A year's worth of debate, work and policy wrangling over how to change or dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of George Floyd's murder has been overshadowed by a dramatic rise in crime that is shaking city leaders and residents.

• A shooting early Saturday outside a Minneapolis nightclub left two dead, including 21-year-old Charlie B. Johnson; his father said he was celebrating his upcoming graduation from St. Thomas when he was struck by stray gunfire, according to the Star Tribune.
• In the past month, three kids 10 and under have been hit in gun crossfire. 6-year-old Aniya Allen died last week.
• Minneapolis has reported 32 homicides so far this year, up from 15 at this point last year and just eight for the same period of 2019, according to city statistics.

Why it matters: Efforts at major policing changes in Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota have been blocked, sidetracked and watered down over the past year, and the recent crime surge could further slow momentum.

State of play: Mayor Jacob Frey is asking for more city cops, state troopers and federal investigators to help deal with the violence.

• Some council members say that reallocating officer funding to social programs would prevent the type of violence the city is seeing now.

Scorecard: After Floyd's murder, Frey banned most no-knock raids and prohibited officers from shooting at moving vehicles, among other changes. The Minnesota Legislature banned most chokeholds and warrior-style training last summer.

• But efforts by the City Council to replace MPD with "a holistic, public health-oriented approach" were thwarted by the judge-appointed City Charter Commission.
• That group blocked a ballot initiative to cut the number of police officers mandated by the City Charter.

Yes, but: The movement isn't over. A group pushing for a reimagined MPD delivered more than 20,000 signatures to City Hall earlier this month, and now a question about replacing the department will appear on the November ballot.

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A celebration of life and remembrance for George Floyd will be held from 10am to 5pm at Powderhorn Park, with special guests, musical performances, food trucks and vendors.

• At noon, the Westminster Town Hall Forum's special series,"The Arc Toward Justice: Taking Stock One Year After George Floyd's Death," will be broadcast on MPR, as well as Westminster's social media channels. Guests include Angela Harrelson, George Floyd's aunt, and Paris Stevens, his cousin.
• Gov. Tim Walz has called for 9 minutes, 29 seconds of silence at 1pm to remember Floyd.

🐝 Jerry Blackwell felt it was his duty to help put Derek Chauvin behind bars. Now he's back to work as a corporate attorney and attending to his bees — yes, he's a beekeeper. (MPR News)

🗳 A blind and permanently disabled man said he was tricked by a Republican operative into running for Congress against Collin Peterson under the Grassroots Legalize Cannabis Party. (Fox 9)

🏗 Two development companies that had been planning nearly 400 apartments in Minnetonka have canceled the project after disagreements with the city's planning commission over affordable housing. (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)

🎸 Rammstein postponed its summer tour and has rescheduled its U.S. Bank Stadium show for Aug. 27, 2022. (Star Tribune)

Sloane Martin is the Swiss Army knife of broadcasting.

As a reporter for WCCO Radio, she's covered civil unrest, COVID-19 and the Derek Chauvin trial.

• But when her day job ends, she hustles over to Target Center — or even flies to other Big 10 cities — to do play-by-play for Lynx games, Big 10 basketball games or Minnesota high school state tournament games.

In between, Martin takes time for reading and listening. She told Axios about her media habits:

📱 Device of choice: iPhone 11

👇 First tap of the day: email, followed by Instagram. "It used to be Twitter. ... But I've decided over the pandemic to make a transition to a little bit more of a gentler wake-up."

📰 Go-to news sources: Star Tribune, New York Times, The Atlantic and the The New Yorker.

🎧 Podcast queue: Throughline by NPR.

📖 Reading list: "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father" by David Maraniss. "That appealed to me because my grandfather worked in PR in Hollywood and was also testifying in the House Committee on Un-American Activities back in the 50s."

Bonus question: Should we be worried about the Lynx getting off to an 0-3 start?

• "I'm not worried at all," Martin said. "This is a team that has been to the playoffs 10 straight times. ... (Star forward) Napheesa Collier is coming back from playing overseas and she is playing in the next game."

It was Bob Dylan's 80th birthday yesterday and MinnPost asked Minnesota politicians for their favorite songs of the native Minnesotan.

Congressman Dean Phillips said Positively 4th Street is his favorite, which is not remarkable. But this story certainly is:

"In 1960 or so my grandfather, Yale Johnson, hired a young kid named Zimmerman from the University of Minnesota to play guitar at a party for my aunt and uncle and their 20-something friends. He put him up on a ladder and after a few songs that 'sounded worse than fingernails on a chalkboard,' gave him a $20 bill and told him he could go home. Little did he know that in a few short years, Bobby Zimmerman would be known the world over as the greatest songwriter of our times, Bob Dylan."

Nick's favorite Dylan song: Tangled up in Blue

Torey's: Hurricane