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Mike Elliott takes the oath of office as the city's new mayor with city clerk Barb Suciu, right, during Elliot's inauguration ceremony, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, at the Brooklyn Center Community Center, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Elliott is the city's first Black and first Liberian American mayor. Elliott, who emigrated from Liberia as a child, is finding just how difficult it is to turn the page on the nation’s racial history as he handles the fallout from a police shooting. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)

Mike Elliott takes the oath of office as the city's new mayor with city clerk Barb Suciu, right, during Elliot's inauguration ceremony, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, at the Brooklyn Center Community Center, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Elliott is the city's first Black and first Liberian American mayor. Elliott, who emigrated from Liberia as a child, is finding just how difficult it is to turn the page on the nation’s racial history as he handles the fallout from a police shooting. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)

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