St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The St. Paul police chief says an officer who shot and wounded a Black man who emerged naked from a dumpster while being sought in connection with a sexual assault failed to measure up to department standards.
Chief Todd Axtel released police bodycam video and said that he’d taken “swift, decisive and serious action” against the officer, who is identified by state investigators as Officer Anthony Dean.
The officer was fired following Saturday night’s shooting of Joseph Javonte Washington. The police union defended the officers involved, saying they were trying to apprehend “a violent and dangerous felon.”
Washington is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Lakeville.
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