The now-ex-policeman in jail on $500,000 bond and facing 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter (in Minnesota intent is not a requirement), has had 10 prior excessive force complaints against him in his 19-year career.
One of those was for shooting a guy going bezerk with a knife, so don't count that.
But the county attorney declined to pursue charges.
Guess who the county attorney was, for at least part of his career?
Amy Klobuchar, who is a Democrat US Senator from Minnesota.
Up until this happened, she was on the shortlist for VP on the Biden ticket.
Since one could argue her failure to go after this cop, left him on the streets, maybe there just might have been political pressure to take the heat off the policeman, so they wouldn't go digging into his past, and make *her* look bad?
I have read that he had 17 total complaints.
Only two resulted in punishment or reprimand, and those two were not excessive force complaints.
The only significant thing I see about this case is that the cop was white, and the criminal was Black.
If the cop was Black and the criminal was white, I would not care.
In my universe, a 45 year old white male who uses fentanyl and meth, who has heart disease and high blood pressure, who has a record of violent crime, who passes counterfeit money, and who resists arrest - that white man is personally responsible for whatever happens to him.
Pot...meet kettle. 🤣