BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Police in suburban Minneapolis shot and killed a man Sunday afternoon who was allegedly involved in a carjacking and fired shots at pursuing officers, according to a release from the Burnsville Police Department.
The release said officers encountered the suspect, believed to be a white man in his 20s, driving a vehicle with stolen plates in Burnsville, south of Minneapolis. Shortly after the suspect crashed the vehicle, officers received a report that the same man had then stolen a car from a woman at gunpoint.
The woman whose vehicle was carjacked by an armed assailant who was taken down and killed by police in Burnsville, MN defends the actions of the police. pic.twitter.com/ZjjgnoSl4O
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 18, 2021
Police said the suspect began shooting at police during a chase before crashing the vehicle. The suspect continued to fire at police and multiple officers returned fire, according to the release. The man was later pronounced dead at a Minneapolis hospital.
No officers were injured and those involved have been placed on standard administrative leave, the release said. All officers wear body cameras, which will be part of the investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the statement said.
The Star Tribune, citing traffic camera video, said the man jumped out of a moving white car, ran along the median and into traffic, and appeared to point a gun at a white SUV.
A snippet of the traffic camera video posted online showed the man stepping out of a slowly moving vehicle on a highway on-ramp, then stepping into traffic and appearing to try to stop the SUV, which slowed and then veered away. A police car quickly pulled up next to the man.
The shooting comes a day before closing arguments in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd, and after a week of unrest that followed the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, another suburb.
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One less low life in the world. There isn’t anything more that needs to be said.
Wait, when will the riots happen..
OH YEA he was white, there will never be riots over a white guy killed by cops…
I read they tried to Tweet “it was a white man so no need to riot” and later took the tweet down, but it did tell all. No riot- it wasn’t a person of color.
My guess he wanted suicide by cop. Should have black-faced first, that would have made it news worthy.
The police acted properly. I don’t care what color the guys skin was. However, if the guy had been black it would have been another night of riots and Maxine would be calling for more ‘confrontation’. Glad the woman and her child are OK and safe.
I wonder. DID The black lady who’s kid was in the car when it was jacked, THANK the cops??
Read and watch the original post. You might learn something.
She defended their acts. I didn’t see it say anything about her THANKING the cops..
What will Maxine say now, more white people should be shot and killed because of slavery?
SINCE they’ve had no issue with the ‘knock out game’ targeting whites, NOR DID they ever say a damn thing about all those whites SHOT during the riots BY BLM..
The mayor stands behind the police….what courage. The guy car jacked a woman’s car, had a gun fight with the police and is White.
Interesting that this man was white.
Expect no demonstrations because of his well-deserved death.
No riots.
No public outcry.
No claims of unfair treatment.
No racist backlash from political opportunists.
Hmmm !!
No surprise to me.. IF WHITES get killed by blacks – no news.
If blacks kill blacks – no news.
if blacks are killed by white cops (or any white person) no matter WHY, its news 24/7