Almost a year after prosecutors vowed to revisit the 2013 killing of Terrance Franklin by Minneapolis police, family members are still awaiting official word of progress. karl_vick reports
. The prosecutors cited police body-camera footage showing that Locke had a gun in his hand when he was shot.
Franklin was unarmed. But in the basement encounter, rounds from a police submachine gun wounded two officers. To explain how, the cops all told the same story: that Franklin had somehow managed to grab the machine gun, and was then swiftly killed by officers acting in self-defense. The MPD embraced that narrative, painting the officers as heroes.
In one, an audio expert examined the soundtrack of a videotape a bystander recorded outside the house where Franklin was killed. The key passage is stippled with racial epithets and dread: Franklin is heard announcing himself by his nickname–“My name is Mookie!”–and hollering, “Let me go!” It is then that he’s told “don’t go putting those hands up now” just before being shot 10 times.
“Those officers still need to be held accountable,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a prominent civil rights activist in Minnesota and former law professor at St. Thomas University in St. Paul. “It was so egregious.” She recalled that at the time of the killing, a few small protests were organized to pressure officials, but that Franklin’s death was “something that really fell below the radar screen. It was before the BLM movement, before the.
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