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The focus of the community’s anger was Amy Klobuchar, the up-and-coming attorney of Hennepin County, who had declined to prosecute police accused of using excessive force against black suspects....Klobuchar, then 42, declined to bring charges against the officers, and a grand jury she convened did not indict them.}}
The focus of the community’s anger was Amy Klobuchar, the up-and-coming attorney of Hennepin County, who had declined to prosecute police accused of using excessive force against black suspects....Klobuchar, then 42, declined to bring charges against the officers, and a grand jury she convened did not indict them.}}
Rory Fleming reported,
{{quotebox|As county attorney, Klobuchar claimed a causal relationship between kids skipping out on school and killing people. In 2003, Black kids faced over 60 percent of Klobuchar’s new juvenile delinquency petitions, despite Black people only being about 13 percent of her county’s population at that time.
Klobuchar also worked on the front lines of Minnesota’s version of Project Exile, called Minnesota HEALS. Both programs were a way to easily federalize “felon with a firearm” cases to obtain much harsher, parole-ineligible sentences.
Project Exile has been called draconian and racially biased. Minnesota HEALS nominally aimed to be a kinder, gentler version of Project Exile, whereby cops would work to convince gang members to leave the lifestyle, then offer social services as follow-up. However, that part of the mission was sidelined so Klobuchar could help exile many young Black men to federal prisons several hundreds of miles from home....
She later endorsed Michael O. Freeman for Hennepin county attorney in 2018—the same prosecutor who victim-blamed Jamar Clark for his murder by police officers and nostalgically said on air that Minneapolis was a “simpler society” before the Black people moved in. }}
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