Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stated Thursday the town will overview its police pursuit coverage after a chase that ended with an officer hitting and killing an harmless motorist.
Frey known as the crash that killed 40-year-old Leneal Frazier early Tuesday “a horrific tragedy.” Frazier was an uncle of Darnella Frazier, {the teenager} who captured cellphone video of George Floyd s dying in Might 2020 as he was being arrested by Minneapolis police.
“Darnella, Leneal’s household and Minneapolis’ Black neighborhood have borne the burden of extra trauma over the past 12 months than anybody, not to mention any younger particular person, ought to be anticipated to endure in a lifetime,” Frey stated in a press release.
Frey stated the pursuit coverage can be evaluated even because the State Patrol and the division examine the crash.
Darnella Frazier stated in a Fb submit that Leneal Lamont Frazier died early Tuesday after his automobile was struck by the squad automotive that police stated was pursuing one other driver linked to a number of robberies. Frazier was not concerned within the pursuit and his niece questioned why police have been conducting a high-speed chase on a residential highway.
In line with police, the squad automotive and two different automobiles collided about 12:30 a.m. after the suspect fled from a site visitors cease. Leneal Frazier was taken to North Memorial Well being, the place he later died.
Police recognized the officer concerned as Brian Cummings.
The Star Tribune reviews that Minneapolis police up to date their pursuit coverage in 2019 after pursuits rose sharply over three years. It says police might not provoke a pursuit and should break off a pursuit if it “poses an unreasonable danger to the officers, the general public or passengers of the automobile being pursued who could also be unwilling contributors.”
The coverage reads that officers can solely give chase in conditions through which they consider a suspect has dedicated or is about to commit “a severe and violent felony or gross misdemeanor.”
The coverage additionally permits for a pursuit if the suspect’s driving is “so flagrantly reckless that the motive force would pose an imminent and life-threatening hazard to the general public if not apprehended.”
Police spokesman John Elder stated earlier this week that the chase “match the standards.”
Darnell Frazier was 17 when she recorded the arrest of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, on Might 25, 2020. Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin who held his knee to Floyd’s neck as Floyd was handcuffed and face down on the road, was convicted and sentenced to 22 1/2 years in jail. The three different former officers who have been on the scene are attributable to stand trial in March. All 4 additionally face federal civil rights prices.
She was given a particular quotation by the Pulitzer Prizes final month for her recording.