(29 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Minneapolis – 29 April 2024
1. Hennepin County Government Center with people wearing maroon shirts supporting trooper Ryan Londregan
2. Woman handing out maroon shirts
3. Supporters of trooper Ryan Londregan wearing maroon shirts
4. People with signs reading “BACK OUR BLUE” and “RECALL THE DA”
5. Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan shaking supporters hands with his wife Grace Londregan and attorney Chris Madel
6. Person holding sign reading “WE [love] YOU”
7. Various supporters of Ricky Cobb II family chanting UPSOUND (English):
“What’s his name? Ricky Cobb II”
8. Confrontation between supporters
9. Londregan supporters singing “God Bless America”
10. Ryan Londregan entering court elevator
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Madel, attorney for Ryan Londregan: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Trooper Londregan followed his training. We have four, four sworn declarations from state troopers, current and former, that say that he followed his training, including the use of force policy. Number two, we’re not asking for anything special from government. We’re asking just to get a prosecutor that cares about facts more than they do about yelling, and more than they do about the BS kind of justice they think that they’re meting out here.”
12. Supporters of Ricky Cobb II family facing off with sheriff deputies
13. Woman holding crucifix
14. Protesters confronting each other UPSOUND (English):
“Justice will be served and you will see.”
STORYLINE:
More than 300 people, including law enforcement officers from several agencies, gathered in the Hennepin County Government Center in solidarity with Trooper Ryan Londregan ahead of a pretrial hearing in his case. He’s charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and assault for fatally shooting Ricky Cobb II as Cobb tried to drive away from a traffic stop last summer. A similarly large crowd aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement shouted down an attempt by Londregan’s defense team to hold a news conference afterward.
“Trooper Londregan followed his training,” defense attorney Chris Madel was able to tell reporters anyway. He noted that the defense team has filed sworn declarations from four current and former troopers who say Londregan’s use of deadly force was justified. Madel also called for “a prosecutor who cares about the facts more than they do about yelling," before the shouts of “Whose streets? Our streets!” grew too loud.
“No good cops in a racist system,” they also chanted. “No justice, no peace. Prosecute the police.”
Four former federal prosecutors from the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Steptoe LLC will be deputized to take over the case from office of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty after the original leader of the prosecution team stepped away from the case, according to Chris Freeman, managing attorney for the office’s adult prosecution division. Freeman told Judge Tamara Garcia during the hearing that the outside lawyers would be named in court filings later this week. He did not address news reports that Assistant County Attorney Joshua Larson had removed himself as lead prosecutor, but confirmed that Larson is no longer on the case.
The defense says Londregan acted lawfully to protect himself and another trooper whi was
But Cobb’s family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit two weeks ago, alleging that the fatal shooting was unjustified and unlawful.
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