The teenager who filmed the murder of George Floyd last summer wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that one of her own family members had been killed by a Minneapolis police officer. Darnella Frazier, the 18-year-old who was given a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for the video, said that her uncle, Leneal Lamont Frazier, had been killed when his car was struck by a police officer speeding down a residential road in pursuit of a robbery suspect. “It’s not fair how the police can just go around killing people,” Frazier wrote. “You took an innocent life trying to catch someone else.”
Attempted reforms over racial profiling have led to yet another chapter in the long line of attempts to cleanse policing in the United States of its persistent afflictions an ongoing exercise in reform that never ends.
Inside the Secretive Legal Process That Can Shield Police From Charges
Grand jury minutes in the investigation into Daniel Prude’s death reveal the many ways the criminal justice system struggles when prosecuting the police.
The circumstances of Mr. Prude’s encounter with police were revealed months after his death, and prompted vigils and protests in Rochester and beyond.Credit.Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times
May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Her voice heavy with emotion, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, stepped onto a church dais in Rochester in February to announce that a grand jury had declined to indict the police officers who were involved in the death of a Black man in their custody.