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Today's snowstorm couldn't have come at a better time for KSTP in the aftermath of its ill-fated decision last Thursday to run a police-union-inspired story claiming Mayor Betsy Hodges 

 with Navell Gordon, a young man with whom she was participating in a get-out-the-vote door-knocking effort.

Attention to the story has faded somewhat through the weekend.  What remains of it?

I answered the question during a segment on The Current this morning with Steve Seel and Jill Riley.

There are many more layers to the story, however, that will outlive the near universal condemnation of KSTP.

, says the story raises significant questions about the way the Minneapolis Police Department looks at the non-white people of the city.

"But this story is not about Mayor Hodges," a news release today from 

Over the weekend, the Star Tribune's Molly Priesmeyer 

, the former Minneapolis cop who appeared in the KSTP story claiming Hodges "should have known better" than to point -- flashing gang symbols, he says -- at Gordon.

KSTP reporter Jay Kolls' only comments -- aside from his Twitter comments -- on the backlash came on Friday when he appeared on 

"I just put it out there because they (the Minneapolis police union) came to me and said 'this is preposterous,'" Kolls said.

"Why he's not in prison, I have no idea," Soucheray said of Gordon.

There's another easily-obtained answer that someone in journalism didn't bother himself with.

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Bob Collins

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The snowstorm couldn't have come at a better time for KSTP in the aftermath of its ill-fated decision last Thursday to run a police-union-inspired story claiming Mayor Betsy Hodges was flashing gang signs with Navell Gordon, a young man with whom she was participating in a get-out-the-vote door-knocking effort.

After ‘the point’, a question of racism remains

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