As a top prosecutor, Klobuchar often declined to pursue charges in police-involved killings
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🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, hey, you. |
| 0:06.9 | He is in the Reserve Bank from the Washington Post. |
| 0:08.9 | Washington Post, this is Wesley. |
| 0:10.9 | Glory, Arightani, over at the post. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm... |
| 0:13.9 | This is Post for Ports. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:18.8 | It's Thursday, March 21st. |
| 0:23.4 | Today Amy Klobuchar's record as a tough on crime prosecutor. |
| 0:27.4 | By some Americans can't get a drug that prevents HIV and how to survive a horror movie. |
| 0:36.2 | Christopher Burns was a 44-year-old black man, living on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis |
| 0:42.1 | with his fiance and with a three or four young children. |
| 0:46.5 | Police were called to his residence by a child who was reporting a domestic dispute. |
| 0:52.9 | Elise V. Beck and Michelle Lee have been looking into this case of Christopher Burns. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Michelle Yehili. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm a political enterprise reporter. |
| 1:00.5 | And I'm Elise V. Beck. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm also a political enterprise reporter. |
| 1:03.8 | The case is from 2002. |
| 1:05.7 | So before the Black Lives Matter movement put a national spotlight on police brutality. |
| 1:11.1 | But even at that time, activists in Minnesota were raising the alarm. |
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