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Mounds View City Council January 10, 2022 Regular Meeting Page 2 he be provided a meeting with the Mayor and the Police Chief to discuss these matters. He stated he has no information on what has taken place and has been completely ghosted by the individuals who have been involved. He indicated it has been very difficult on his family having no information as to what took place. He reported in June of 2021 Governor Walz insisted that this type of footage be made available to family members within five days of an incident that resulted in death. He noted he has gone a month and a half without any information regarding the death of his son. Michelle Gross, President of Communities United Against Police Brutality, explained she worked with a Minneapolis based organization that addresses police issues. She discussed Minnesota State Statute 13.82 and 13.85 noting these were the comprehensive law enforcement data statutes. She stated shortly after Noah Kelley was killed by a Mounds View officer and New Brighton officer her organization submitted a 13.82 data request to Mounds View and the City responded quickly to this request. However, what has not happened for this family was that the City has not released the body camera footage or squad car footage. She explained the City has the ability to release other data and noted the City was choosing not to. She indicated this deeply unfair to the family. She reported in Brooklyn Center after Daunte Wright was killed, Mayor Mike Elliot made the choice to release this footage and this helped to quell the dissent in the community. She encouraged the Mayor to acknowledge some level of responsibility and have empathy for the family who lost a loved one and have the body camera footage released. Julie Bourque, resident of Brooklyn Center, noted she was a member of the multi-cultural advisory committee for the Brooklyn Center Police Department. She discussed the matters she has been involved in behind the scenes. She noted she was a friend of Brian Kelley’s and has been for years. She discussed how the City was hurting this family deeply and creating more trauma by not releasing the footage. She encouraged the City to have mercy on this family and to release the body camera footage. Toshira Garraway explained she was the founder of Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence. She reported she was also the significant other of Justin Tygen who was brutally beaten to death by the St. Paul Police and thrown into a trash dumpster on August 19, 2009. She stated she was in attendance to stand in solidarity with Noah Kelley’s family and indicated she knows first hand the trauma of losing a family member at the hands of law enforcement. She knew what it was like to want information in order to find closure from a devastating event and how it feels to be denied this information. She encouraged Mayor Mueller to meet with the Kelley family along with the Police Chief to figure out what can be done to get this family what they need. She reported the State of Minnesota was in an emergency at this time. She noted there have been over 500 lives lost at the hands of law enforcement in Minnesota. She did not want the pattern of police killings and cover ups to continue. She believed that the City Council were good people and that they were interested in being transparent and honest. She indicated the City Council had the power to release the body camera footage and should do what was right for the Kelley family. Lisa Kelley, resident of Eagan, stated she was Noah’s stepmom. She discussed why the body camera footage was so important in that it would help answer a lot of questions the family had. She explained the liquor store was supposed to be closed at 6:00 p.m. and he was in there alone at 7:15 p.m. when he was shot. She understood the lady working at the liquor store told the police