# Crossroads Center attack *2016 attack in St. Cloud, Minnesota* The **Crossroads Center attack** was a 2016 attack at the [[Crossroads Center]] in [[St. Cloud]], Minnesota.[^1] What the record holds about the event concerns its aftermath. A [[Star Tribune]] editorial credited the city's longtime mayor with helping St. Cloud avoid civil unrest after the attack.[^1] The record cited here gives the year of the attack. It does not establish the exact date, the number of people harmed, the identity of the attacker, the method, or any charging outcome, and this article does not supply them.[^1] ## Who The Star Tribune editorial board published an editorial titled *Kudos to St. Cloud's longtime mayor*. It credited the mayor's relationships with helping the city avoid civil unrest after the 2016 attack.[^1] The editorial quoted the mayor on having "the cellphone numbers of all the individuals I needed to talk to," and it cited his 987 town halls and his monthly "dinners with strangers."[^1] The project's validated dossier identifies the mayor credited by the editorial as Kleis.[^1] ## When The attack took place in 2016. The record does not give a month or day.[^1] ## Where The attack took place at the Crossroads Center in St. Cloud.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue record holds one entry on the event, AI-Stearns-060, in its Stearns package. The entry accepts the outcome that the Star Tribune editorial board credited to the mayor.[^1] The entry then argues that the outcome rests on a governance model with one point of failure, because "no successor inherits a phone book."[^1] It pairs the editorial with a presidential action that the White House published in March 2025. Its stated ground for the pairing is that "institutional capacity held in one person's contacts is not institutional capacity."[^2] This is the entry's argument. It is not a finding of any court or agency. ## Notes [^1]: Star Tribune editorial board, *Kudos to St. Cloud's longtime mayor* (date not given in the record) — credits the mayor's relationships with helping St. Cloud avoid civil unrest after the 2016 Crossroads Center attack; quotes the mayor on having the cellphone numbers of those he needed to talk to; cites 987 town halls and monthly "dinners with strangers." https://www.startribune.com/editorial-kudos-to-st-clouds-longtime-mayor/600363640 [^2]: The White House, presidential action (March 2025) — the federal document that at-issue entry AI-Stearns-060 uses as its anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/