Meanwhile, a Minneapolis DFLer in the Minnesota Legislature was briefed by state officials over the weekend and learned that Gov. "We're reviewing language that would allow anyone assigned from our office to the task force to wear a body-worn camera," said Hennepin County Sheriff's Office spokesman Andy Skoogman. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office indicated Monday it received newly added language for consideration of amending its agreement with the task force. Marshals Service spokespeople were not immediately returned. "As a result of her voicemail, I have made the decision that Ramsey County Sheriff's Deputies will not participate with the Marshals Fugitive Task Force until body cameras are actually authorized." until the onboarding process goes on,' " Fletcher said in a statement. so, your deputies still won't be allowed to use their body cameras. Marshal Mona Dohman, in which she explains, 'It could take a while for this to be approved. "However, much to my surprise, I received a voice-mail from U.S. But in a followup statement later Monday, Fletcher said the federal agency "has been misleading in their public comments to the media." The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office initially said Monday that it would now have its members equipped with body-worn cameras while on these federal assignments. Marshals Service's Northstar Violent Offender Task Force. A preliminary investigation shows that a Hennepin County sheriff's deputy and a Ramsey County deputy shot Smith while under the direction of the U.S.
Smith, 32, of Minneapolis, was killed Thursday afternoon after authorities say he fired a gun from his vehicle as the task force attempted to arrest him on a warrant from Ramsey County for being a felon in possession of a gun, state officials said. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of the lack of any known video of the encounter, whether from body cameras, squad car dash cameras or parking ramp surveillance where the arrest occurred. Marshals Service "has been misleading" in public comments suggesting otherwise. during an arrest operation in Uptown Minneapolis last week, saying they were forbidden to use body-worn cameras during the encounter and that the U.S. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said Monday that he's pulling his agency from a federal task force whose members shot and killed Winston Smith Jr.
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