2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Marginal districts, Democratic-held targets
These Democratic districts are the most vulnerable to Republican challengers.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 1
In the 1st district Democratic incumbent Tenisha Yancey won her primary unopposed on August 4. On November 3, Yancey defeated the Republican nominee, Latricia Ann Lanier, in the general election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 3
Incumbent Democrat Wendell Byrd stood down in the 3rd district due to term limits.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 4
Incumbent representative Isaac Robinson died in March 2020 of a suspected COVID-19 infection. Twelve Democrats ran to succeed him, but Abraham Aiyash was elected as the Democratic nominee for the seat. On November 3, Aiyash defeated the Republican nominee Howard Weathington in the general election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 5
In the 5th district, Cynthia A. Johnson faced two Democratic challengers in the primary. Jermaine Tobey and Rita Ross, the sister of singer Diana Ross. Johnson won her primary and won against Republican nominee Harold Day in the general election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 6
In the 6th district, Democrat Tyrone Carter is running for re-election in the general election unopposed. He won his primary election, beating challengers Ivy Nichole Neal and David Palmer. There was no Republican Primary held.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 7
Incumbent Democrat LaTanya Garrett stood down in the 7th district due to term limits. Helena Scott was the Democratic nominee and Ronald Cole was the Republican nominee. On November 3, Scott defeated Cole in the general election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 8
Incumbent Democrat Sherry Gay-Dagnogo did not run in the primary, instead running to be on the Detroit school board. Democrat Stephanie Young was elected as the Democratic nominee in the 8th district. On November 3, Young defeated Republican nominee Miroslawa Teresa Gorak in the general election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 10
In the 10th district, incumbent Democrat Leslie Love was unable to run for re-election due to term limits.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 11
In the 11th district, incumbent Democrat Jewell Jones won re-election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 12
In the 12th district, incumbent Democrat Alex Garza won re-election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 13
In the 13th district, incumbent Democrat Frank Liberati was unable to run for re-election due to term limits.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 14
In the 14th district, incumbent Democrat Cara Clemente won re-election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 19
In the 19th district, Democrat Laurie Pohutsky ran for re-election. Her Republican opponent was Martha Ptashnik. Pohutsky narrowly won re-election


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 23
In the 23rd district, Democrat Darrin Camilleri won re-election. He was challenged by Republican nominee John Poe.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 25
In the 25th district, Democrat Nate Shannon won re-election. His Republican opponent was Paul Smith.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 38
In the 38th district, incumbent Republican Kathy Crawford was prevented from running for re-election due to term limits. Kelly Breen was elected as a Democrat in this Republican district.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 39
In the 39th district, incumbent Republican Ryan Berman won re-election.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 45
In the 45th district, incumbent Republican Michael Webber could not run for re-election due to term-limits.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 51
On August 4, 2020, the primary elections occurred. Incumbent Republican Mike Mueller ran unopposed. Brad May, a mental health clinician, was nominated on the Democratic ticket. In the primary, May defeated Conner Wallace. Wallace later endorsed May's candidacy.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 51
On September 18, 2020, the Michigan Republican Party pointed to May's criminal record, which included conviction for robbery, possession of cocaine, and retail fraud. The state Republican Party criticized the Michigan Education Association for endorsing him, despite his criminal past. May responded to these allegations. He confirmed that they were true, but also claimed that he had made significant improvements to his life since his convictions, and that through his work as a clinician, has been able to help those who had been in a similar position to himself.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 51
In the general election on November 3, 2020, Mueller was re-elected, defeating May.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 61
Incumbent Republican Brandt Iden was term limited, which made the 61st district an open seat. The primaries occurred on August 4 and decided that Republican nominee Bronwyn Haltom was to run against incumbent Kalamazoo County Commissioner, Christine Morse, as the Democratic nominee. Morse won the seat.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 62
Incumbent Democrat Jim Haadsma won re-election in the 62nd district against Republican nominee Dave Morgan.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 71
In Michigan's 71st House of Representatives district, Democrat Angela Witwer was re-elected.


2020 Michigan House of Representatives election, Results by district, District 104
In the 104th district, incumbent Republican Larry Inman did not run for re-election due to term limits. District 104 was the number 1 target for the Democrats but was retained for the GOP by John Roth.


2020 Michigan Proposal 1
Michigan Proposal 20-1 was a ballot initiative approved by voters in Michigan as part of the 2020 United States elections. The ballot initiative amended the Michigan Constitution to require money generated from drilling of oil and gas on state-owned land to be used for upkeep of Michigan's parks and acquisition of land for recreational purposes such as hunting and fishing.


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Ballot access
The proposal was unanimously approved by the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate to be presented to voters.


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Contents
A proposed constitutional amendment to allow money from oil and gas mining on state-owned lands to continue to be collected and state funds for land protection and creation and maintenance of parks, nature areas, and public recreation facilities; and to describe how money in those state funds can be spent


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Support
The proposal was supported by many environmental organizations, as well as DTE Energy and the Democratic Party of Michigan. Becca Maher, the campaign manager for the initiative, wrote "this will create the flexibility needed to fund trails and parks while continuing to prioritize land conservation and protection" and "this ballot measure will not increase taxes."


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Opposition
The proposal was opposed by the Green Party of Michigan, writing that "[the proposal] would tie the state's operating budget to continued oil and gas drilling -- including fracking".


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Opposition
The proposal was also opposed by the Sierra Club's Michigan chapter, writing that while "Sierra Club recognizes and agrees with the need for greater investments in maintenance of recreational facilities within Michigan’s state owned public lands [...] shifting prioritization of money from the MNRTF away from purchasing land and to the maintenance of facilities is shortsighted" and "We can’t continue to rely on oil and gas royalties as a funding source, when we urgently need to end our reliance on them to combat climate change and protect our environment. We need to find new, sustainable, long-term funding sources for the funds. ... Land is non-renewable. If we miss out on the acquisition of a spectacular parcel and it gets sold and subdivided, that’s that—we missed it."


2020 Michigan Proposal 1, Results
The proposal was approved in a landslide, with around 84% of the vote.


2020 Michigan Proposal 2
Michigan Proposal 20-2 was a ballot initiative approved by voters in Michigan as part of the 2020 United States elections.


2020 Michigan Proposal 2, Contents
A proposed constitutional amendment to require a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data or electronic communications


2020 Michigan Proposal 2, Results
The proposal was approved in a landslide, with around 88% of the vote.


2020 Michigan Republican presidential primary
The 2020 Michigan Republican presidential primary took place on March 10, 2020, as one of five contests scheduled for that date in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2020 election.


2020 Michigan Republican presidential primary, Results
Incumbent United States President Donald Trump was challenged by three candidates: former governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, former congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Sanford and Walsh both withdrew prior to the primary. Michigan is the only primary state where Sanford's name remained on the ballot.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 2020 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Spartans competed as members of the East Division of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. This was the program's first season under head coach Mel Tucker.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team
In a limited season, which was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being reinstated, the Spartans compiled a 2–5 record, all in conference games. On December 20, the program announced that it would not participate in any bowl game.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Previous season
The Spartans finished the 2019 season 7–6, 4–5 in Big Ten play to finish in fifth place in the East Division. The Spartans received a bid to the 2019 Pinstripe Bowl where they defeated Wake Forest 27–21.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Previous season
On February 4, 2020, the school announced that head coach Mark Dantonio had retired and Mike Tressel would be taking over as interim head coach for the Spartans. Tressel was previously the team's defensive coordinator. On February 12, the school announced the hiring of Colorado head coach Mel Tucker as the university's 25th head football coach.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Offseason, 2020 NFL Draft
MSU kept its streak of 80 years of having at least one player drafted in the NFL Draft when cornerback Josiah Scott was selected in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Offseason, 2020 NFL Draft
Several other undrafted players signed free agent contracts with NFL teams:


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Offseason, Coaching changes
After Dantonio abruptly retired in March, new head coach Mel Tucker took approximately 10 days to assemble his assistants for the season. Tucker brought with him from his Colorado staff offensive coordinator Jay Johnson, offensive line coach Chris Kapilovic, running backs coach William Peagler, and special teams coordinator Ross Els. Former Spartan wide receiver Courtney Hawkins was named the wide receivers coach, Ted Gilmore the tight ends coach, and Scottie Hazelton the defensive coordinator. Former MSU defensive coach Harlon Barnett returned to coach the secondary after spending two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Florida State. Ron Burton (defensive line) and Mike Tressel (safeties) were the only holdovers from Dantonio's staff.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Preseason, Preseason Big Ten poll
Although the Big Ten Conference has not held an official preseason poll since 2010, Cleveland.com has polled sports journalists representing all member schools as a de facto preseason media poll since 2011. For the 2020 poll, Michigan State was projected to finish in fifth in the East Division.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, COVID-19 effects on season
On July 9, 2020, the Big Ten announced that member teams will only play conference games in effort to reduce issues related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On July 24, the school announced that the entire team, which had returned to campus for voluntary workouts, was being placed on a 14-day quarantine after two staff members and one player tested positive for COVID-19.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, COVID-19 effects on season
On August 11, 2020, the Big Ten canceled the college football season for the fall of 2020 due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. On September 16, the conference reversed course and announced that a season would be played. Teams would begin play on October 24. On September 19, the conference announced an eight-game schedule.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, COVID-19 effects on season
One game, against Maryland, was canceled due to the school's COVID-19 outbreak. A scheduled rematch on December 19 as part of the Big Ten Champions Week was also canceled due to continued COVID-19 issues at Maryland.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Schedule
Michigan State's 2020 schedule originally was planned to begin with a conference home game against Northwestern, followed by three non-conference opponents: the independent BYU Cougars, Toledo of the Mid-American Conference, and finally Miami of the ACC. The non-conference slate was canceled on July 9 due to the Big Ten Conference's decision to play a conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Schedule
On August 4, the Big Ten Conference announced the schedule for all Big Ten teams. In conference play, the Spartans were play all members of the East Division, as well as Northwestern, Iowa, and Minnesota from the West Division. The season was canceled by the conference on August 11, 2020.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Schedule
On September 19, the conference changed course and announced a new, revised, eight-game schedule. A ninth game will be played the week of December 19 where the first place teams in each division will play for the Big Ten Championship, while the remaining teams will play the same-seeded team in the opposite division.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Schedule
On November 19, it was announced that the November 21 game against Maryland had been canceled as all team-related activities were paused because of an elevated number of coronavirus cases within the Terrapins' program. A rescheduled game against Maryland as part of Big Ten Champions Week was also canceled due to COVID-19 issues at Maryland.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Radio
Radio coverage for all games will be broadcast statewide on the Spartans Sports Network


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Rutgers
MSU opened the 2020 season at home against Rutgers. Rutgers scored on their first possession, moving 75 yards before Isaih Pacheco rushed for a 12-yard touchdown to give the Scarlet Knights the early 7–0 lead. MSU quickly turned the ball over to Rutgers on their first offensive play as Jayden Reed fumbled and the Knights took over at MSU's 44. The Spartan defense forced a three-and-out, but the offense again turned the ball over as Rocky Lombardi fumbled the ball and Rutgers took over at the MSU four-yard line.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Rutgers
A one-yard touchdown run a few plays later put the Knights up 14–0 with just under seven minutes remaining in the quarter. MSU's offense took the ensuing kickoff at mid-field and moved to the Rutgers' 42-yard line. However, MSU turned the ball over again, this time on downs, failing to get the first down on a fourth and three play. After a Rutgers' punt, Lombardi hit Reed on a 50-yard pass to bring MSU within seven points. Another Knights' punt gave MSU the ball with 14 minutes remaining in the second quarter.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Rutgers
However, once again, the MSU offense turned the ball over as Lombardi was intercepted and Rutgers took over inside the MSU 30-yard line. Two plays later, a Rutgers' 24-yard touchdown run moved the Knights' lead to 21–7. MSU answered with an 11-play drive that moved into Rutgers territory, but another Jayden Reed fumble gave the ball back to Rutgers with less than eight minutes remaining in the half. MSU took the ball back on an interception by Shakur Brown and MSU notched a field goal to draw within 21–10. With just over three minutes remaining in the half, Rutgers pushed the lead to 28–10 with a three-yard touchdown run. Matt Coghlin hit his second field goal of the game as time expired to make the score 28–13 at the half.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Rutgers
On the first possession of the second half, MSU again turned the ball over on a Jordan Simmons fumble. Rutgers could not capitalize and punted the ball back to MSU. MSU was forced to punt, but a Rutgers fumble on the punt gave MSU the ball at the Rutgers 30. Jalen Nailor scored on the next play, a 30-yard touchdown catch to narrow the lead to 28–20. A Rutgers' fumble on their ensuing possession set MSU up at the 29-yard line. However, the Spartans were again stopped on a fourth down run, turning the ball over on downs.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Rutgers
A Rutgers' field goal to start the fourth quarter pushed the Knights' lead to 31–20. The teams exchanged punts before Rutgers put the game out of reach with a 14-yard touchdown pass with just under five minutes remaining in the game. Another Jayden Reed touchdown catch brought the Spartans within 11. A Rutgers' punt preceded another turnover, the seventh in the game, as Lombardi was intercepted with under 40 seconds remaining. The Knights were able to run out the clock as the Spartans fell 38–27.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
In their first road game of the season, the Spartans traveled to face their rival, Michigan, for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. Despite being a multiple touchdown underdog, the Spartans took the early lead after each team traded punts when Rocky Lombardi hit Ricky White for a 30-yard touchdown pass. However, Michigan quickly responded by scoring on an 11-yard touchdown run following an eight-play drive to tie the game at seven. Each team again was forced to punt on their next two possessions as the game moved to the second quarter.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
Lombardi put the Spartans up again on a two-yard touchdown pass to Connor Heyward moving the Spartan lead to 14–7. Again, each team traded punts before the Wolverines settled for a field goal with 2:49 remaining in the half. Another exchange of punts left MSU with the ball with less than a minute remaining in the half as they ran out the clock to go to halftime with the three-point lead.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
In the second half, Michigan punted on their first possession and the Spartans moved the ball into Wolverine territory on the ensuing possessoin, but settled for another Matt Coghlin field goal to extend the lead to 17–10. Michigan tied it on their next possession with a one-yard touchdown run to put the score at 17–17. MSU retook the lead on their next possession as Coghlin connected on a 51-yard field goal to move MSU into the lead at 20–17.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
Following a Michigan punt, MSU moved to the Wolverine 23, but Coghlin missed a 40-yard field goal that would have moved the Spartan lead to six points. Michigan again failed to move the ball and was forced to punt on their next possession. Following the punt, MSU took over at their own eight-yard line with just under 10 minutes remaining in the game. The Spartans, helped by a Ricky White 31 yard reception, moved to the Michigan 13 with just over five minutes remaining.


2020 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, at Michigan
Lombardi then hit Heyward again for a 13-yard touchdown catch and run to push the Spartan lead to 10 at 27–17. The Wolverines scored on their next possession, but the 18-play drive took over four and a half minutes and left less than 40 seconds remaining on the clock while the Spartans held a 27–24 lead. The onside kick was recovered by Heyward and Lombardi gave the Spartans on a fourth down sneak to run out the clock as the Spartans defeated their rivals 27–24. The win moved MSU to 1–1 on the season.


2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team
The 2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team represented the University of Michigan in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Wolverines, led by head coach Erik Bakich in his eighth season, are a member of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Wilpon Baseball Complex in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On March 12, 2020, the Big Ten Conference cancelled the remainder of all winter and spring sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team, Previous season
The Wolverines finished the 2019 season 50–22 overall, including 16–7 in conference play, finishing in second place in their conference. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Wolverines qualified to play in the 2019 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament, where the Wolverines lost in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament to Nebraska. Michigan received an at-large bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, where they advanced to the College World Series and lost in the championship game to Vanderbilt.


2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team, Preseason
Michigan was the only Big Ten Conference team to appear in every national preseason top-25 ranking. The Wolverines were ranked No. 8 by Baseball America, No. 10 by Collegiate Baseball, No. 11 by ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, No. 12 by NCBWA, and No. 13 by D1Baseball in their respective preseason polls.


2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2020 Michigan Wolverines baseball team, Major League Baseball Draft
The following Wolverines were selected in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft:


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 2020 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the sport of college football during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wolverines played in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference and played their home games at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan was coached by sixth-year head coach Jim Harbaugh.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team
The season was played amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Big Ten Conference initially cancelled the fall sports season, on August 11, 2020, but reversed course on September 16, announcing an eight game conference-only schedule. Michigan's previously scheduled nonconference games against Washington, Ball State, and Arkansas State were canceled due to the pandemic. Precautions were taken to promote player, staff, and fan safety, including regular COVID-19 testing, isolation requirements, and mask wearing; games were largely played with no fans in attendance.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team
Michigan began the year ranked 16th in the preseason AP Poll. In the season's opening game against then-No. 21 Minnesota, Michigan won, on the road, 49–24. After rising to 13th in the polls, Michigan was upset by unranked in-state rival Michigan State. After losing two more games against ranked opponents Indiana and Wisconsin, Michigan won a triple-overtime game against Rutgers, and lost to Penn State the following week. Michigan's final three conference games, against Maryland, Ohio State, and Iowa, were canceled due to COVID-19 outbreaks. While the NCAA's win requirements for bowl eligibility were lifted for the season, Michigan was not selected to a bowl game for the first time since 2014, ending the season with a 2–4 record.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team
Quarterback Joe Milton began the season as the team's starting quarterback, but by the end of the season he had been replaced by backup Cade McNamara. The team's leading rusher was Hassan Haskins, with 375 yards, and the team's leading receiver was Ronnie Bell with 401 receiving yards. On defense, lineman Kwity Paye led the team in tackles-for-loss and was named second-team all-conference. Linebacker Josh Ross led the team in tackles.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Coaching changes
It was announced a day after the Citrus Bowl that safeties coach and special teams coordinator Chris Partridge accepted a co-defensive coordinator role at Ole Miss.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Coronavirus
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of all University of Michigan athletic activities during the spring of 2020, including the football team's annual spring game. The pandemic also led to cancellation of the team's international trip for the first time since 2016.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Coronavirus
On July 9, the Big Ten Conference announced that it would adopt "a conference-only season" for all sports due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision resulted in the cancellation of the first three games of Michigan's 2020 season against Washington, Ball State, and Arkansas State.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Coronavirus
On August 11, the Big Ten announced that all fall sports, including football, would be indefinitely postponed due to COVID-19. The conference allowed for the possibility of competition in these sports to begin in the spring. However, the conference later announced the season would begin on October 23, with a schedule to be announced on September 19.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Preseason, Recruiting
Michigan signed a total of 21 recruits in its 2020 recruiting class, including eight that enrolled early. According to the 247Sports Composite, the class was ranked 14th in the nation, and second in the Big Ten Conference.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Schedule
Michigan was originally scheduled to play non-conference games against Washington, Ball State, and Arkansas State; and conference games against Ohio State, Maryland, and Iowa. However those games were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Big Ten Conference announced on July 9 that if the conference is to participate in a fall sports season, member schools will play a conference-only schedule. The Big Ten announced a revised schedule on August 5, which was scrapped when the conference announced postponement of the season on August 11. A new schedule was released on September 19.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Radio
Radio coverage for all games was broadcast statewide on the Michigan Sports Network and on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and online via TuneIn. The radio announcers are Jim Brandstatter with play-by-play, Dan Dierdorf with color commentary, and Doug Karsch with sideline reports.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota
On October 24, Michigan opened its season with a 49–24 victory over Minnesota in Minneapolis. Michigan retained the Little Brown Jug trophy in a rivalry that had not been contested since 2017.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota
Michigan defeated Minnesota 49–24. On Michigan's opening drive, Preston Jelen blocked Will Hart's punt and recovered the ball at Michigan's 17-yard line. On its second play from scrimmage, Minnesota scored via a 14-yard touchdown pass from Tanner Morgan to Ko Kieft. Michigan tied the score via a 70-yard touchdown run from Zach Charbonnet. The Wolverines took the lead when Donovan Jeter recovered a Tanner Morgan fumble and returned it 15-yards for a touchdown. Brock Walker narrowed the lead to 14–10 with a 29-yard field goal.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota
Michigan extended its lead to 21–10 on an eight-yard touchdown pass from Joe Milton to Ben Mason. In the second quarter, Minnesota scored on a 16-yard touchdown run from Mohamed Ibrahim. Michigan added 14 points on two four-yard touchdown runs from Hassan Haskins, which made the score 35–17 in favor of Michigan at half-time. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the third quarter via a five-yard touchdown run from Ibrahim for Minnesota and a two-yard touchdown run from Milton for Michigan. Michigan scored the only points of the fourth quarter via a five-yard touchdown run from Chris Evans.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota
In his first start at quarterback, Joe Milton completed 15 of 22 passes for 225 yards and one touchdown and rushed for 52 yards on eight carries. Ronnie Bell led the Wolverines' receivers with four catches for 74 yards. Hassan Haskins led the backs with 82 rushing yards and two touchdowns on six carries.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Minnesota
Michigan's 49 points against Minnesota are the second-most points scored in a true road game against a ranked opponent in program history, trailing only those scored in a 54–51 loss at Northwestern in 2000. It also ties for the fifth-most points in a season-opening game in program history. Michigan's 35 points in the first half were the program's most against a ranked opponent in the AP Poll era. The game's officiating crew was entirely African American, the first in the Big Ten Conference.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan State
After facing Minnesota, Michigan hosted its in-state rival, the Michigan State Spartans in their home opener, facing Michigan State back-to-back at Ann Arbor for the first time since the 1967–68 seasons, in the battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. Last season, Michigan defeated Michigan State 44–10.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan State
Michigan was upset by Michigan State 27–24. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the first quarter, on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Rocky Lombardi to Ricky White for Michigan State, and an eight-yard touchdown run from Blake Corum for Michigan. Michigan State regained the lead in the second quarter on a two-yard touchdown pass from Lombardi to Connor Heyward. Michigan responded with a 23-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin, which made the score 14–10 in favor of Michigan State at half-time. Michigan State extended its lead in the third quarter on a 27-yard field goal by Matt Coghlin.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan State
Michigan responded with a one-yard touchdown run from Corum to tie the game. Michigan State regained the lead with a 51-yard field goal by Coghlin. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a 13-yard touchdown pass from Lombardi to Connor for Michigan State and a two-yard touchdown run from Hassan Haskins for Michigan.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan State
The official attendance of 615 was the smallest football crowd in Michigan Stadium history. Graduate student kicker Quinn Nordin was successful on his first field-goal attempt of the season for 23 yards in the second quarter. It was the 41st field goal of Nordin's career, which ranks fifth among Michigan's all-time leaders.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Indiana
Following its game against Michigan State, Michigan visited the Indiana Hoosiers. Last season, Michigan defeated Indiana 39–14.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Indiana
Michigan lost to Indiana 38–21. Indiana opened the scoring in the first quarter via a 13-yard touchdown pass from Michael Penix Jr. to Miles Marshall. Michigan responded with a 37-yard touchdown pass from Joe Milton to Cornelius Johnson. Indiana re-gained the lead via a 24-yard touchdown pass from Penix to Ty Fryfogle. Indiana scored 10 points in the second quarter via a 52-yard field goal by Charles Campbell and a one-yard touchdown pass from Penix to Peyton Hendershot, which made the score 24–7 in favor of Indiana at half-time.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Indiana
The teams exchanged touchdowns in the third quarter via a 13-yard touchdown pass from Milton to Roman Wilson for Michigan and a one-yard touchdown run from Stevie Scott for Indiana. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the fourth quarter via a 21-yard touchdown pass from Milton to Ronnie Bell for Michigan and a two-yard touchdown run from Scott for Indiana.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Indiana
Michigan's loss to Indiana snapped a 24-game series win streak for the Wolverines against the Hoosiers, this was their first loss to Indiana since 1987. With three successful PATs at Indiana, kicker Quinn Nordin moved into 12th place in all-time scoring for Michigan with 237 points.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
After facing Indiana, Michigan hosted the Wisconsin Badgers. Last season, Michigan lost to Wisconsin 35–14.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Michigan lost to Wisconsin 49–11. Wisconsin scored 14 points in the first quarter via a two-yard touchdown run from Nakia Watson and a one-yard touchdown pass from Graham Mertz to Mason Stokke. Wisconsin added 14 points in the second quarter via a one-yard touchdown run from Stokke and a 10-yard touchdown run from Watson, which made the score 28–0 in favor of Wisconsin at half-time. Michigan finally got on the board in the third quarter via a 46-yard field goal by Quinn Nordin.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
The teams exchanged touchdowns via a 13-yard touchdown pass from Mertz to Jake Ferguson for Wisconsin and a 23-yard touchdown pass from Cade McNamara to Mike Sainristil and a two-point conversion pass from Giles Jackson to McNamara for Michigan. Wisconsin added 14 points in the fourth quarter via a four-yard touchdown run from Danny Davis III and a 23-yard touchdown run from Jalen Berger.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Quinn Nordin's 46-yard field goal in the third quarter was his 14th career field goal at 40-yards or longer, setting a Michigan program record. Following their loss to Wisconsin, Michigan is off to their worst four game start to a season since 1967.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers
After facing Wisconsin, Michigan traveled to Piscataway, New Jersey to face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Last season, Michigan defeated Rutgers in a blowout 52–0.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers
Michigan defeated Rutgers in triple overtime, 48–42. Rutgers opened the scoring in the first quarter via a three-yard touchdown run from Johnny Langan. Rutgers added 10 points in the second quarter via a one-yard touchdown run from Langan, and a 38-yard field goal by Valentino Ambrosio. Michigan finally got on the board later in the quarter via a 46-yard touchdown pass from Cade McNamara to Cornelius Johnson, which made the score 17–7 in favor of Rutgers at half-time.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers
Michigan added 14 points in the third quarter via a 95-yard kickoff return by Giles Jackson and a nine-yard touchdown pass from McNamara to Nick Eubanks. Rutgers added 10 points via a 61-yard touchdown pass from Noah Vedral to Bo Melton and a 42-yard field goal by Ambrosio. Michigan added 14 points in the fourth quarter via a six-yard touchdown pass from McNamara to Mike Sainristil and a nine-yard touchdown pass from McNamara to Johnson, giving Michigan their first lead of the game.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers
Rutgers responded with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Vedral to Aron Cruickshank and a Vedral two-point conversion run to tie the game and force overtime. After a scoreless first overtime period where both teams missed field goals, Rutgers scored via a 25-yard touchdown pass from Vedral to Jovani Haskins in double overtime. Michigan responded with a two-yard touchdown run from McNamara. In triple overtime, Michigan scored via a one-yard touchdown run from Hassan Haskins.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, at Rutgers
Michigan's 17-point comeback tied the third largest come-from-behind victory in program history and tied the second-biggest comeback on the road.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State
After facing Rutgers, Michigan hosted the Penn State Nittany Lions. Last season, Michigan lost to Penn State 21–28 in Penn State's annual White Out game.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Michigan lost to Penn State 27–17. Penn State opened the scoring in the first quarter via a six-yard touchdown run from Keyvone Lee. Michigan responded with a two-yard touchdown run from Hassan Haskins. Penn State scored 10 points in the second quarter via a 28-yard touchdown run from Sean Clifford and a 22-yard field goal by Jake Pinegar, which made the score 17–7 in favor of Penn State at half-time. The teams exchanged field goals in the third quarter, via a 40-yard field goal by Jake Moody for Michigan and a 33-yard field goal by Jake Pinegar for Penn State. The teams exchanged touchdowns in the fourth quarter, via a two-yard touchdown run from Haskins for Michigan and a two-yard touchdown run from Will Levis for Penn State.


2020 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Penn State
With the rest of their season cancelled, the loss to Penn State meant Michigan won no games at home for the first time in program history; the Wolverines played their first game in Ann Arbor in 1883.


2020 Michigan Wolverines softball team
The 2020 Michigan Wolverines softball team was an American college softball team that represented the University of Michigan during the 2020 NCAA Division I softball season. The Wolverines, led by head coach Carol Hutchins in her thirty-sixth season, played their home games at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On March 12, 2020, the Big Ten Conference cancelled the remainder of all winter and spring sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Michigan Wolverines softball team, Previous season
The Wolverines finished the 2019 season 45–13 overall, and 22–1 in the Big Ten, finishing in first place in their conference. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the Wolverines received an automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament after winning the 2019 Big Ten Conference Softball Tournament, and were defeated in the Regional Final by James Madison.


2020 Michigan elections
This is a list of elections in the US state of Michigan in 2020. The office of the Michigan Secretary of State oversees the election process, including voting and vote counting.


2020 Michigan elections
To vote by mail, registered Michigan voters must request a ballot by October 30, 2020. As of early October some 2,760,076 voters have requested mail ballots.


2020 Michigan elections, Federal offices, President of the United States
Nominees for the presidential election include Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Jo Jorgensen.


2020 Michigan elections, Federal offices, United States Senate
Gary Peters (incumbent, D) is running against John James (R), in addition to Marcia Squier (G), Doug Dern (Natural Law Party) and Valerie Willis (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan).


2020 Michigan elections, Federal offices, United States House of Representatives
Michigan voters will elect 14 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the general election from each of the 14 congressional districts.


2020 Michigan elections, State offices, State executive offices
There are 8 state executive offices open for election in Michigan's general election, including State Board of Education (2 seats), University of Michigan Board of Regents (2 seats), Michigan Sate University Board of Trustees (2 seats), and Wayne State University Board of Governors (2 seats).


2020 Michigan elections, State offices, State House of Representatives
There are 110 seats in Michigan's House that are up for election in the general election. The Michigan Republican Party retained control of the chamber.


2020 Michigan elections, State offices, State judiciary
11 of 25 seats on the Michigan Court of Appeals are up for election. 2 of 7 seats on the Michigan Supreme Court are up for election and one is open after an incumbent retired. Supreme Court Justice Bridget McCormack is running for reelection.


2020 Michigan elections, State offices, Polling
Each voter may select up to two candidates in the state Supreme Court general election; the top two vote-getters win the seats. Consequently, poll results in the table immediately below are displayed as the accumulation of a candidate's first and second preferences and therefore sum to 200% instead of 100%.


2020 Michigan elections, Ballot measures
There are two statewide legislatively referred constitutional amendments on the ballot for the general election:


2020 Michigan graduate students strike
The 2020 Michigan graduate students strike was a labor strike launched by the Graduate Employees' Organization, the graduate student employee union that represents approximately 2,100 graduate student instructors at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. The main cause of the strike was related to graduate students' objection to the university's plans for reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional calls were made by the union for defunding the campus police. The strike started on September 8, 2020 and was scheduled to last for four days, with a subsequent vote extending the strike for another week. Following the start of the strike, resident assistants and student employees for the university's dining services announced they would also strike over similar concerns regarding the university's COVID-19 policies.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike
On September 16, union members voted to end the strike, with work resuming the following day.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Background
Prior to the strike, graduate student instructors (GSIs) at the University of Michigan expressed objections to the university administration's plans for reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 31, members of the Graduate Employees' Organization, the graduate student employee union at the university representing approximately 2,100 GSIs, protested outside the house of President of the University of Michigan Mark Schlissel and organized a die-in. On September 7 (Labor Day), the union announced a labor strike that would start the next day following a general membership vote held the previous day that saw 80% of voters approve strike action.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Background
According to the GEO president, just under 600 members voted in favor of striking and slightly less than 100 voted against it, with some members unavailable for the vote due to being away for Labor Day weekend. The strike was scheduled to last for four days, with a vote scheduled afterwards that would extend the strike for another week if union demands were not met. A previous strike organized by GEO in 2008 had lasted only two days.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Background
Demands by the union include a universal right to work remotely, increased COVID-19 testing (including random testing) by the university, and defunding the police on campus, with 50% of the campus police's budget to be reallocated towards community programs. The Lecturers' Employee Organization (LEO), the union for lecturers at Michigan, announced on Labor Day that they support the GSIs' strike and share similar concerns over the campus's reopening policies. However, LEO officials reminded members that they would not be participating in the strike, and that any members involved in strike action would be subject to disciplinary action.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Background
In response to the call for a strike, the university highlighted that the strike would violate both the law of Michigan and the contract between the union and university signed in April 2020. Additionally, the university claimed that some of the demands from the union could not be resolved through collective bargaining or contract renegotiations. The Detroit-based alternative newspaper Metro Times called the university's actions "ironic," considering that their response came on Labor Day, a day strongly tied to the American labor movement.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
The strike began on September 8, with GSIs performing a work stoppage and picketing around the university campus. That same day, the university filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union for violating terms of their contract. Later that night, the Central Student Government Assembly, a student government at the university, unanimously passed a resolution in support of the strike, urging students to not attend classes in solidarity with the strikers.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
The next day, September 9, over 100 resident assistants at the university announced that they would also go on strike, demanding both better protections from COVID-19 and hazard pay. Additionally, graduate student unions at Harvard University and Western Michigan University expressed support for the strike, and some construction workers at the university joined striking GSIs on their picket lines. That night, the union held a general meeting where they voted to reject a proposal that had been put forward by the university that would have ended the strike.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
The proposal had been supported by GEO leadership, but was rejected by an "overwhelming majority" of the general membership, with 736 voting to reject, 428 voting to approve, and 81 abstaining. Following the rejection, the university issued a release describing the proposal in greater detail, also claiming that the strike has disrupted thousands of classes since its start and reiterating the illegality of the strike. The university also claimed that they would rescind their unfair labor practice charge and not penalize striking employees if a deal could be reached that would end the strike.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
On September 10, student employees for the university's dining services announced they would perform a walkout the next day to also protest the university's COVID-19 policies. The strike expired that same day, with a vote scheduled over the next two days that would determine if the strike would be prolonged. On September 11, about 250 protestors gathered at the Michigan Union, where multiple speeches were given on issues pertaining to the strike. By September 13, the union announced that 80% of the votes cast were in favor of extending the strike for another week.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
The next day, President Schlissel announced that the university would be seeking a restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the union through the Washtenaw County Circuit Court to stop the strike. According to the university, the union could be held in contempt of court and face civil damages if the injunction is granted. That same day, U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan voiced her support for the strikers, accusing the university of "union-busting via the courts."


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
On September 16, the GEO held a press conference on the steps of the Hatcher Graduate Library where they elaborated on some of their anti-policing demands and spoke about the support they had received on both a local and national level. The conference included several members of the university community discussing their concerns with the university's COVID-19 response. On the night of September 16, the union held a vote during a general meeting regarding a continuation of the strike. Ultimately, the union voted to end the strike with a vote of 1,074 to 239, with 66 members abstaining.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Course of the strike
Statements by the union claimed that the university made "substantial movements" on all of the union's demands, including policing reforms that had not been addressed in the university's first proposal to the union. As part of the end to the strike, the university agreed to drop its case with the Circuit Court to intervene in the work stoppage. Ultimately, the strike was the longest in GEO history since 1975.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Aftermath
On September 16, at a meeting of the faculty senate of the University of Michigan which attracted over 2,000 participants, members voted 957 to 953 on a vote of no confidence against President Schlissel, with 184 faculty members abstaining. While the vote was initially reported to have failed, the senate issued a statement on September 18 that said that, after a closer reading of Robert's Rules of Order regarding parliamentary procedure, the vote had actually passed.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Aftermath
This was the first time the faculty senate had ever voted no confidence on a president, with the senate stating that they have "exhausted all channels of communication to express their grave concerns about reopening plans" and that the president "has shown little substantial changes in policy in response to expressed concerns". The vote is a symbolic act, as the president is ultimately accountable not to the faculty, but to the Regents of the University of Michigan, who stated their support of Schlissel on September 17.


2020 Michigan graduate students strike, Aftermath
On September 17, an open letter was published by staff members of the university in which they voiced alarm at the university's response to the strike actions and stated that they "believe many of the issues GEO and other student activists are fighting for remain unresolved". The letter, which also stated support for the resident assistants' demands, was signed by 116 university staff members by September 19.


2020 Michigan's 34th House of Representatives district special election
The 2020 Michigan's 34th House of Representatives district special election was held on March 10, 2020. Democratic nominee Cynthia Neeley defeated Republican nominee Adam Ford with 91.9% of the vote.


2020 Michigan's 34th House of Representatives district special election, Background
On November 11, 2019, State Representative Sheldon Neeley was sworn in as the 94th mayor of Flint. On the same day, he resigned from his seat from the legislature. The March 10, 2020 special election was held to fill the vacancy his resignation left.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season
The 2020 Mid-American Conference football season was the 75th season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC), as part of the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season
The provisional schedule was released on February 26, 2020, with a regular season between September 3 and November 28, 2020, and the MAC Championship Game on December 5, 2020. On August 8, 2020, the MAC announced that all fall sports had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with plans to attempt play in Spring 2021. Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher stated that "there are simply too many unknowns to put our student-athletes into situations that are not clearly understood."


2020 Mid-American Conference football season
It was reported that the NIU Huskies — the conference's most successful team — were instrumental in pushing for a full cancellation of the season, and had also suggested the possibility of opting out if the MAC did decide to play. Concerns were also raised over the budgetary impacts of health protocols such as testing, especially with the cancellation of all but five games against Power Five conference opponents (which often serve as a major revenue source) due to restrictions to in-conference play only. The MAC became the first FBS conference to cancel the 2020 season entirely due to COVID-19.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season
On September 24, 2020 The MAC voted unanimously to resume the fall football season. the six-game conference-only schedule will begin on Wednesday, Nov. 4 with a full slate of games. The regular season will conclude with the East Division & West Division Champions playing in the MAC Championship Game on Friday, Dec. 18 at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich The Conference will implement a COVID-19 testing program requiring four antigen tests per week with all positive tests needing confirmation with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. Any student athlete with a positive test will enter a cardiac screening protocol. The MAC's approved COVID-19 testing protocols, including four tests per week, will begin Monday, October 5. On October 7 the MAC released the new 2020 Football schedule.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season, Previous season
In 2019, the Miami RedHawks won the east division, and the Central Michigan Chippewas won the west, both with a 6–2 conference record. In the 2019 MAC Championship Game, the RedHawks defeated the Chippewas 26–21 in overtime. The RedHawks would go on to the 2020 LendingTree Bowl, where they were defeated 27-17 by the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season, Awards and honors, MAC Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Mid-American Conference football coaches at the end of the season


2020 Mid-American Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
The 2020 College Football All-America Teams are composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), FOX Sports (FOX) College Football News (CFN), Bleacher Report (BR), Scout.com, Phil Steele (PS), SB Nation (SB), Athlon Sports, Pro Football Focus (PFF) and Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo! ).


2020 Mid-American Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. Football consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.


2020 Mid-American Conference football season, NFL Draft
The following list includes all MAC players drafted in the 2021 NFL Draft


2020 Mid-Season Streamathon
The 2020 Mid-Season Streamathon was an esports live stream event hosted by Riot Games, featuring international competitions and exhibition matches from multiple regions. It was the replacement for the 2020 Mid-Season Invitational, which was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The primary goal of the event was to raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.


2020 Mid-Season Streamathon, Mid-Season Cup
The 2020 Mid-Season Cup was an international tournament featuring the top four teams from the spring season of the LCK (South Korea) and LPL (China). Games are played online with artificially standardized ping to ensure competitive integrity. Players compete onsite at their respective league's home arenas, but without a live audience present. The tournament's total prize pool was US$600,000.


2020 Mid-Season Streamathon, Mid-Season Showdown
The 2020 Mid-Season Showdown was an international tournament featuring the top two teams from the spring season of the VCS (Vietnam) and PCS (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia; excluding Vietnam). Games are played online with artificially standardized ping to ensure competitive integrity.


2020 Middle East storms
The 2020 Middle East storms happened on 12 March 2020 and the following days, bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms, floods, and sandstorms, to northern Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, State of Palestine and Iraq. They are sometimes called "The Dragon" or the "Dragon storms" (Arabic: عاصفة التنين, romanized: `Āṣifat al-Tanīn, lit. ' The Storm of the Dragon'), a name which arose in social media. The storm system, a large severe cyclone, formed over the Nile delta and around on 12 March 2020 and over the next days moved northeast over the Middle East.


2020 Middle East storms
The storm system killed at least 21 people in Egypt.


2020 Middle East storms
It caused snow in mountain areas such as Lebanon and Syria and Iran and the Tabuk area in Saudi Arabia.


2020 Middle East storms, Impacts, Egypt
Almost 20 people died. Luxor International Airport and Alexandria port and Sharm el-Sheikh port closed.


2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team
The 2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blue Raiders played their home games at the Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and competed in the East Division of Conference USA (CUSA). They were led by 15th-year head coach Rick Stockstill.


2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Previous season
The Blue Raiders finished the 2019 regular season 4–8, 3–5 in CUSA play to finish in fifth in the East Division. They were not invited to play in any post season bowl game.


2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Preseason, CUSA media days
The CUSA Media Days will be held virtually for the first time in conference history.


2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Schedule
Middle Tennessee announced its 2020 football schedule on January 8, 2020. The 2020 schedule consists of 6 home and 6 away games in the regular season.


2020 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, Schedule
The Blue Raiders had games scheduled against Duke, Indiana State, Old Dominion, UConn, Virginia Tech, and UAB which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 Milano–Torino
The 2020 Milano–Torino was the 101st edition of the Milano–Torino cycling classic. It was held on 5 August 2020 and was rated as a 1.Pro event on the 2020 UCI Europe Tour and 2020 UCI ProSeries. Unlike previous editions of the race, which were more suited for climbers and puncheurs, this year's edition was mostly flat and favored the sprinters. The race, which started in Mesero and finished in Stupinigi, was won by French rider Arnaud Démare of Groupama–FDJ.


2020 Milano–Torino, Teams
Fourteen UCI WorldTeams, seven UCI ProTeams, and the Italian national team participated in the race. Seventeen teams entered the maximum of seven riders, while the other five teams, those being AG2R La Mondiale, Astana, Israel Start-Up Nation, Team Jumbo–Visma, and UAE Team Emirates, only entered six riders. Of the 149 riders that started the race, only three did not finish.


2020 Milan–San Remo
The 2020 Milan–San Remo was scheduled to be held on 21 March 2020, but was postponed to 8 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The postponement was made by RCS Sport on 6 March. It was the 111th edition of the Milan–San Remo one-day cycling classic in Northern Italy, and part of the 2020 UCI World Tour calendar.


2020 Milan–San Remo
Belgian rider Wout van Aert of Team Jumbo–Visma, who had won the 2020 Strade Bianche a week earlier, beat French rider Julian Alaphilippe, the defending champion, of Deceuninck–Quick-Step, in a two-up sprint to take the victory, after the duo had broken away from the peloton on the descent of the Poggio.


2020 Milan–San Remo, Teams
All nineteen UCI WorldTeams and eight UCI ProTeams were invited to the race. Each of the twenty-seven teams entered six riders each that made up the 162 riders that participated in the race, of which 149 riders finished.


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season
The 2020 Milwaukee Brewers season was the 51st season for the Brewers in Milwaukee, the 23rd in the National League, and 52nd overall. The Brewers finished the regular season 29-31 and clinched the eighth seed in the postseason, becoming the first National League team to clinch the playoffs with a losing record. This marked the first time in franchise history where the Brewers clinched a playoff berth in three consecutive years, starting with the 2018 season.


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season
On March 12, 2020, MLB announced that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the regular season would be delayed by at least two weeks in addition to the remainder of spring training being cancelled. Four days later, it was announced that the start of the season would be pushed back indefinitely due to the recommendation made by the CDC to restrict events of more than 50 people for eight weeks. On June 23, commissioner Rob Manfred unilaterally implemented a 60-game season. Players reported to training camps on July 1 in order to resume spring training and prepare for a July 24 Opening Day. The Brewers lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in two games in the 2020 National League Wild Card Series.


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Spring training
The Brewers finished spring training with a record of 10–7 (2 ties). They also had 15 games canceled, 3 due to rain, and 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spring training was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon returning to play in July 2020, the team played intra-squad scrimmages instead of playing a full complement of Spring Training games. The team flew by charter planes to their scrimmages. On July 22, they defeated the Chicago White Sox, in their only exhibition game during the restart, 5–3.


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Season standings, National League Wild Card
The Brewers had the tiebreaker edge with their record against division opponents (19–21) better than the Giants' (18–22).


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Statistics, Regular season, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; K = Strikeouts; Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage;


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Statistics, Regular season, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system
The Brewers' farm system consisted of nine minor league affiliates in 2020. The minor league season, however, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Milwaukee planned to operate a Dominican Summer League team as a co-op with the Toronto Blue Jays.


2020 Milwaukee Brewers season, Milwaukee Brewers monetary losses
A report in the Milwaukee Business Journal has estimated that the Milwaukee Brewers lost $178.3 million revenue as a result of having no fans. For 2020 Team Marketing Report has calculated 5 billion in losses for Major League Baseball.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election
The 2020 Milwaukee mayoral election was held on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, to elect the mayor for Milwaukee.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election
Municipal elections in Wisconsin are non-partisan. The non-partisan primary was held on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, to narrow the field of candidates to two.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election
Incumbent mayor Tom Barrett won reelection against state senator Lena Taylor in the general election.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election
A general election was held April 7 between Tom Barrett and Lena Taylor.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election
Barret's campaign was largely focused on his track record. Taylor challenged his track record, arguing that people of color had not sufficiently benefited from during tenure.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On March 23, citing concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Mayor Barrett sent a letter to Governor Tony Evers, State Senate Majority Leader Scott L. Fitzgerald and Speaker of the State House Robin Vos, requesting that the April 7 elections (including the mayoral election, as well as Wisconsin's presidential primaries and others races) be conducted using mail-in ballots only.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
City officials urged voters not to vote in person and to instead vote by mail with absentee ballots. On March 31, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Neil Albrecht announced that rather than the usual 180 voting sites, the election will instead have only between ten and twelve in-person voting sites. This was due to a severe lack of poll workers. By April 3, the number of in-person polling places was further reduced to only five. Ultimately, 96,712 absentee ballots were requested, and 77,729 were returned (it is not yet reported how many are valid).


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On April 1, Judge William M. Conley ruled that, due to the circumstances of the elections, absentee ballots would be allowed to be returned until April 13, despite the elections taking place on April 7. Days after, the Republican National Committee urged the Supreme Court of the United States to block this ruling. He also removed the requirement for ballots to have witness signatures, citing difficulties with regards to individuals living alone during the stay-at-home order being unable to find a witness.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Supreme Court of the United States, on April 6, overturned Conley's ruling, meaning that all absentee ballots must be turned in by the election day, and ballots without witness signatures would be invalidated. However, the Supreme Court of the United States did not overturn Conley's ruling that results would not be reported until April 13.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Governor Evers, in early April, urged the state legislature to postpone the April 7 elections in Wisconsin. However, the legislature did not take the action to do this. Despite admitting that he would violate the law by doing so, on April 6, Evers issued an executive order which, if enforced, would have postponed the April 7 elections until the tentative date of June 7. Republican leaders immediately announced that they would challenge the order in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Evers did not have the authority to postpone the elections, thus meaning that Evers' executive order was nullified, and that the elections would be held as scheduled on April 7.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
On April 4, Lena Taylor filed a lawsuit attempting to get the mayoral election moved to September 8.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
By the time the Election Day voting concluded, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht stated that despite some of the problems, the in-person voting ran smoothly.


2020 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Results
77,729 mail-in ballots were returned, and 18,803 in-person votes were cast in the city of Milwaukee.


2020 Mini Challenge UK
The 2020 Quaife Mini Challenge season was the nineteenth season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season was supposed to start on 28 March at Donington Park and end on 20 October at Donington Park. It included sixteen rounds across the UK, all the JCW Class races and 2 of the Cooper Class races support the British Touring Car Championship. The season featured the start of the JCW Mini Challenge Trophy.


2020 Mini Challenge UK
Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, the schedule was drastically reduced to five rounds starting 1/2 August.


2020 Mini Challenge UK, Calendar
Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, the new schedule is as follows:


2020 Mini Challenge UK, Championship standings
Championship points were awarded for the all finishing positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. There were bonus points awarded for Pole Position and Fastest Lap.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot
The 2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot was a reaction to the suicide of a black man who was being pursued by police for his alleged involvement in a homicide on August 26, 2020, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Unfounded rumors that Minneapolis police officers had shot the man quickly spread on social media, and set off protests, rioting, and looting in Minneapolis, which came as the city was still dealing with the aftermath of protests and riots following the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, by a white Minneapolis police officer three months prior.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot
The homicide suspect on August 26—38-year-old Eddie Sole Jr. of Minneapolis—died after he shot himself in the head as he was near a bus stop along Nicollet Mall. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office later listed his manner of death as a suicide, which was also confirmed by surveillance video footage.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot
Violence and looting the night of August 26 led to 132 arrests, damage to 72 properties in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, five fires in Minneapolis, and the injury of two police officers. Minnesota government officials amassed nearly 1,000 members of law enforcement and 400 Minnesota National Guard troops took keep the peace and calmness prevailed after August 27. Three Minnesota residents were later convicted of federal charges for an arson attack on the Target Corporation headquarters building during the riot.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Background
The initial cause of civil disorder was the suicide of a homicide suspect in downtown Minneapolis on August 26, 2020. The homicide was the 52nd of the year in the city. Many residents were still on edge from the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, when the Minneapolis Police Department had mischaracterized Floyd's death as due to "medical distress" in early statements about the incident. Protesters reacting to news of a new shooting death, that video later showed was a suicide, did not trust initial police accounts of the incident. Posts on social media websites suggested that Minneapolis police were responsible for the man's death.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Background
The civil disorder also came as part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement and protests against police brutality in 2020. Late at night on August 15 in Minneapolis, a group of approximately 50 people marched to the city's fifth police precinct station in what was initially described as a peaceful protest, but it became violent when people threw rocks at windows, threw paint on the building, and shot commercial-grade fireworks at police officers, before fleeing the scene.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Background
The August 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, an African American man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, by a police officer, led to protests and unrest that spilled into Minnesota. On August 24 in Minneapolis, a 100-person protest over Blake's shooting took place in the city's downtown area, and after the main protest group disbanded, some protesters broke windows and threatened to breach a jail facility, resulting in 11 arrests. One Minneapolis police officer suffered a broken hand during a confrontation with a demonstrator.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Background
In Minneapolis by August, the downtown workforce was at 85 percent of prior capacity, with many business closed and people working from home due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, and with fewer people on the street there were concerns about the perceptions of crime and lack of police presence.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
Eddie George Gordon, a 61-year-old from Rush City, Minnesota, died from multiple gunshot wounds while inside a parking ramp near 10th Street North and Currie Avenue West at 2 p.m. on August 26 in downtown Minneapolis. Police sources believed he had been in an altercation with a man and woman, who both fled the scene on foot. Police apprehended the female suspect, but the male suspect fled. At 6 p.m. the police had tracked him down on Nicollet Avenue and closed in for an arrest. The male suspect was later identified as Eddie Sole Jr., a 38-year-old from Minneapolis. As police forces advanced to make an arrest, Sole Jr. shot himself in the head while standing on a sidewalk outside the entrance to a Target store, just before officers reached him. Within an hour of the suicide a large crowd had gathered at the scene.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
The encounter between Sole Jr. and the police quickly sparked social media rumors about the manner of his death. At a Black Entrepreneur State Fair event on the other side of the Mississippi River in Father Hennepin Bluff Park, nearly one mile (1.6 km) away from where the death occurred, a DJ announced to the crowd that police were covering up a death with a suicide story. A group marched across the Stone Arch Bridge to downtown to protest what they believed was a police shooting. That evening protesters swelled into the city's downtown area and reached what was estimated as a crowd of 500 people.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
Police denied that they had fired weapons at Sole Jr. during pursuit and released a surveillance video of his apparent suicide to quell rumors that it was an officer involved shooting. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo sent text messages to several racial justice advocates seeking help in circulating the video, such as to Nekima Levy Armstrong who attempted to contain the spread of false information. However, some in the crowd downtown began breaking windows at nearby businesses, resulting in property destruction and looting at many stores and restaurants. As the scene downtown became more violent some in the crowd urged others stop the destruction, including a person on a megaphone who shouted, "We have the video — the man killed himself!"


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
At 9:30 p.m. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey publicly requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard to restore order. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated troops just before 11:00 p.m. and the first troops arrived downtown just before midnight. Frey imposed a citywide curfew overnight, and both Walz and Frey declared a state of emergency.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
Destruction overnight reached a total of 72 property locations in Minneapolis and four locations in neighboring Saint Paul. In Minneapolis, four businesses were set on fire, including a downtown restaurant and three other businesses located miles away from the city's downtown area. The rioting in downtown Minneapolis mostly stretched along Nicollet Mall from 5th to 12th streets, though it spread to a gas station and liquor store near Loring Park. The rioting also an effect beyond downtown Minneapolis. Several businesses in south Minneapolis, Uptown, and Dinkytown were vandalized and looted, as was a liquor store in the suburb of Brooklyn Park.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 26
Two Minneapolis police officers were seriously injured during the unrest and hospitalized, but the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. One of the injuries, captured on a bystander's video, showed an officer being hit in the head by a trash can lid and becoming unconscious. Some bystanders cheered when the object hit the officer.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 27
To prevent further rioting and looting, officials put in place a curfew for the second night, from the hours of 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following day. Nearly 1,000 members of law enforcement and 400 Minnesota National Guard troops amassed in the metro area to prevent more lawlessness. Thirty people were arrested that night, all for curfew violations. Calmness prevailed after August 27.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Events, August 28–31
State and local officials declined to issue a curfew for Friday, August 28. However, Minneapolis city officials extended the state of emergency through the weekend to allow for possible curfews, if needed to address unrest. National Guard troops and law enforcement were kept mobilized. The state of emergency ended at 8 a.m. on Monday, August 31, 2020. Officials believed that their experience with the unrest in the days after the killing of George Floyd the previous May led to a speedier response that distinguished people protesting peacefully and those causing destruction.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Homicide investigation
The investigation into the homicide of Eddie George Gordon revealed that he had been in an altercation with Eddie Sole Jr. and an unnamed woman around 2 p.m. on August 26, 2020 in the Ramp A parking garage in downtown Minneapolis. Sole Jr. pulled out a gun and shot Gordon in the head. By August 31, police sources were not sure what provoked the incident.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Homicide investigation
Both men had connections to the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center shelter next door to the parking garage, with Gordon making occasional night stays since 2017 and Sole Jr. calling it his home for the past two-and-a-half years. It was also unclear to investigators why Sole Jr. shot himself as officers closed in.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Rioting arrests and criminal charges
State and local officials arrested 132 people during the unrest that featured looting, reports of shots fired, thrown bottles at police, and the discharge of commercial grade fireworks. Twenty-six people were charged, all of whom were Minnesota residents, with home addresses in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, several suburban cities, and Saint Cloud. Four of the arrests were of people who allegedly broke into the Pixie Liquor store in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, during the unrest.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Arson of the Target Corporation building
Three men from the Twin Cities were indicted in United States district court for setting fires at the downtown headquarters of the Target Corporation on the evening of August 26. Shador T.C. Jackson, a 24-year old from Richfield, Minnesota, was accused of using a construction sign to break the glass entrance to the building. Several people went inside the building during the rioting. Jackson intentionally set a fire on a counter in the mailroom and Victor D. Edwards, a 31-year old form Saint Paul, Minnesota, added liquid accelerant to it.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Arson of the Target Corporation building
Leroy L.P. Williams, a 34-year old from Minneapolis, also entered the mailroom. Williams was a relative Eddie George Gordon who was shot and killed earlier in the day, beginning the manhunt that led to the unrest. Surveillance video captured the three men fleeing the mailroom. Williams allegedly returned to the Target building and attempted to start another fire at its entrance.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Arson of the Target Corporation building
Prior to the incident, all three defendants had felony records in Minnesota for violent crimes. Jackson and Williams pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson in connection to the August 26 incident. Jackson was sentenced in June 2021 to 33 months in prison. The charge against Edwards went before a federal jury. After a four-day trial, the jury on August 12, 2021, convicted Edwards on one count of riot and one count of arson.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Aftermath, Assault of a Minneapolis police officer
A 28-year-old man from Minneapolis faced charges in early September for burglary and assaulting a police officer by throwing a 15-pound metal garbage can lid and knocking him unconscious on August 26. The injured officer allegedly had a connection to the suspect whose vehicle was also involved in a recent burglary. The suspect said that he was eating at downtown restaurant and became angry when learning of the rumors of a possible police shooting, and he regretted being involved in the ensuing chaos. The officer was released from the hospital by early September, but underwent continued treatment and therapy.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Short-term impact, Local economy
At the time of the unrest, downtown Minneapolis businesses were said to be struggling from closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest after the killing of George Floyd the previous May. For the dozens of business that were broken into and looted, the August riot was considered another challenging economic setback. Some commentators speculated that the unrest and rioting in Minneapolis in 2020 could mark a decades-long period of stagnation and decline, similar to what cities such as Los Angeles, Detroit, and Newark experienced after historic unrest.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Short-term impact, Local economy
The five businesses set on fire on August 26, 2020, included the Target Corporation building, Brits Pub on the Nicollet Mall in downtown, and three businesses in south Minneapolis—a Tires Plus store, a Walgreens drug store, and the China Wok restaurant. The south Minneapolis area was the epicenter of heavy rioting after Floyd's death in late May 2020, including where a police station was torched. Kam Talebi, owner of the downtown Brit's Pub, remarked about broader conversations to address the unrest in Minneapolis, "I hope within that there's a priority of safety for residents and the businesses. It's just tough to be able to operate right now in downtown Minneapolis." Brit's Pub was looted and much of the interior destroyed by fire. It reopened seven months later after extensive clean up and refurbishing.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Short-term impact, Suicide video controversy
As protesters gathered in downtown Minneapolis the evening of August 26, the Minneapolis Police Department sent out a message via the Twitter website that contained an embedded video: "*WARNING: This video contains graphic images. This evening, a murder suspect committed suicide as police approached them at 8th & Nicollet. No officer weapons were fired. This is a tragedy for our community that is still hurting." Release of the video generated controversy though allowable under a set special circumstances in Minnesota state law.


2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot, Short-term impact, Suicide video controversy
Some Minneapolis officials believed that quick release of the video was necessary to stop rumors of a police shooting. City officials had to weigh pain of people seeing the graphic content with their intention of stopping rioting and looting. Minneapolis police and many media outlets took down postings of the video later the same evening.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
The U.S. city of Minneapolis featured officially and unofficially designated camp sites in city parks for people experiencing homelessness that operated from June 10, 2020, to January 7, 2021. The emergence of encampments on public property in Minneapolis was the result of pervasive homelessness, mitigations measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota, local unrest after the murder of George Floyd, and local policies that permitted encampments. At its peak in the summer of 2020, there were thousands of people camping at dozens of park sites across the city.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
Many of the encampment residents came from outside of Minneapolis to live in the parks. By the end of the permit experiment, four people had died in the city's park encampments, including the city's first homicide victim of 2021, who was stabbed to death inside a tent at Minnehaha Park on January 3, 2021.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
The encampment crisis grew out of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, while under arrest by a Derek Chauvin, a White officer from the Minneapolis Police Department on Memorial Day on May 25, 2020. A period of intense protests, riots, and property destruction from May 26 to 30, 2020—largely concentrated on East Lake Street in Minneapolis—resulted in the deployment of the Minnesota National Guard and nightly curfews to keep demonstrators off the streets.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
Though homeless people were exempt from curfew orders, volunteers helped about 200 unsheltered persons take up residence at an unoccupied Sheraton Hotel in the city's Midtown neighborhood. After several overdoses, one death, violence, and fires, occupants of the hotel were evicted by the hotel's owner, and volunteers helped establish an encampment in the city's Powderhorn Park. Growth of the Powderhorn Park encampment and several safety issues resulted in controversy, and by July 2020 the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board established a permit process to restrict the size of camps.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
By mid July 2020, the situation was described as having grown out the of control of park board officials, as encampments spread to unpermitted park sites and other locations throughout the city. Like the camp at Powderhorn Park, many other camp sites had shootings, rampant drug use, sexual assaults, sex trafficking, and other safety issues. The city's social programs attempted to connect people experiencing homeless with services, including establishing three new shelters, but shelter beds remained available during the project. City officials adopted a de-escalation for disbanding camps due to the ongoing civil unrest, and when they attempted to remove tents at non-permitted sites, they faced opposition from a sanctuary movement and protest groups.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments
Encampments appeared at 44 park sites during the summer months, according to the park board, or at as many as 55 park sites, according to news media reports. Park board officials set a deadline to close all encampments by October 2020, and then shifted the deadline to before the onset of freezing temperatures brought on by winter weather. Fifty-three tents, however, remained at three encampments by early December 2020 as some encampment residents declined available shelter space. It was not until January 7, 2021, that the last official encampment, at the city’s Minnehaha Park, closed.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is an elected, semi-autonomous local agency that governs the city's park system. Residents in the city elect nine park board commissioners, from six park districts and three at-large, to four-year terms. In 2017, voters elected Chris Meter (District 1), Kale Severson (District 2), AK Hassan (District 3), Jono Cowgill (District 4), and Steffanie Musich (District 5) to district seats, and they elected Meg Forney, LaTrisha Vetaw, and Londel French to at-large seats. The commissioners elected Cowgill as their board president and Vetaw as their vice president.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
In 2019, the park board commissioners selected Al Bangoura as the park's superintendent to lead a staff of 580 full-time and 1,500 part-time employees, manage an annual budgetary resources of $125 million, and oversee the Minneapolis Park Police Department, a separate law enforcement entity from the Minneapolis Police Department. By the 2020s, the Minneapolis park system had been consistently considered among the most well-regarded in the United States.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, Homelessness in Minnesota
A study by the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, a Saint Paul-based non-profit organization, counted 11,371 people in Minnesota were experiencing homelessness on one night in October 2018. Wilder also estimated that nearly19,600 people experienced homelessness on any given night in the state, and that a total of 50,600 experienced homelessness in Minnesota at some point during 2018. Black and American Indian people were disproportionately affected. Approximately 66% of those homeless in Minnesota were estimated to be People of Color.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, Homelessness in Minnesota
Hennepin County estimated in 2019 that it had 10,000 experiencing homeless with 4,000 of them in its largest city, Minneapolis, and it had as many as 800 people living on the street in the county. A report by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism said by that January 2020 there were 642 people who were unsheltered in Minneapolis, an increase from 603 the prior year and five-fold increase from 2015.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota
The first confirmed case in Minnesota of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the coronavirus disease, was reported on March 1, 2020. After detecting the first confirmed case of community spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the state, Governor Tim Walz announced the first of several executive orders to address the COVID-19 pandemic.in Minnesota. On March 16, 2020, Executive Order 20-04 closed all non-essential businesses and services until March 27, 2020; subsequent orders required state residents to shelter in place and extended the timeframe for statewide closures for schools and non-essential services. On March 23, 2020, Executive Order 20-14 suspended home evictions during the pandemic. On May 13, 2020, Executive Order 20-55 prohibited sweeps or disbandment of homeless encampments.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, Background, Civil disorder in Minneapolis
Protest emerged on May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis as a response to murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man who died on May 25 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for several minutes during an arrest. Over a three-night period from May 27 to May 29, Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage from rioting and looting—largely along a 5-mile (8.0 km) stretch of Lake Street south of downtown—including the demise of the city's third police precinct building, which was overrun by demonstrators and set on fire. By early June 2020, approximately 1,300 properties in Minneapolis were damaged by the rioting and looting, of which nearly 100 of which were entirely destroyed.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
In early April 2020, several people experiencing homelessness took up residence at a small encampment of about a dozen tents in Minneapolis under the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge, near Hiawatha Avenue and the Midtown Greenway bike and pedestrian trail. The encampment garnered the nickname "camp quarantine" as residents felt safer from the coronavirus by living outside on public property than staying in crowded shelters, and they preferred to hang around the camps as the places they had previously visited during the day, such as libraries and public buildings, were closed under the state's public health mitigation of COVID-19.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
With fears of the coronavirus on the rise, and 40 cased being reported in homeless shelters, the encampment grew to approximately 100 residents by May 2020. An initial emergency executive order by Governor Tim Walz embolden those dwelling at the encampment as it prohibited local government agencies from closing camps. To limit growth of the camp, Metro Transit officials erected a fence around it, but declined to clear the camp fearing that action might pose greater health and safety risk.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
Officials also wanted to avoid repeat of the “Wall of the Forgotten Natives,”  a sprawling encampment in 2018 along a Hiawatha Avenue sound barrier that had near-daily occurrences of overdoses and violence. Walz's revised executive order in early May 2020 allowed encampments to be cleared if they "reached a size or statutes" and posed a health and safety risk to people living there.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, died while being pinned to the ground by Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis policer who knelt on Floyd's neck as he pled for his life and lost consciousness. Video of Floyd's murder quickly circulated in the media. Protests that emerged on May 26 were initially peaceful, but devolved into widespread rioting and looting, largely concentrated on East Lake Street in Minneapolis over the next several days. Many businesses closed and boarded up their windows and doors to prevent looting and property destruction.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
On May 28, 2021, Governor Walz activated the Minnesota State Patrol and the Minnesota National Guard, in what would becomes its largest deployment since World Ward II, to restore order in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. On May 29, 2021, Walz imposed a metropolitan-wide curfew to keep people off the streets from the hours of 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an overlapping city curfew to align with the governor's order. Those breaking curfew faced fines of up to $1,000 or 90 days in jail.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
Curfews were enforced with mass arrests, including of several journalists, and groups of demonstrators were fired upon by state patrol officers with less-lethal rounds. The curfew orders were originally intended to last two nights, but were extended due to continued unrest. As until nights grew calmer, the curfews finally ended on June 5, 2021.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Camp quarantine"
People experiencing homelessness were exempt from curfew orders, but worries grew that residents of encampments could be swept up in the unrest and potentially shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas. A non-profit organization helped approximately 70 people from the Hiawatha Avenue encampment move to a hotel outside Minneapolis, but some residents remained behind in the encampment, many of who eventually made their way to an activist-led shelter at the Sheraton Midtown Hotel.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Sanctuary hotel"
In 2020, the Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel was a four-story, 136-room hotel on Chicago Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Minneapolis, abutting the Midtown Greenway bike and pedestrian trail, and located a block north of East Lake Street. Owned by Jay Patel since February of that year, the hotel was a franchise of the international Sheraton Hotel chain.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Sanctuary hotel", Activists occupy hotel
As protests and riots spread in Minneapolis after Floyd's murder, including widespread property destruction along the East Lake Street corridor and destruction of the nearby third precinct police station, Patel evacuated guests from the hotel the night of May 30, 2020, as his insurance company would no longer cover the hotel building if people continued to occupy it.


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Sanctuary hotel", Activists occupy hotel
Activists who worked with unhoused people, and who were also backed by donations of an anonymous person, negotiated to buy a block of rooms for people displaced by the unrest. In agreeing to pay for the rooms, they suggested to Patel that he convince the insurance company that the hotel was taken over by activists without permission. They also said they would help protect the building from arson and looting that had occurred in the area the previous nights. After receiving approval from Patel, the hotel quickly filled to capacity with approximately 190 people who had previously been staying at encampments. As many as 150 volunteers worked shifts to serve food, clean rooms, and operate the hotel, and they gave they project the monikers "sanctuary hotel" and "share-a-ton".


2020 Minneapolis park encampments, "Sanctuary hotel", Activists occupy hotel
Many volunteers knew each other from prior housing advocacy work in the area. It was reported that though they were excited for the experimental project that was free of government restrictions, though it was established during a chaotic period of time in Minneapolis, and volunteers were concerned that managing the project would be challenging. Some organizers believed that eventually government agencies would take over the project. The volunteers at the hotel were considered a group of mostly White, middle-class activists, but included social service and health care workers. Many of the hotel residents suffered from addiction or mental illness.