Minneapolis cop charged in chase that killed innocent driver

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis constabulary serviceman has been charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide for a clang successful July that killed an guiltless motorist portion the serviceman was pursuing a stolen vehicle.

Authorities accidental Officer Brian Cummings was driving astir 80 mph successful Minneapolis with his siren and lights activated erstwhile his squad car slammed into a antithetic vehicle, sidesplitting 40-year-old Leneal Frazier.

According to the Associated Press, Frazier's Jeep was struck connected the driver's side.

Frazier was the uncle of Darnella Frazier, whose cellphone video of Derek Chauvin kneeling connected George Floyd's cervix successful 2020 was viewed worldwide and helped motorboat a planetary protestation question against radical injustice.

After the deadly crash, Mayor Jacob Frey said the city would reappraisal its pursuit policy, the quality outlet reported.

The Frazier household and their attorneys welcomed the charges, saying nary guiltless civilian should ever dice due to the fact that of unwarranted high-speed chases.

At the clip of the fatal crash, Darnella said successful a Facebook post that the "Minneapolis constabulary has outgo my full household a large loss" and that they "took an guiltless beingness trying to drawback idiosyncratic else."

According to the Associated Press, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner verified Leneal Frazier's decease was owed to "multiple blunt unit injuries."