Julie Nelson, the veteran local anchor with a calming and earnest presence, stepped into the breach during the protests after George Floyd’s killing, among the first local journalists to call Minneapolis and state officials to account for the breakdown of civil order and lack of accessibility or answers. If more disorder erupts as a result of the upcoming March trial of the police officers accused in Floyd’s murder, Nelson’s tours at the anchor desk will be where many of us turn for hard-nosed questions.