A coronavirus survey in Minnesota was stopped after multiple cases of residents “intimidating and shouting racial and ethnic slurs” at public health workers who had been going door to door, the state Department of Health said.
In an episode in Eitzen, Minnesota, a city of 250 people about 170 miles southeast of Minneapolis along the border with Iowa, a team of workers was “surrounded by three men who refused to accept their identification as public health workers,” Dan Huff, an assistant commissioner at the Minnesota Health Department, said in a statement.
One of the men was armed and the men used “racial epithets” during the confrontation, he said.
“The workers felt that the intention of the men was to intimidate them,” Huff said.
He said there was a “series of troubling incidents across Minnesota,”…