Minneapolis police officer charged in July crash that killed Leneal Frazier
Candles, flowers and framed pictures form a memorial to Leneal Frazier, who died in a crash with a squad car that was pursuing a non-violent theft suspect the morning of Tuesday, July 6, 2021.[Jim O'Connell/KSTP]
(KSTP) – A Minneapolis police officer has been charged in connection with a crash that killed 40-year-old Leneal Frazier this past summer.
Court records show Brian Cummings has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal vehicular homicide after crashing his squad car into a vehicle, causing the death of Frazier.
Frazier was the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the viral video of George Floyd‘s death.
On July 6 at about 12:30 a.m., Cummings was pursuing the driver of a stolen vehicle in north Minneapolis when his marked squad car slammed into the driver’s side of Frazier’s Jeep, at nearly 80 miles per hour. Injuries Frazier sustained as a result of the crash were the cause of his death, the complaint states.
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