Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

Not abuse but negligence

And I hope that 100% quote is a major part of a civil lawsuit
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Minneapolis police have apologized for failing to address a local Black man’s complaints of repeated, racist harassment from his white neighbor until after the neighbor shot the victim in the victim’s own yard.

The attack on 34-year-old Davis Moturi this past Wednesday as he performed yard work left him with a fractured spine, two broken ribs and a concussion.

Authorities by Thursday had obtained criminal charges against John Herbert Sawchak, who is accused of shooting from an upstairs window in his home to wound Moturi – but they waited until early Monday to arrest him.

“We failed this victim 100%,” Brian O’Hara, Minneapolis police chief, told reporters. “And to that victim, I say I am sorry that this happened to you.”

Moturi’s shooting comes after a US justice department investigation last year concluded that the Minneapolis police department had a “pattern or practice” of discrimination against Black Americans, among other findings.

That investigation stemmed from the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white officer in plain view of a recording cellphone, a killing that set off racial justice protests worldwide.

Since Moturi purchased his home in 2023, he and his wife contacted authorities at least 19 times to report Sawchak for vandalism, property destruction, harassment and threats of physical harm while hurling racist slurs, court records state.

Police obtained at least three warrants to arrest Sawchak in connection with threats or violent acts against Moturi and other neighbors.

But none resulted in his capture, with police claiming Sawchak “actively evaded [them] during prior attempts to contact or arrest him”.

Finally, from an upstairs window in his home, Sawchak shot Moturi in the neck while the victim pruned a tree that was near the property line with a chainsaw in his own yard. Sawchak had apparently planted the tree with his mother, O’Hara said.

A day later, the Hennepin county attorney’s office charged Sawchak with attempted murder, first-degree assault, felony harassment and stalking – with prosecutors explicitly accusing him of racism.

But it wasn’t until 1.30am on Monday that police took Sawchak into custody.……

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