A candidate has thrown his hat into the ring to be the next Hennepin County attorney, a little over a month after Mary Moriarty announced she won't be running for re-election .

On Wednesday, Hao Nguyen announced his campaign in Minneapolis.

Nguyen, who has been endorsed by Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, among others, says he wants to make sure "residents never feel like they must choose between feeling safe and being treated fairly."

Before going to law school, Nguyen says he worked as a correctional officer, a police officer and a sheriff's deputy. A LinkedIn profile for Nguyen says he attended multiple schools, including St. Cloud State, Mitchell Hamline and Stanford University, and he currentl

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