The #NoKidsInPrison traveling exhibit themed around abolishing youth prisons, stopped in St. Paul and featured an installation noting Target's role in youth incarceration.
That’s not the kind of targeting they’re talking about in the article at all. According to the article, Target provides a lot of funding to the police and other government functions in Minneapolis. They also provided some rather suspect “expert testimony” that linked an innocent child to a crime based on the pants they were wearing in a Target surveillance video. Target also teamed up with Minneapolis police to maintain a list of 100 predominantly black at risk youths so that the minor crimes of those youths would get more severe prosecution and punishment to make sure they ended up in jail for minor offenses instead of receiving the housing and support they needed to stay out of prison.
That’s not the kind of targeting they’re talking about in the article at all. According to the article, Target provides a lot of funding to the police and other government functions in Minneapolis. They also provided some rather suspect “expert testimony” that linked an innocent child to a crime based on the pants they were wearing in a Target surveillance video. Target also teamed up with Minneapolis police to maintain a list of 100 predominantly black at risk youths so that the minor crimes of those youths would get more severe prosecution and punishment to make sure they ended up in jail for minor offenses instead of receiving the housing and support they needed to stay out of prison.