A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop.
The prosecutor who reluctantly dismissed the case against a Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed Ricky Cobb II is defending her initial decision.Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty speaks at a news conference on Monday, June 3, 2024, in Minneapolis, on her decision to dismiss the politically heated case of a Minnesota state trooper who shot a motorist to death.
Walz denied Moriarty’s allegations that he interfered in the case, but also told reporters he would have used his power to take the case from her and hand it to the attorney general’s office if she had not dropped the charges. He said those powers provide a “safety net” to “allow an egregious situation like this to be corrected.”urging Walz to take the case from Moriarty, said her statements about her decision were “unhinged” and “riddled with vengeance.
On July 31, troopers pulled the 33-year-old Cobb over on Interstate 94 because the lights were out on his car. They found that thefor a violating a domestic no-contact order in neighboring Ramsey County. Londregan arrived to assist. While the troopers were telling Cobb to get out of the car, he shifted into drive and took his foot off the brake. When Cobb’s car began to slowly move forward, Londregan reached for his gun. Cobb stopped.
Prosecutors took all of that to a use-of-force expert whose analysis lead them to conclude that they’d lose at trial, Moriarty said. The judge might have dismissed the case without even sending it to the jury, she added. Moriarty called on the State Patrol to implement several changes to reduce the use of deadly force. The troopers at the scene had better options than leaning into his car to try to extricate Cobb but “bungled” their opportunities, she said. They could have told Cobb that they intended to arrest him, instead of just ordering him out of the car. They could have just let him drive off, she said, because they knew where to find him. Or they could have placed stop sticks under his car.
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