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The shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil. Officer Jamal Mitchell's ...
The connection between the two shooting scenes wasn’t immediately clear. Police had said the public was not in any danger. The shooting comes three months after two officers and a firefighter-paramedic in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville were killed while responding to a domestic violence call. In that case, a man began shooting from a ...
A Minneapolis police officer, another person and a suspected shooter are dead following a shooting in south Minneapolis Thursday evening that left a chaotic scene in the Whittier neighborhood ...
Minnesota law enforcement on Saturday identified the man who they believe fatally shot a Minneapolis officer in what police are calling an ambush. Minnesota Public Safety Department spokesperson ...
[9] [4] [5] Several Minneapolis city councilors who were critical of the police department released statements about the shooting that did not use Mitchell's name or note that a police officer had been killed. [23] Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ordered flags in the state to be flown at half-staff on May 31, 2024. [24]
[44] [49] A statement from the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, the local police union, includes: "Policing, particularly with a SWAT team, is a dangerous, high-stress profession where officers are forced to make important split-second decisions in defense of themselves and fellow officers, especially when weapons are involved". [39]
Delaware State Police: February 6, 2001: Killed when she was pinned between her patrol car and another vehicle while assisting in a car accident investigation on Route 1 near Odessa. [306] Corporal Christopher Michael Shea: Delaware State Police: July 18, 2004: Killed when his patrol car is struck head-on by a drunk driver outside Milford. [307]
The last time a Minneapolis police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty was Melissa Schmidt, who was wounded in a public housing complex in the Lyndale neighborhood in 2002. Minneapolis ...