Defense counsel will have an opportunity to review portions of the internal affairs file of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper accused of testifying under oath to having video footage he
Roughly a year after covering protests that followed
George Floyd’s murder, a Black security officer for the CNN broadcast team reporting live from Minneapolis sued the Minnesota State Patrol troopers who arrested him in an incident his lawyers call racially motivated.
On May 30, 2020,
Omar Jimenez, who was arrested on air a day earlier.
Michael Cooper, a former Illinois trooper, being interviewed by ABC 7 Chicago in Nov. 2020.
Both men are Black, and Cooper’s lawyers claim that the fact both were targeted for arrest was no accident.
“The selective arresting of Black media members was not coincidental,” his lawyer
Jeffrey S. Storms wrote in an 11-page complaint. “It was intentional and racially motivated.”
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Jun 1, 2021 | 12:42 PM
MINNEAPOLIS – A Black man who worked as a security guard for a CNN crew covering protests in Minneapolis following George Floyd’s death last summer is suing two Minnesota State Patrol officers, accusing them of violating his civil rights and unlawful detention, his attorneys announced Tuesday.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court on behalf of Michael Cooper, a 64-year-old retired veteran of the Illinois State Police. Cooper was jailed for nearly 20 hours on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and violating a curfew, but he was never charged, the complaint says.