Ryan said Smith didn’t comply for “several minutes.” As law enforcement began to break a window, Smith looked at them “with a look of annoyance/disgust on his face.”
Ryan said the task force used lights and sirens as they boxed in the SUV, wore clearly marked tactical vests and gave numerous commands for Smith to keep his hands visible as he did something with his phone. Marshals Service said at the time that he didn’t comply and “produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing.” Paul, was in a parked SUV when he was shot. “Once an individual initiates a deadly force confrontation, a law enforcement officer does not have to wait to be shot/shot at before reacting.” He said task force members’ actions were reasonable, justified and “in response to an apparent threat of death or great bodily harm.” “Though I am unable to determine who fired first, it is irrelevant in this case,” Ryan wrote.
Ryan said Smith didn’t comply and as task force members tried to enter the SUV, “Smith initiated a deadly force confrontation … by drawing his handgun and firing.” Ryan said task force members were identifiable as law enforcement, told Smith he was under arrest and ordered him out of the vehicle. The central Minnesota prosecutor reviewed the case because prosecutors in the Twin Cities area had conflicts of interest and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced the decision Monday. Marshals Service task force will not be charged in thefatal shooting of Winston Smith Jr., a Black man who was killed while authorities were trying to arrest him as he sat in an SUV at a Minneapolis parking ramp, a prosecutor announced Monday.Ĭrow Wing County Attorney Don Ryan said in letters dated last Wednesday that the task force members were justified in using deadly force when they shot Smith on June 3 as they tried to detain him for allegedly being a felon in possession of a firearm. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The statement did not mention Smith by name or allude to his race.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The agencies who were involved were not disclosed, but it did not include Minneapolis police, the department whose officers were involved in Floyd's death, the Star Tribune reported.Ī statement from the force, issued by a Hennepin County Sheriff's Department spokesperson, said the suspect was wanted on a gun charge and the marshals were looking to arrest him on a state arrest warrant. So help me figure it out, find out who's the clone."
"He's got my ears, my hair lining and my amount of hair, my length, and he's trying to be me," Smith adds. He jokes that the guy has "my shoulders, my hair, my ears". They're going to make this guy commit crimes and they're going to blame me for it." These people are making a conspiracy about me. I want you to know that the government has made a clone of me.
MINNEAPOLIS WINSTON SMITH TRIAL
Standing in front of the trial playing on television, Smith says: "Who is this man? This is a clone. In another video on his Instagram account, Smith points at a man present in the Chauvin trial who he looks similar to. There is a photo of Smith on his Instagram account posing with Ben Crump, the high-profile civil rights attorney who represents the families of George Floyd and Daunte Wright, both Black men who were killed by white police officers in Minnesota. Read more Fires Break Out in Minneapolis After Fatal Police Shooting
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