Photos: Twin Cities protests highlight racism, brutality

Mario Cruz holds up a sign among protesters.
Mario Cruz holds up a sign among protesters on Tuesday in front of Coffman Union at the U.
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Protests at the University of Minnesota, at a police station in south Minneapolis and marching down University Avenue in St. Paul all focused on racism and police brutality in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

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