The Neighborhood Safety Department plans to resubmit the request. Officials say the new request won't include funding for Rev. Jerry McAfee's nonprofit, after his recent council outburst. MINNEAPOLIS ...
City officials withdrew a request for Minneapolis City Council action on a violence interrupter contract amid concerns surrounding a local nonprofit and its founder.
I tried to talk to Rev. Jerry McAfee about his threatening rant against Minneapolis City Council members last week following a since-scrapped proposal to temporarily move two group violence ...
It has since been reported that both have worked for the violence interruption group 21 Days of Peace. Rev. Jerry McAfee, the ...
Over the last few weeks, the dialogue about the prevention of violence has centered on the Rev. Jerry McAfee’s back-and-forth ...
The Rev. Jerry McAfee speaks to the media surrounded by 21 Days of Peace workers and other violence prevention workers after a Minneapolis City Council meeting at the Public Service Center in ...
On Monday, the Minneapolis City Council decided to pull a proposed $640 thousand contract for a non-profit company that helps fund the 21 Days of Peace organization.
That office is under the Office of Community Safety for the city. One of those contracts is for Salem, Inc. That group is affiliated with Reverend Jerry McAfee. McAfee has come under fire recently for ...
The city of Minneapolis relies on volunteers known as violence interrupters to help keep the peace in the neighborhood, but ...
Tensions were high in downtown Minneapolis on Monday as the city decided not to fund violence prevention groups created by Rev. Jerry McAfee.
"We've been able to sometimes get people into treatment and just sometimes just counsel them, and one of the highlights is when we are able to feed them," Rev. Jerry McAfee said. McAfee says that ...
Rev. Jerry McAfee speaks with FOX 9's Paul Blume about the recent decision from the Minneapolis City Council to not fund his violence prevention nonprofit.