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  Atlanta Black Star

  ‘Actions Deviated from His Oath’: Officer Involved In High Speed Chase That Killed Uncle of Teen Who Captured George Floyd’s Death to Face Charges

  Minneapolis police officer Brian Cummings is facing multiple charges, including one count of criminal vehicular homicide, in connection with a July high-speed chase that killed […]

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  NY Daily News

  Minnesota police officer facing criminal charges for high-speed chase that killed uncle of Darnella Frazier

  A Minnesota police officer is facing criminal charges in connection with a high-speed chase that killed the uncle of Darnella Frazier, who was thrown into the spotlight after she recorded the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day last year. Minneapolis Police Officer Brian Cummings is facing one count of second-degree manslaughter and one of criminal vehicular homicide in the death of Leneal ...

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  NBC News

  Minneapolis officer charged in crash that killed innocent driver during pursuit

  The July 6 crash killed Leneal Frazier, who was not involved in the chase. He was the uncle of the teen who filmed George Floyd's killing.

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  Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

  Mpls. officer charged in pursuit that killed Leneal Frazier

  A Minneapolis police officer was driving nearly 80 mph on residential streets when he struck Leneal Frazier's SUV this summer while pursuing a suspected stolen vehicle, resulting in Frazier's death, according to criminal charges filed Friday. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office charged officer Brian Cummings with second-degree manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicide for striking the ...

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  Associated Press

  Funeral held for bystander killed in police pursuit crash

  Friends and family gathered at a Minneapolis church to honor the life of a man killed when a police squad car struck his vehicle while the officer was chasing a robbery suspect. A funeral for Leneal Frazier, 40, took place Monday at Shiloh Temple. The service was attended by relatives of George Floyd, the Black man killed last year by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

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  Associated Press

  Family seeks charges against Minneapolis cop in fatal chase

  The family of an innocent motorist who was killed when a Minneapolis police officer crashed into him while chasing a suspect called Friday for the officer to be fired and prosecuted. The crash this week fatally injured Leneal Frazier, 40, an uncle of Darnella Frazier, the teenager who was given a special citation by the Pulitzer Prizes for recording cellphone video of George Floyd’s arrest and death last year. Police have said Officer Brian Cummings had his lights and siren activated Tuesday

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  Tribune Publishing

  Police: Officer chased suspect who ran red light before crash

  The officer who caused a fatal crash during a pursuit in north Minneapolis this week was closely following a suspect who sped through a red light, according to police records, while the family of the man killed demanded transparency and justice. A Police Department incident report released Wednesday says that Officer Brian Cummings was northbound on Lyndale Avenue with lights and siren ...

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  Tribune Publishing

  Deadly chase prompts new Minneapolis police pursuit review

  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Thursday the city will review yet again its police pursuit policy in the wake of a chase this week that ended with an officer hitting and killing an innocent motorist at a north Minneapolis intersection. Frey in a statement called "a horrific tragedy" the collision that took the life of 40-year-old Leneal Frazier early Tuesday at intersection of N. Lyndale and ...

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  Tribune Publishing

  Mourners block where Mpls. police car crashed amid pursuit

  Mourners on Wednesday night blocked off the intersection where a Minneapolis police squad had crashed into and killed an innocent driver during a police pursuit the day before. Using their cars, they barricaded the intersection from all sides, rejecting police requests to open up the intersection. One irate driver confronted the crowd, sending people running in a panic, and then left. Cheryl ...

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  Tribune Publishing

  Royalton seeks utility savings

  Apr. 14—Town of Royalton water district projects are continuing and a major sewer project is just about wrapped up, said Brian Cummings, superintendent of water and sewer in the Town of Royalton. Highway Superintendent James Spark also had good news to report. He said that the Town of Royalton will be receiving a 32.5% increase in Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program ...

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