The member of the Minneapolis Park Police is Steven Manhood. Mrs. Alison Sanders, an African immigrant, spoke of the overwhelming grief in which she now lives as a widowed mother. For somebody to take his life just like he was a dog or a rabbit or, like he was an animal, that's wrong. I have to explain to them, 'Your father's not going to be here no more,' and that hurts me every day. Somebody just decided they would take his life like they owned his life.
Nobody can own none of our lives.
I don't own none of your lives to just take it from you. He was a man who needed help, but somebody just decided they didn't want to do their job and just took his life. Mel Reeves addressed the Council last, saying the investigation should be open. These are your constituents. This man was murdered from our perspective.