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WASHINGTON — The two sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a Black man while assigned to a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force had been told they could not use their body-worn cameras, despite a change in Justice Department policy to allow cameras months before the shooting. The shooting of Winston Boogie Smith Jr. last…
WASHINGTON — The two sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a Black man while assigned to a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force had been told they could not use their body-worn cameras, despite a change in Justice Department policy to allow cameras months before the shooting. The shooting of Winston Boogie Smith Jr. last week has sparked nights of protests in Minneapolis — a city still reeling from the death of George Floyd at the hands of police — and is raising questions about the implementation of a Justice Department policy change that shifted away from its longstanding ...
Copy shortlink: Another deadly weekend unfolded Saturday in violence-weary Minneapolis, where three people were fatally shot overnight in different parts of the city, two of them while watching illegal street racing. In the third homicide, which happened downtown, the suspect was wounded by gunfire from a Metro Transit officer. The trio of overnight deaths brought the number of homicides in Minneapolis to 38 for the year. That total, for a period of just over five months, also includes the death of Winston Smith, 32, who was fatally shot by a federal fugitive task forc...
Earlier vigils and rallies were larger and peaceful.
Three people were killed in separate shootings in Minneapolis this weekend, The Associated Press reported on Sunday. Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson John Elder said that officers responded to the three incidents on Saturday morning. In the first incident, a woman died at a nearby hospital after being shot on the 2200 block of N. 2nd Street in Minneapolis. Elder said the deceased woman wasn't an intended target in that shooting....