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After Chauvin s conviction for Floyd murder, DOJ weighs charging him for 2017 incident involving Black teen: Source
The judge in Chauvin s murder trial didn t let lawyers bring up the incident.
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DOJ reportedly looking into 2017 incident between Chauvin and Black teen
The DOJ’s investigation of the ex-cop is reportedly looking at a past policing incident where Derek Chauvin allegedly held down a 14-year-old boy with his knee for nearly 17 minutes. Court TV via ABC News
Late last year, as a team of Minnesota state prosecutors was preparing for the trial that would ultimately convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd, they received a series of videos depicting Chauvin s handling of another case three years earlier that by their own description shocked them.
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Image from May 25, 2020, shows bystanders, including Darnella Frazier, third from right, filming as police officer Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of George Floyd.
Photograph by Minneapolis Police camera
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, called the bystanders who bore witness to George Floyd’s murder “a bouquet of humanity.”
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, called the bystanders who bore witness to George Floyd’s murder a bouquet of humanity.
He gave a nod to prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell, standing behind him at Tuesday’s post-verdict news conference, for coining the phrase.
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By - Associated Press - Friday, April 23, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota recorded its 100th traffic death of the year on Wednesday, marking the earliest point in a year that the total has hit triple-digits since 2016.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported two teenagers were killed in a crash Thursday near Alexandria, bringing the statewide count to at least 102 as of Friday morning.
According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Office of Traffic Safety, 20 more people have died on the roads than at the same point last year.