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Prathaan/iStock(MINNEAPOLIS) A Minnesota judge is considering whether to drop charges against an alleged drug dealer after his lawyer claimed Minneapolis law enforcement officers destroyed critical evidence in a panic prompted by a blaze and takeover of another police department precinct during a 2020 protest over the murder of George Floyd. An attorney for 36-year-old Walter Power argued during a court hearing on Wednesday that Minneapolis police officers destroyed a search warrant obtained on Power's home that prosecutors said resulted in the seizure of 3,000 doses of the painkiller oxycodone and other illegal drugs. Power has pleaded not guilty to a charge of felony first-degree sale of drugs. "Those officers made that decision. I think what's difficult with this case is we all have to live with that decision," Power's attorney, public defender Elizabeth Karp, said during Wednesday's hearing on her motion to dismiss the case, according to the Minneapo