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Amy Klobuchar was among the chorus of voices demanding justice for the unarmed Black man who a Minneapolis police officer appears to kill on a video that went viral shortly after the incident on Monday.
An Associated Press investigation into Burrell’s case determined that his conviction was “flawed,” causing a number of groups, including the Minneapolis NAACP, to demand Klobuchar suspend her presidential campaign, which she did end in March.
On top of that, a report from Minnesota Public (MPR) radio published last year claimed that Klobuchar “didn’t prosecute controversial police killings or brutality cases as a county prosecutor.”
The MPR report cited on instance when the “mother of a black teenager who was shot and killed by police in 2004 begged Klobuchar to file charges against the officer instead of presenting the case to a grand jury.”
However, the Washington Post found those claims to be faulty because of incorrect data compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice, which ultimately admitted that “no meaningful statements about the number of black people in jail in Hennepin County can be made for the time Klobuchar was DA.”
