How Black Minnesota journalists are revolutionizing US police coverage

Last August, amid massive civil rights protests following George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, a group of protestors in the Minneapolis suburbs destroyed a piñata with the likeness of reporter Liz Collin, an anchor at the local WCCO TV station.

They were there because it had only recently been publicly disclosed that Ms Collin is married to Bob Kroll, the outspoken former head of the Minneapolis police union, who was a campaign speaker for Donald Trump and once called Mr Floyd a “violent criminal.” Even though, according to WCCO, Ms Collin didn’t directly cover Minneapolis police, she had previously reported on high-profile incidents involving the police and people of colour in the Twin Cities, like the death of Philando Castile. (The Independent reached out to Ms Collin for comment.)