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The indictment went against the man caught by deputy in the arrest, who was caught on video

The lawyer of Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, said on Friday that she would not file an indictment against a man who was struck by a deputy last month during an arrest in Minneapolis.

Viewer video of the arrest of January 9th in a parking lot near Franklin and 22nd Avenues shows two Hennepin County MPs next to the suspect. When they put him in handcuffs, one of the MPs is repeatedly hit the man in the head.

Usage usage incident in video, which was rated by Hennepin County Sheriff's Office

The MPs received drugs and a pistol from the man when carrying out a search, and the office of the sheriff submitted the case to the Moriarty office for testing about the illegal possession of a weapon and a drug possession.

After checking the arrest of the arrest, Moriarty said that the MPs seemed “no likely reason to escalate this interaction from a stop to a arrest” and that the case would be “unlikely” if evidence were contested in court.

In an explanation, the Hennepin district's office said that it was “disappointed” in the decision to reject the charges and claimed that the arrest was lawful.

“Although we are disappointed that the indictment against the suspect was rejected, we have undertaken to further investigate the examination of how the weapon got into the hands of a person who is forbidden to own firearms,” ​​says the press release.

The Sheriff's office also said that the Wright County's sheriff office asked about an external review of the usage use procedure. This review showed that the use of violence in view of the circumstances that the [detectives] were with. “