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- One year after the death of George Floyd saw Minneapolis become ground zero for the defund the police movement, its people are paying for it in their blood
- DailyMail.com visited Minneapolis last week to find a city under siege and under policed amid a troubling surge in gun violence that is now claiming the lives of young children
- Trinity Ottoson-Smith, 9, Aniya Allen, 6, and LaDavionne Garrett Jr, 10, were shot in three separate occasions across the city in three weeks. Trinity and Aniya died from their injuries, while LaDavionne remains in hospital
- On Thursday violence and flames erupted in Minneapolis once more following news that police had shot dead a black man wanted on a warrant
- So far this year, 211 people had suffered gunshots wounds - up from the 81 from this time last year
- Meanwhile, Minneapolis Police Department has lost one third of its force - with more than 200 cops leaving or signing off on disability
- On Sunday more than 300 people gathered at the site of Aniya's fatal shooting for a Peace Walk, a call from the community 'to put down the guns and pick up the love'
- Last night the city erupted in violence and flames once more as news that police had shot dead a black man wanted on a warrant was met with yet more looting and riots
Balloons idle above the trampoline and flowers wilt on its surface. Trinity Ottoson-Smith was playing in the backyard of her Minneapolis neighborhood May 15 when she was struck by a stray bullet.
The nine-years-old was caught in the crossfire of a shoot-out as gun-toting thugs drove along the alleyway behind her friend's house in this pretty neighborhood. She died last Thursday.
Trinity was the second child to be shot in Minneapolis in three weeks. Six-year-old Aniya Allen was shot May 17 and died the following day. She took a bullet to the head as she ate McDonald's in her mother's car. Ten-year-old LaDavionne Garrett Jr. was shot in the head while sitting in his parents' car April 30.
Welcome to Minneapolis, a city well on the way to eclipsing the violence that once saw it called Murderapolis.
One year after the death of George Floyd saw this city become ground zero for the defund the police movement, its people are paying for it with their blood.
Last night the city erupted in violence and flames once more as news that police had shot dead a black man wanted on a warrant was met with yet more looting and riots.
A harrowing photo shared by the family of six-year-old Aniya Allen lays bare the heartbreaking reality of Minneapolis's surging gun violence and understaffed police force. The young girl's grandfather, Kay G Wilson, is seen weeping over her casket on Tuesday, two weeks after she was shot in the head
The violence is most marked in the city's embattled northside - with nine-year-old Trinity, six-year-old Aniya and ten-year-old LaDavionne all shot within a mile of each other - but it is not confined to it
Trinity Ottoson-Smith (left) nine, was shot in a drive-by May 15 while jumping on a trampoline. Two days later, six-year-old Aniya Allen (center) took a bullet to the head while eating McDonald's in her mom's car. And ten-year-old LaDavionne Garrett Jr (right) was shot in the head April 30 as he sat in the backseat of his parents' car. Trinity and Aniya later died from their injuries, while LaDavionne remains in hospital
Earlier, as crews began moving in to remove the concrete barricades that have sealed off the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago - the infamous location of Floyd's death and a so-called 'autonomous zone' over the past year - hostilities and tensions roiled over.
One resident told The Daily Mail that living here was like 'living in Palestine.'
When DailyMail.com visited Minneapolis last week we found a city under siege and under policed, its children dying – victims of the gun violence that has sky-rocketed in the past year.
Minneapolis isn't the only city to have seen a rise in crime over the last year, but it is magnified here and the city has stumbled in the spotlight as it tries to reimagine public safety.
There have been 36 homicides so far this year, more than double the number at this point last year and more than four times that seen in 2019.
Car-jackings are up a staggering 222 per cent. Shootings have risen 153 per cent. Eighty per cent of the victims are black.
Minneapolis cops fatally shoot man who 'displayed' a handgun
Minneapolis erupted in violence and flames once more on Thursday as news that police had shot dead a black man wanted on a warrant was met with yet more looting and riots. Pictured: Protesters setting a dumpster on fire on the streets of the city
Tensions roiled over as crews began moving in to remove the concrete barricades that have sealed off the infamous location of George Floyd's death and a so-called 'autonomous zone' over the past year