Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis to pay more than $700,000 to Floyd demonstrators
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The town of Minneapolis pays greater than $700,000 to resolve complaints over extreme pressure by police throughout protests over the loss of life of George Floyd.
Metropolis council members on Thursday permitted 4 separate settlements, with the most important award issued to a bunch of 11 Minnesotans and one Iowa resident. Their class motion lawsuit in federal courtroom accused Minneapolis police of concentrating on them with tear gasoline, rubber bullets and pepper spray as they peacefully protested Floyd’s homicide.
Many of the plaintiffs had been marching alongside the Interstate 35W bridge on Could 31, 2020, when a semitrailer drove into a big crowd. Though no one was critically harm, the swimsuit alleges that police didn’t search to find if anybody was injured and targeted on the security of the truck driver, the Star Tribune reported.
“In different blatant shows of extreme pressure, captured on video, MPD officers will be seen spraying tear gasoline and pepper spray indiscriminately out of their squad automobile home windows whereas driving by peaceable protests,” in keeping with a 60-page civil swimsuit.
The council unanimously voted to award $50,000 to every named plaintiff within the case.
Minneapolis, MN
South Minneapolis shootout leaves 1 dead, 1 injured
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Man charged in 2013 fatal shooting at Minneapolis gas station upon return to U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS — A man who allegedly fled the country after fatally shooting a man in October of 2013 now faces charges.
The shooting happened shortly before midnight on Oct. 30, 2013, at a gas station at the intersection of Washington Avenue South and 12th Avenue South.
The 26-year-old victim was found in the driver’s seat of a car with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Nearby, officers found a torn piece of cloth that appeared to be from a letterman-style jacket, charges say.
Documents say that the victim had been on the phone with a woman eight minutes before the shooting. The woman told officers that she had driven to the gas station with her friend and another man in order to buy weed from the victim. She was arrested and made several calls from jail allegedly indicating that she was covering for the shooter, charges state.
Surveillance video from the scene showed 30-year-old Suleiman Ali getting out of the woman’s car and going into the gas station before the shooting. He was wearing a letterman-style jacket, documents state.
When police were investigating the case in 2013, they learned that Ali had fled the state, likely to Somalia.
The case stayed cold until mid-2022, when another woman called police saying that on the day of the shooting, Ali had called her and asked for money to help him leave the country. Ali allegedly admitted to shooting the victim.
In March of 2024, investigators learned Ali was back in the United States, but living outside of Minnesota. Investigators obtained a search warrant for his DNA, and had his out-of-state probation officer execute it.
Ali is currently in custody at the Hennepin County Jail. He is charged with second-degree murder.
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After decade on the run, man charged in 2013 Minneapolis fatal shooting
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