Minneapolis: Youth who recorded the last moment of George Flloyd’s life in a video that helped launch the global protest movement against racial injustice said his uncle had died in an accident involving the Minneapolis police car.
Darnella Frazier said at the Facebook post that Leneal Lamont Frazier died on Tuesday morning after his vehicle was shocked by a squad car he said the police chased several robbery.
Frazier was not involved in his pursuit and nephew asked why the police were conducting high-speed pursuits on the residential road.
“A black man loses his life in the hands of the police!” Frazier wrote.
“Minneapolis police have the cost of my whole family, today has become a day full of broken heart and sadness.” According to police, car squad and two other vehicles collided around 12:30 a.m.
After the suspect escaped from the traffic stop.
The driver of one of the other vehicles was taken to the North Memorial Health at Robbinsdale, where he later died.
The officer involved in the accident was hospitalized.
On Wednesday morning, the police and the medical examiner office did not release the names of men who died.
The officer chased a driver in a vehicle related to piracy and robbery in a number of businesses, said Minneapolis John Elder police spokesman.
The suspect remained great, Elder said.
Darnell Frazier was 17, when he recorded the arrest of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, on May 25, 2020.
Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, who held his knee to Floyd’s neck handcuffed and facing the street, punished and sentenced to 22 1 / 2 years in prison.
The Former 0TREE other officers at the scene will be tried in March.
The four also faced charges of federal civil rights.
Frazier testified on Chauvin’s trial that he walked to the corner grocery store to get a snack with his 9-year-old cousin when he saw a man pinned to the sidewalk, “fear, scared,” he took out his cellphone and began recording.
He was given a special quote by Pulitzer a gift last month for his recording.