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Nancy B. Miller, Minneapolis
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The front-page headline in Monday s paper about the officer-involved shooting in Brooklyn Center was misleading and inflammatory, something we certainly don t need in the current environment ( Brooklyn Center police shoot man during traffic stop ). The takeaway from the headline is that cops are now shooting people for traffic violations. It is not until the fifth paragraph of the article that one learns that the police were reacting to an outstanding warrant for the driver and were attempting to arrest him for this warrant, which was pre-existing and had nothing to do with the alleged traffic violation. Whether or not the police reaction to the driver s attempt to leave was appropri