![]() ![]() ![]() Because this isn’t how they do it with anybody else, with regular folk. “They’ve kind of put it out there that Freeman and Ellison need time to build their case, and that’s really nonsensical. ![]() “I’m glad that these four police officers got charged, but it took entirely too long to do it,” said Gross in a phone interview Thursday. Even though officers Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and Alexander Kueng have been charged with murder (Chauvin) and aiding and abetting murder, Gross worries that a familiar system failure will prevail. “I’ve gotten about 10 hours sleep all week,” said Gross, as she printed out the document to distribute widely this weekend - not that she’s optimistic that it will have much impact on the Floyd case. ![]() But unlike so many frustrated citizens and protesters hoping for change, as founder of the nonprofit group Communities United Against Police Brutality, Gross has spent her sleepless nights hard at work on a 19-page document - “What Will It Take To End Police Violence?/Recommendations for Reform” - that she finished Thursday morning in her south Minneapolis home as mourners gathered across town at the Floyd memorial service at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. Like so many people, Michelle Gross hasn’t had a lot of sleep since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25. ![]()
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