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Minneapolis police today released body camera video of a traffic stop the night before that ended with a man shot dead, an extraordinarily quick move meant to contain public anger over the first death involved by city police since George Floyd died while being immobilized by officers. In May.
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The video shows the man killed by police, now identified as Dolal Idd, trying to get away from the officers before the shooting began. Source: Associated Press
The confrontation occurred yesterday at a gas station on the south side, one mile from where Floyd died.
Police said the man, identified by his father as Dolal Idd, was a suspect in a serious crime and eyewitnesses said he shot first.
The city released a short clip of an officer’s body camera in two versions, one of which slowed down for easy tracking. The video showed the man trying to get away from police before his vehicle was cornered, and then it showed him looking at officers through the driver’s side window. It was difficult to make out more details.
The driver’s window is smashed, an officer is heard cursing, and at least a dozen shots are fired.
Chief Medaria Arradondo said a weapon was found at the scene. A woman in the car was unharmed; no officer was injured.
At a press conference, Arradondo was asked if the officers used reasonable force and said they reacted to a deadly threat.
“When officers experience gunfire, they are trained to respond,” Arradondo said.
Later, when pressed on whether he was clear that the man in the car fired first, he said: “When I saw the video that everyone else was watching, and certainly the slowed-down real-time version, it certainly appears that the individual inside the vehicle shoots your weapon to officers first. “
Arradondo said the man was detained as part of a weapons investigation, but said he had no further details.
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Arradondo moved to post the video much earlier than usual, saying he wanted people to see it for themselves even as the state’s Office of Criminal Apprehension investigates.
Bayle Gelle of Eden Prairie told the Star Tribune today that the dead man was Idd, her son. Gelle told the newspaper that the authorities have not given him more information about what happened.
He said several officers carried out a search warrant at his home.
“The police, they are brutality,” he told the Star Tribune. “I want to do justice.”
Online court records showed a number of minor trafficking charges against Idd, but also a felony robbery conviction in 2018 and a drug crime conviction in 2017. The records, which included a date of birth that would make Idd was 23 years old, did not include detailed case summaries.
The records also included a 2019 misdemeanor conviction for carrying a handgun in a public place.
The Star Tribune reported that the charges in the case said that Idd fired a gun in the basement shower of his parents’ home in the suburban Eden Prairie with two children sleeping nearby.
The charges say Idd was later arrested with a pistol that was reported stolen in North Dakota.
Arradondo said the traffic stop was carried out by members of a police community response team, long-standing units that respond to situations such as drug investigations and firearms crimes. He said he had no additional details on why the man was wanted.
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The shooting happened about a mile from the corner of the street where George Floyd, a black man, died in May after a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even as Floyd pleaded with him to couldn’t breathe. Floyd’s death sparked days of sometimes violent protests that swept across the country and resonated around the world.
In Minneapolis, Floyd’s death also sparked a sea change in the police department, long criticized by activists for what they called a brutal culture that resisted change. A push by some City Council members to replace the department with a new public safety unit failed this summer.
Mayor Jacob Frey and Arradondo, who opposed removing the department, have offered several policy changes since Floyd’s death, including reviewing use of force policies and requiring officers to report their attempts to reduce situations. This same week, the chief and the mayor unveiled a new plan to involve the city attorney’s office more quickly in the investigations of officers accused of misconduct.
Frey called the shooting “a difficult and tragic day that capped what has been a difficult and tragic year.” He expressed his condolences to Idd’s family and said the quick release of the body camera video was part of the city’s attempt to be more transparent.
