Ex-officer sentenced after assaulting man during unrest in Minneapolis after murder of George Floyd

The night of May 30, 2020, Justin Stetson and other officers were enforcing a curfew when his group spotted four people in a parking lot. One was Jaleel Stallings, an Army veteran with a permit to carry a gun. The officers opened fire with rubber bullets, hitting Stallings in the chest. Stallings then fired three shots at the officers’ unmarked van arguing that he thought civilians had attacked him, and that he fired in self-defense.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced Monday to 15 days in the county workhouse, with eligibility for electronic home monitoring, after  today!

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