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January 29, 2025


** From the Archives: Investigative Series on Target
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As Target corporation recently hit the news for rolling back their DEI policies and a mass consumer boycott started, we look back at our previously published investigative series by contributor Marjaan Sirdar — 21st Century Jim Crow: How Target Corp., the City of Minneapolis, and Hennepin County Created a Domestic Spy Program that Rolled Back Civil Rights on its Black Population ([link removed]) .

Catch up on all 12 reports on the series landing page ([link removed]) and in the links below.


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Minneapolis Series: 21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City ([link removed])

Part 1 – Policing and Punishment in Minneapolis’ ‘SafeZone’ ([link removed]) provides critical coverage of the public/private surveillance partnership launched in downtown Minneapolis in 2004.
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Part 2 – Minneapolis Faces Facial Recognition ([link removed]) provides evidence at a time when residents are drawing the line on invasive technology of how Minneapolis was a model city for massive surveillance in America after 9/11.
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Part 3 – Minneapolis’ Downtown Dark Alliance ([link removed]) places Target Corp. at the center of a profit-driven public-private partnership that rolled back civil rights on its Black population.
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Part 4 – Targeted: Young, Black and Harassed in Downtown Minneapolis ([link removed]) focuses on the voices of multiple youths telling their stories of harassment and brutality by downtown police at the behest of Target Corporation’s racialized surveillance dragnet.
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Part 5 – Activists Target Target’s Cop Collaboration ([link removed]) details the voices of those who began blowing the whistle on Target Corporation’s decades of funding surveillance and draconian law enforcement after George Floyd’s death.
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Part 6 – Target Supremacy: What You Should Know About the 2013 Security Breach ([link removed]) presents evidence that further suggests Target Corp. is a major hidden hand of power in Minneapolis which has acquired troves of data on the general public.
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Part 7 – Unscathed: How the Press Helps Hide Target’s Harm ([link removed]) is a short film examining the role of corporate media in denying the voices of Black youths and adults in Minneapolis.
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Part 8 – Clearing the Way for a Whiter, Wealthier Tax Base: How the City of Minneapolis Uses Racist Policies and Data to Target ‘Undesirable’ Populations ([link removed]) explores various ways in which authorities transformed the city into a playground for “young corporate professionals,” including some programs that preceded Target’s SafeZone surveillance juggernaut.
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Part 9 – #NoKidsInPrison Art Installation Highlights Youth Incarceration Driven By Target ([link removed]) gives readers a video tour of the showroom led by a youth leader with the End Youth Prisons MN campaign as well as interviews with the young people and lead staff behind the project.
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Part 10 – Target Corp’s Critics Call Out Chicanery: New Report Contradicts Official Reason Behind Closings ([link removed]) documents the ongoing deception, this time about why it’s shuttering nine stores.
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Part 11 – How Target Funded A ‘Tough On Crime’ Prosecutor’s Office, Driving Black Youth Incarceration in Minneapolis ([link removed]) retraces the history of the Target-funded Community Prosecution Program, that still exists today, and how the retail giant funded the county attorney’s office for several years to prosecute its self-proclaimed enemies: Black people.
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Part 12 – Target, ‘Junk Science’ and Unreliable Testimonies: The Contentious Conviction of 15-Year-Old Mahdi Ali ([link removed]) reveals the remarkable story of the young refugee prosecuted for a 2010 triple murder in Minneapolis, with the crucial assistance of Target forensics investigators.
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