MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday that his office will lead the prosecution of a former suburban police officer who is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright.
Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter, who is white, fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, on April 11. The city’s police chief, who has since stepped down, had said he believed Potter meant to use her Taser instead of her handgun.
“Daunte Wright’s death was a tragedy. He should not have died on the day that he did. He should not have died the way that he did,” Ellison said in a statement. Continue reading.
Two teenagers, ages 16 and 13, are charged in assault near Bloomington mosque.
Minnesota political and faith leaders gathered Friday afternoon at a Bloomington mosque to call for religious tolerance and unity in response to the attack on an imam as he walked to his nightly prayers.
“That caused huge waves of fear. The following day, half of the congregation did not show up,” said Mohamed Omar, executive director of Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center.
Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Peggy Flanagan and Attorney General Keith Ellison were among those participating in a show of solidarity with the imam who was attacked, Mohamed Mukhtar. Continue reading.
Attorney General Keith Ellison signed the paperwork to make it official after he took the oath of office at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Credit: Anthony Souffle, Star Tribune
With one hand on a Qur’an, Keith Ellison ushered in a new era Monday for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, promising to use his new role as “the People’s Lawyer” as a vehicle that will take the office’s reach to every corner of the state.
With one hand on a Qur’an, Keith Ellison ushered in a new era Monday for the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, promising to use his new role as “the People’s Lawyer” as a vehicle that will take the office’s reach to every corner of the state.
“Minnesotans deserve an Attorney General’s Office where they can count on fair treatment and equal justice,” Ellison said during his inaugural address inside the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. “And they won’t just come to us — we will go to them. There is no town, no county too small or too far from the metro that my office will not do everything it can to help.”
For the first time in more than a decade, Minnesota has a new chief legal officer as Ellison follows Lori Swanson, who departed following an unsuccessful bid for governor last year. Ellison, the state’s 30th Attorney General is also its first African-American and first Muslim to hold the office. Ellison was also the first Muslim elected to Congress, where he served six terms before capturing his first statewide office in November.
In the wake of November’s election, pharmaceutical companies across the country announced massive price hikes to crucial medications. As Keith Ellison prepares his agenda for his tenure as Minnesota Attorney General, he has set his eyes on these price hikes and the companies behind them.
As a candidate for attorney general, Keith Ellison said he would work to help people afford their lives and ensure they have dignity and respect. Ellison said those goals remain unchanged as he prepares to take office next week.
n the wake of November’s election, pharmaceutical companies across the country