Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) called the fatal Minneapolis police shooting of Dolal Idd a “state sanctioned murder”—despite body-camera footage showing that Idd fired at police first.
Idd, a 23-year-old black man, was inside his vehicle at a gas station parking lot when Minneapolis police surrounded him on December 30, suspecting he was involved in a felony gun crime.
Police chief Medaria Arradondo said that Idd shot at police from within his vehicle—something confirmed by body-camera footage and eyewitness testimony—before police returned fire, ABC News reported.
MPD is a joke, this isn’t transparency or accountability.
A man was killed, his family terrorized & robbed of a son and all they are left w/ is more questions than answers.
Let’s stop normalizing + justifying state sanctioned murder by those who take an oath to uphold the law. https://t.co/PPYcYvCa6i
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 1, 2021
Omar, a longtime critic of the Minneapolis police, condemned the officers’ actions and called the department a “joke” in a tweet following the shooting. – READ MORE
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