A “Police Shooting” In Minneapolis [Updated]
Last night Minneapolis police officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect whom they had stopped in his vehicle, and the suspect, now identified as Dolal Idd, was killed. The incident immediately became national news. The New York Times was at first hopeful:
A Minneapolis police officer shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on Wednesday evening, the first killing by a member of the department since George Floyd’s death in May, a police spokesman said.https://t.co/WvyfxHo77T
Although, if you actually follow the link, the first thing you see in the Times story is that “[t]he chief said witnesses indicated that the man had fired first.”
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Bayle Gelle, of Eden Prairie, holds a phone with a photo of his 22-year-old son, Dolal Idd, in south Minneapolis on Thursday. (Chao Xiong/Star Tribune via AP)
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) Minneapolis police released body camera footage Thursday of a fatal exchange of gunfire with a Black man that brought protests back to South Minneapolis Wednesday night.
The slain man, who police say opened fire on officers first, was identified by his father Thursday morning as 23-year-old Dolal Idd, a member of the Twin Cities metro’s large Somali community. Police have yet to confirm that identification.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said that gunfire erupted during a traffic stop of a felony suspect Wednesday evening about a mile east of Cup Foods.
Minneapolis is grappling with a surge in crime as bodycam video of George Floyd s arrest is released to the public; Mike Tobin reports.
Prosecutors handling the Minneapolis case involving four former police officers charged in the death of George Floyd have asked that the trial be delayed by three months, citing coronavirus concerns, according to a report.
In a recently filed court motion, prosecutors cited the COVID-19 pandemic and the amount of time needed before enough people are vaccinated and health risks are sufficiently diminished as their reason for the request, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Former federal prosecutor Doug Burns shares expectations on how the trial will proceed.
Dec 30, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minneapolis’ mayor and police chief on Tuesday announced changes in the city’s disciplinary processes for police officers in an effort to make it easier to hold them accountable for bad behavior.
Mayor Jacob Frey and Chief Medaria Arradondo, in their latest initiative to change department practices in the wake of George Floyd’s death, said the city attorney’s office would be more deeply involved in misconduct investigations as soon as they begin, helping to guide them and to analyze evidence.
Frey said more than 50 percent of all disciplinary cases are either reduced or overturned, with arbitrators typically citing due process concerns such as faulty investigation. He called that unacceptable.