Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman responded to questions about a report that was issued clearing two Minneapolis Police officers of any wrong-doing in a fatal officer-involved shooting in July.
The report is in relation to an hours-long standoff that saw negotiators try to get 20-year-old Andrew Teckle Sundberg to come down off a window ledge.
Negotiators were unsuccessful, and two Minneapolis police snipers shot and killed him.
Prior to the police fatally shooting him, Sundberg had fired multiple rounds inside the Seward neighborhood apartment building, with a bullet going through her wall.
Freeman told Tom Hauser on the Morning News that while the shooting was tragic, the officers were within their legal right to open fire.
Freeman explained his decision to review the case instead of calling for an outside agency to help as was done in the George Floyd murder and other recent cases.
He said that in previous cases, outside help came in “because of some of the turmoil in the streets and frankly the lack of confidence by some folks in us making a decision.” However, he added, “that time has passed.”
Sundberg's family said he struggled with his mental health, and what precisely led up to the fatal shooting remains unclear.
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