Community mourns killing of Leneal Frazier, innocent man killed during a police chase & more | Afro

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Community mourns killing of Leneal Frazier, innocent man killed during a police chase & more | Afro

By Mel Reeves, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder The scene at the corner of 41st and Lyndale Avenue’s North on Wednesday night where 40-year-old Leneal Frazier died after being T-boned by a Minneapolis police officer involved in a high-speed chase early Tuesday morning was gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Frazier’s mother Jacqueline Jackson told MSR that “he was going home; […]

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