Through that work I saw higher ed’s community outreach in a new way. As a higher ed journalist, I had covered this part of universities’ missions before, but I had never seen it from the community perspective. That’s why Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara apologized to the Somali community for comments he made connecting “East African kids” to crime last November. The two CBP officers who killed Pretti have been placed on administrative leave, and the agency’s “commander at large,” Greg Bovino, has been demoted back to his old job in California. Hopefully the foundations the researchers and community leaders have laid mean residents won’t be starting from square one.