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County attorney questions State Patrol pursuit after fleeing motorist hit three children on Mpls playground

June 14, 2018 By Bill Werner

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is questioning whether state troopers should have continued the pursuit, even as he filed charges against an unlicensed driver who struck three young siblings on a north Minneapolis playground while being chased by officers.  The criminal complaint against 27-year-old Kabaar Powell of Richfield indicates troopers chased him off I-94 and at high speeds through nearly two-dozen stopsigns before the S-U-V crashed and hit the children. Freeman says “while it’s always easy for those of us to second-guess,… these kids’ lives… are a lot more important than catching this guy, in my view.” State Patrol officials have refused to discuss details of the pursuit, citing the ongoing investigation. The agency’s policy states a pursuit should be discontinued “when there is a clear and unreasonable danger to the trooper, fleeing motorist or other persons.”

 

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