Running for Shoreview City Council never came to Dave Olson's mind when he showed up at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on a Saturday afternoon in June.
Dr. Olson, a physician with the Gophers, Vikings and Twins, was invited by some of his former players he worked with to join hundreds of people marching down Highway 96, making a statement for social injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Supporting a local rally turned into taking a bigger step toward potentially giving people of color in his town a voice where they've never had one before.