Print this article Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens during his trial in Minneapolis, Minn., April 6, 2021 in this courtroom sketch.
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California police have arrested three women accused of vandalizing the former home of a retired police officer with a pig’s head and blood smear last month after the officer testified on behalf of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder trial.
The Santa Rosa police department said that it appeared the “suspects in this vandalism were targeting” the retired officer, Barry Brodd, for his testimony, in which he said Chauvin was justified in his use of force. Brodd is no longer a California resident and has not lived in the home for years, so it “appears the victim was falsely targeted,” authorities said.
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Three women were arrested after police said they played a role in leaving a pig s head at the past home of a former officer who testified in defense of Derek Chauvin.
Rowan Dalbey, 20, Kristen Aumoithe, 34, and Amber Lucas, 35, were apprehended in California on Wednesday after the execution of a series of search warrants, the Santa Rosa Police Department wrote.
The trio, on April 19, allegedly threw the decapitated pig s head at the former residence of Barry Brodd, who said Chauvin was justified and objectively reasonable in kneeling on George Floyd s neck for over nine minutes on May 25, 2020. The victim’s house was the previous residence of Mr. Barry Brodd, police wrote. Mr. Brodd recently testified for the defense in Minneapolis Police Officer Derrick [sic] Chauvin’s trial. It appears the suspects in this vandalism were targeting Mr. Brodd for his testimony. Mr. Brodd has not lived at the residence for a number of years and is no longer a resi
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FILE - In this early Saturday, April 17, 2021, file photo, a Santa Rosa downtown district maintenance worker cleans the Agraria hand sculpture vandalized with what appeared to be blood outside the Santa Rosa Plaza in Santa Rosa, Calif. Three women have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the one-time Northern California home of a former police officer who testified on behalf of the officer convicted of killing George Floyd by splashing pig blood on it and leaven a pig s head near the front porch. The women were also charged with smearing pig blood on the large hand statue in Santa Rosa Plaza and leaving a picture of a pig reading Oink Oink. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP, File)Kent Porter/AP