Created: June 30, 2021 05:57 PM
The investigation into a deadly Minneapolis Police shooting from nearly a decade ago may soon be reopened over concerns that some evidence in the case may have been overlooked.
5 INVESTIGATES obtained the letter sent by Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, suggesting state investigators take another look at the fatal shooting of Terrance Franklin in May of 2013.
At the time, MPD investigated its own deadly shootings. The agency cleared the five officers involved in Franklin’s death of any wrongdoing and a grand jury did not bring any charges against Lucas Peterson, the officer who pulled the trigger.
Minneapolis police union files complaints against city attorney
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The union representing rank-and-file Minneapolis Police officers has filed ethics complaints against Minneapolis City Attorney Jim Rowader.
The complaints with the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility and the City of Minneapolis Ethical Practices Board, concern comments Rowader made in a Star Tribune Op/Ed on February 8, under the headline, Counterpoint: Why I’m one of many seeking justice in Minneapolis.
In that piece, Rowader explains why he left his job as a corporate attorney for Target eight months ago to become City Attorney in order to be a catalyst for change after the murder of George Floyd.
Prosecutor in Daunte Wright s death says he ll not be swayed by critics
Damik Bryant touches the casket of his brother Daunte Wright as its wheeled out following funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police
Activists demanding a murder charge instead of manslaughter.
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 3:06 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The day Daunte Wright was laid to rest, a small group of demonstrators gathered outside prosecutor Pete Orput s suburban home and, with microphones and a loudspeaker, demanded he file murder charges against the police officer who killed the 20-year-old Black motorist.