section_path: Protests by U.S. state/Minnesota
section_name: Minnesota
paragraph_text: Minnesota
  
  Events in Anoka and northeast Minneapolis were cancelled by organizers due to a shelter-in-place warning and concerns with safety after the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. Flyers for No Kings protests were found in the gunman's vehicle.
  
  Even though events were later officially cancelled statewide, protests across the state were still held in St. Paul, Aitkin, Apple Valley, Brainerd, Bloomington, Chaska, Farmington, Forest Lake, Inver Grove Heights, Minnetonka, Otsego, St. Paul Highland, Stillwater, and White Bear Lake. In Greater Minnesota, Winona, International Falls, Duluth, Ely, Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Chisholm, Owatonna, Rochester, Wabasha, Lake City, Northfield, Glencoe, and Hutchinson. The protest at the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul had a reported attendance of anywhere from 25,000 to 80,000 people, albeit without governor Tim Walz as a speaker.