said.
“When the suspect approached officers and did not put down the knife, the officers were forced to defend themselves and shot and killed the suspect,” the statement said.
The two officers involved have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard practice after a shooting incident. One officer has 15 years’ experience; the other has four, according to the department.
The man’s identity will be released by the Hennepin County medical examiner.
The incident is under investigation by the Minneapolis police homicide unit and internal affairs.
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