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The police officer behind the wheel during the pursuit was also taken to the hospital following the collisions but is expected to survive. No other serious injuries were reported.
“I’m so hurt…nothing feels real,“she wrote. “MINNEAPOLIS police Killed my uncle. MY uncle… Another black man lost his life in the hands of the police!”
Leneal’s daughter, Lanesha Frazier, also spoke about the officer-involved crash, KSMP reports.
“This is not fair, not right,” Lanesha said. “I didn’t expect that to be my father. I’m really grieving because all these police out here, they’re not watching what they’re doing… they need to watch what they’re doing, innocent people out here being hurt.”
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John Elder, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police Department, told theStar Tribunethat officers were pursuing a suspect in a stolen vehicle linked to multiple robberies when the accident occurred. The suspect was not apprehended during the chase.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department’spolicy manual, “officers shall not initiate a pursuit or shall terminate a pursuit in progress if the pursuit poses an unreasonable risk to the officers, the public or passengers of the vehicle being pursued who may be unwilling participants.”
An analysis of data from theStar Tribuneshows that between 2016 and 2020, unintentional crashes were the most common reason that a police pursuit ended in Minneapolis.
“He would help anyone, anytime no matter the circumstances,” the fundraiser reads. “He was one of the sweetest people you will ever meet.”
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