Family seeks charges against Minneapolis cop in fatal chase
3 years, 5 months ago

Family seeks charges against Minneapolis cop in fatal chase

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — The family of an innocent motorist who was killed when a Minneapolis police officer crashed into him while chasing a suspect called Friday for the officer to be fired and prosecuted. Frazier’s relatives plan to sue the city over his death, said one of their lawyers, Jeff Storms, who works with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who negotiated a $27 million settlement for the Floyd family. “It’s just so messed up,” Orlando Frazier, Leneal Frazier’s brother, said at a news conference with other family members and supporters outside City Hall. “This is about race,” Storms said, referring to a 2016 USA Today investigation that found that African Americans — innocent bystanders and those fleeing officers — have been killed in police chases at a rate nearly three times higher than everyone else nationwide. “When someone says this isn’t about race, that’s ignoring the various systematic race issues that are at play here — how law enforcement polices Black communities, the aggression with which law enforcement polices in particular our Black brothers and sisters,” Storms said.

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Former Minneapolis police officer sentenced to nine months after fatally crashing into a man
1 year, 5 months ago

Former Minneapolis police officer sentenced to nine months after fatally crashing into a man

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in the county workhouse, with eligibility for electric home monitoring in three months, after the officer pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide in a high-speed chase that killed a bystander two years ago. Frazier, a father of six children, was an uncle of Darnella Frazier, who shot …

Minneapolis cop charged in chase that killed innocent driver
3 years, 2 months ago

Minneapolis cop charged in chase that killed innocent driver

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis police officer has been charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide for a crash in July that killed an innocent motorist while the officer was pursuing a stolen vehicle, a prosecutor announced Friday. An accident reconstruction report said the fatal collision “can be attributed to the Defendant for failure to operate his vehicle with due regard for …

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