Minneapolis, Minnesota—Fourteen years before he killed George Floyd,
Derek Chauvin was one of several cops who opened fire on and killed
Wayne Reyes Sr., a Native man who was a suspect in a stabbing. Nine
years before he killed George Floyd, Chauvin was placed on
administrative leave for his role in an officer-involved shooting in
Little Earth of United Tribes, the country’s only Section 8 housing
project specifically devoted to Native Americans. He was among a group
of five officers who fired at a twenty-three-year-old Native man named
Leroy Martinez, whom they accused of brandishing a gun in the complex,
shooting him in the torso, though not fatally. Chauvin was put on three
days’ leave, but the Minneapolis Police Department chief concluded later
that the group had acted “appropriately and courageously.”
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/07/31/patrolling-minneapolis-native-american-history/
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