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Family demands footage from in-custody death of Faribault man
The family and friends of a Black man who died in the back of a Faribault, Minn., police officer’s car on the way to jail gathered Thursday afternoon in Minneapolis to demand officials release police footage of the incident.
Kenya Skelton, the sister of 36-year-old Jerrell Skelton, said she wants the footage released immediately to show what happened prior to her brother’s death earlier this monthafter a traffic stop.
“I need to give his kids answers,” Kenya Skelton said. “I need us to have solace, because otherwise there is no moving on.”
About 20 people attended a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center. Some held signs reading “gone too soon.”
A Faribault police officer stopped Jerrell Skelton on suspicion of impaired driving just before midnight Sept. 2, the department said in a news release.
After officers stopped him, Skelton was taken into custody and an ambulance team cleared him to be taken to jail following a medical evaluation, the department said. On the way to the Rice County jail, Skelton lost consciousness and was later pronounced dead at a hospital despite efforts to save him.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating, has not released a cause of death. The BCA in a news release last week noted Skelton had “no apparent injuries.”
Officer body cameras and dash cameras captured the incident, the release said.
Honesty Nagel, the mother of two of Skelton’s children, said she was upset that medical workers cleared him to go back into a police car after he repeatedly lost consciousness.
“I don’t understand: If someone is coming in and out of consciousness, and you’re having to pull him over going 10 miles per hour, how is he OK to go in the back of a cop car?” Nagel said.
The family also demanded that Faribault police release footage from a separate encounter Aug. 25 in which they allege police used excessive force.
Faribault Police Chief John Sherwin said Thursday that Skelton had “a number of incidents” with the department in the past year. Sherwin said he would not comment on the death further until the BCA releases its findings.
“The reason why we call the BCA is we want a transparent investigation, and that’s what they’ve been tasked with,” he said.
Two of Skelton’s children cried at the news conference while demanding footage be released.
“The thing that destroys me is that I don’t get to make more memories with him,” DeMaria Skelton, 13, said.
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Prosecutors file sealed brief detailing allegations against Trump in election interference case
In their new indictment, Smith’s team ditched certain allegations related to Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department but left the bulk of the case intact, arguing that the remaining acts — including Trump’s hectoring of his vice president, Mike Pence, to refuse to certify the counting of electoral votes — do not deserve immunity protections.
Chutkan is now responsible for deciding which acts in the indictment, including allegations that Trump participated in a scheme to enlist fake electors in battleground states he lost, are official acts and therefore immune from prosecution and which are private acts.
She has acknowledged that her decisions are likely to be subject to additional appeals to the Supreme Court.
“I honestly think he used to understand how tariffs work,” Cuban said. “Back in the 90s and early 2000s, he was a little bit coherent when he talked about trade policy and he actually made a little bit of sense. But I don’t know what happened to him.”
Speaking in Pittsburgh on Thursday, Trump’s running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, pushed back against the Harris campaign’s claims that tariffs would hurt the economy. Vance described the tariffs as a way of discouraging imports and boosting American manufacturing.
“If you are a business, and you rely on foreign slave labor at $3 a day, the only way to rebuild American manufacturing is to say, if you want to bring that product made by slave labor back into the United States of America, you’re going to pay a big fat tariff before you get it back into our country,” Vance said.
Back in Wisconsin, Amara Marshell, freshman at UW-La Crosse, said she showed up to support Harris because she is concerned about what a second Trump presidency could mean for reproductive rights. Like her friend, sophomore Avery Black, Marshell is also excited about the possibility of electing the nation’s first female president.
“Women deserve to have power over their own bodies,” Marshell said. “We shouldn’t have to not be able to get an abortion just because of a president.”
Mary Holman, an 80-year-old retiree from Fort Atkinson, Wis., said she hasn’t been to a rally since former President Barack Obama’s first campaign in 2008. But Holman said she decided to get off the sidelines this cycle because she views the election as a fight to preserve democracy.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will auction off state lands in popular northern counties next month.
The public land — in Aitkin, Cook, Itasca, and St. Louis counties — will go up for sale during the Department of Natural Resource’s annual online public land sale from Nov. 7 to 21.
“These rural and lakeshore properties may appeal to adjacent landowners or offer recreational opportunities such as space for a small cabin or camping,” the DNR said in a statement.
Properties will be available for bidding Nov. 7 through Nov. 21.
This all can trim for print: The properties include:
40 acres in Aitkin County, with a minimum bid of $85,000
44 acres in Cook County, minimum bid $138,000
1.9 acres in Itasca County, minimum bid $114,000
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