The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association on October 30 sent a complaint to Gov. Tim Walz about a book that was used for a 4th-grade assignment in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district. The book, Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice, follows two families—one white, one black—as they discuss the police shooting of a Black man in their community. The MPPOA, which represents 10,500 police officers in Minnesota, argues that the book contains language that “encourages children to fear police officers as unfair, violent, and racist” and called on the state to no longer recommend it for elementary school teaching.