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Tom Crann

Mayor Coleman, BLM's Rashad Turner on Crashed Ice protest

Crashed Ice
Black Lives Matter St. Paul is planning a protest at this year's Crashed Ice event.
Caroline Yang for MPR News 2015

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Red Bull Crashed Ice competition scheduled for Feb. 27 in St. Paul is apparently going ahead as planned.

Rashad Turner
Rashad Turner of the St. Paul chapter of Black Lives Matter
Jim Gehrz | Star Tribune via AP 2015

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.

St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman
St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman
Curtis Gilbert | MPR News 2015

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.