Cari Spencer
Reporter
Meet Cari Spencer
Cari Spencer is a reporter for MPR News covering public safety and Minneapolis City Hall.
Cari joined MPR News as an intern in 2024. Previously, she was a reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times and wrote for Crosstown LA, the LA School Report and The 74.
Cari attended the University of Southern California where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Recent Contributions
- Frey asks city attorney to help revive parts of dismissed federal agreement on MPD
- Minneapolis council wants to formalize promise to follow dismissed federal consent decree
- Minneapolis will hold private ceremony to mark one year since the death of officer Jamal Mitchell
- Many Minneapolis residents near Derek Chauvin‘s old precinct don't trust police. Cops say they are working on it
- Minneapolis council member Emily Koski drops out of mayor's race
- Davis Moturi reflects on failed pleas to Minneapolis police that led to him being shot in his own yard
- Protesters tee off against Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies in Minnesota and across U.S.
- Prosecution of man accused of shooting neighbor paused after 2nd incompetency finding
- MPD still working through monitor’s first year goals to speed up complaint backlog, finalize policies
- Minneapolis city leaders approve plan to retain violence interrupters in Cedar Riverside
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