Minnesota Mayor Target of Racist Threats in Trash Dispute
An anonymous caller using racial slurs left a voicemail at Carter's office on Monday.
ST. PAUL, Minn.–The mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, has received racist threats amid a long-simmering dispute over how the city should collect its trash. Police in Minnesota’s capital are investigating threatening and racist messages to Mayor Melvin Carter in the run-up to a citywide vote on organized trash collection. A St. Paul police spokesman says an anonymous caller using racial…
