David Hanners

Damning details relating to the 2006 shooting of Fong Lee by a Minneapolis police officer came to light last week. The capstone was David Hanners’ terrific Sunday piece profiling Lee, officer Jason Anderson and the handgun at the center of the controversy. The upshot from the coverage: evidence suggesting Lee was unarmed and that the [...]

Conservative Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten this morning called out an online petition that demands her firing. The petition (which has 191 signatories at present — hardly the “droves” Kersten writes of, although since she drew attention to it, the numbers are steadily climbing) accuses Kersten of “journalistic malpractice” for her columns on the majority-Muslim [...]