Now Mr. Thompson is facing calls to clear up his residency quagmire and apologize to police after the release of body-camera footage from the stop that showed nothing out of the ordinary, even as the Democratic lawmaker goes on trial this week on a 2019 obstruction charge.
“Representative Thompson’s false allegation of racism to deflect from his own egregious behavior is unconscionable and completely unjustifiable,” said St. Paul Police Federation President Mark Ross in a statement. “His audacious claims against a St. Paul police officer are simply nonsense.”
In a lengthy statement to the Pioneer Press, Mr. Thompson did not apologize but referred to Philando Castile, the 32-year-old Black man shot and killed in a 2016 traffic stop in St. Anthony, Minnesota, that resulted in a $3 million settlement with the Castile family.
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Pa. firefighters rerouted to Minnesota to combat wildfires in the Superior National Forest PennLive.com 8 hrs ago
That trip to Idaho last week for Pennsylvania firefighters got sidetracked in a hurry.
A crew of 20 firefighters, consisting of a mix of Department of Conversation and Natural Resources (DCNR) personnel and volunteers from Harrisburg, left July 7 for Boise as fire season in the western United States has started quickly.
But soon after they left, they were rerouted to the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, where they have been fighting fires since they arrived.
Matt Reed, of the DCNR Bureau of Forestry and the point of contact for the crew mobilization, said it’s unknown whether the crew will spend part or all of their 14 days there before they are replaced by a new crew.