As you may know, Ramona Dohman, the current head of the U.S. In addition to their lack of credibility, the BCA has major conflicts of interest which should result in the agency’s immediate removal from investigating the police killing of Winston Smith. We have made clear for many years that the BCA is not a credible or competent agency for investigating killings by police officers. Yet, we have not seen the calls for more transparency, stronger policies to protect the public from unwarranted police violence, and a more robust disciplinary system be addressed by you or your administration with a sense of urgency. Since you became Governor, multiple people have been killed by police under very questionable circumstances. It appears that no one is accepting responsibility or taking accountability for the police killing of Winston Smith.Īs Minnesota residents, we deserve better and we demand better. Not only has the public been told that there is no body camera or dash camera footage available, which is unfathomable in 2021 but now we are being told by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) that the identities of the officers will not be revealed because they were supposedly acting undercover. The public has received scant details about what happened and why and even those details have changed repeatedly over the last few days. Winston Smith was killed last week by Sheriff’s Deputies from Hennepin and Ramsey Counties under the authority of the U.S. As the world watches Minnesota and our demands for genuine transformation, accountability, and transparency within our system of policing, we face yet another violent and horrific death of a Black man and father at the hands of law enforcement.

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