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“The investigation is ongoing," the county prosecutor said, "We felt it was appropriate to focus on the most dangerous perpetrator," he added, referring to former officer Derek Chauvin.

Fri, 29 May 2020 14:42:19 -0400

The death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen pinned down in a video by a white police officer and later died, has caused outrage in the city of Minneapolis. What started as mostly peaceful protests in the beginning of week had turned into chaos by Friday. There have not yet been charges filed against any of the four officers at the scene, who were all fired, but the Department of Justice has made the investigation a "top priority."

Fri, 29 May 2020 14:35:00 -0400

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has responded to criticism of her time as Minneapolis' top prosecutor.Before she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Klobuchar was the Hennepin County attorney in Minnesota, in charge of prosecution for the state's most populous county. Reports have indicated Klobuchar did not go after numerous police officers who shot civilians, and when MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked her about that on Friday, Klobuchar described her decisions as routine procedure, but also expressed regret for how she handled those cases."When I was county attorney, cases we had involving officer-involved shootings went to a grand jury. I think that was wrong now," Klobuchar said. "It would have been much better if I took responsibility and looked at cases and made a decision myself." Still, Klobuchar maintained that "we did not blow off these cases. We brought them to a grand jury, presented the evidence for a potential criminal prosecution, and the grand jury would come back with the decision."Klobuchar also addressed a 2006 shooting that involved former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was arrested Friday after kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, who later died. Klobuchar was elected to the Senate a week after Chauvin was implicated in the shooting of a suspect who was allegedly attacking police, and left her DA position several months into an investigation into the incident. She said it's "absolutely false" that she declined to prosecute the case involving Chauvin; describing it as one of the cases that her office instead handed to a grand jury post-investigation. That case was investigated through 2007, after Klobuchar was in the Senate, and a grand jury later declined to prosecute.Klobuchar went on to call for "systematic change" following Floyd's death both in Minnesota and "across the country."More stories from theweek.com Amy Klobuchar didn't prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death 'A riot is the language of the unheard,' Martin Luther King Jr. explained 53 years ago Kylie Jenner has been 'inflating' her business success and isn't a billionaire, Forbes says

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