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- The uncle of the teen who captured the killing of George Floyd on video has reportedly died after his car was struck by a Minneapolis police vehicle.
- “Today has been a day full of heartbreak and sadness,” Darnella Frazier wrote on Facebook.
- Leneal Lamont Frazier was killed while police were pursuing another person in a “high speed chase,” Frazier wrote.
The uncle of the teen whose viral video captured the killing of George Floyd has reportedly died after his car was struck by a Minneapolis police vehicle.
Darnella Frazier wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday that Leneal Lamont Frazier was killed while police were pursuing another person in a “high speed chase.” Reports indicate that officers were in pursuit of a robbery suspect.
“Another black man lost his life in the hands of the police!” Frazier wrote on Facebook. “Minneapolis police [have] cost my whole family a big loss. Today has been a day full of heartbreak and sadness.”
Frazier clarified later that she was not accusing Minneapolis police in her previous post of intentionally killing her uncle, saying she “never said the police killed him on purpose.” Instead, Frazier wrote, “police made a bad decision by doing a high speed chase on a residential road.”
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The Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) is investigating the incident. Bruce Gordon, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety told The Washington Post that the MSP will turn over findings to “the county attorney for review.”
The Post reported police began pursuit of a person suspected of several robberies around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. A failed traffic stop then led to an eight-block chase on a residential road, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson told the paper.
Both Frazier and the officer involved were taken to the hospital. The officer was released with non-life-threatening injuries, according to The Post.
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Darnella Frazier, who testified at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, earned an honorary Pulitzer for her video capturing the last moments of George Floyd’s life.
“My video didn’t save George Floyd, but it put his murderer away and off the streets. You can view George Floyd anyway you choose to view him, despite his past, because don’t we all have one?” she wrote in a tribute post on Facebook in May.
Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to more than 22 years in prison in June.
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