The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.
Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
"While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."
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Resisting racist police violence and voter suppression, and the beat goes on
...this is not simply the story of one “rogue cop.” It is a window into the anti-Black violence perpetrated routinely by police in this country, as part of a brutal and racist system.
The debate over policing in the wake of Floyd’s death will last beyond Chauvin's trial and has already been shaped by what happened last May in Minneapolis.
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