Mayor Coleman, BLM's Rashad Turner on Crashed Ice protest
Red Bull Crashed Ice competition scheduled for Feb. 27 in St. Paul is apparently going ahead as planned.
That's despite an announcement on Monday from Black Lives Matter St. Paul, which said it will stage a "non-violent shut down action" at the downhill ice skating event.
Among other demands, the group wants the city to fire a police officer who used social media to suggest that motorists run over protesters at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day march.
The city responded to that incident by placing Sgt. Jeffrey Rothecker on administrative leave.
MPR News host Tom Crann talked with both Rashad Turner of Black Lives Matter St. Paul and Chris Coleman, the city's mayor, about the planned protest.
Use the audio players above to hear conversations with Turner and Coleman.
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