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¬2019 LOCAL NEWS PULITZER FINALIST
T H E C O R O NAV I RU S’ TO L L
TA ST E
TO P N EWS B U S I N E S S S P O RT S
6,394,000 cases worldwide
381,800deaths worldwide
1,841,442 cases in the U.S.
106,195deaths in the U.S.
25,870cases in Minn.
1,086deaths in Minn.
Mealtime on four wheels: Without downtown office workers, Twin Cities food trucks cast a wide net for customers. T1
Tit-for-tat: Trump to block Chinese passenger airlines from flying to U.S. A4
Obama steps forward: Amid historic crises, an increasingly public role. A2
Small businesses pivot: Some distribute food and other essential items. D1
‘COVID is coming’: More restaurants halt takeout after staff test positive. D1
Wolves shut out: Won’t make the cut under NBA’s return-to-play proposal. C1
A Zoom call on race: U coach Pitino invites players to speak, and listens. C1
Numbers as of 8 p.m. Wednesday • Sources: Johns Hopkins University (worldwide), New York Times (U.S.), Minnesota Department of Health (Minnesota)
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Floyd family calls AG Ellison’s move a ‘bittersweet moment’
Charges for all 4CHAUVIN NOW FACES SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
JERRY HOLT • [email protected] Brown Sr., center, father of Ferguson, Mo., police shooting victim Michael Brown, joined others as charges in the George Floyd case were announced.
By STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR and CHAO XIONG Star Tribune staff
Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office on Wednes-day upgraded charges against the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck and charged the other three officers at the scene with aiding and abet-ting murder.
The decision came just two days after Ellison took over the prosecution from Hen-nepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and followed more than a week of sometimes-violent protests calling for tougher charges against for-mer Minneapolis police offi-cer Derek Chauvin, who had pinned Floyd to the ground and held him there for nearly nine minutes. Protesters also demanded the arrests of the three other former officers who were present but failed to intervene. All three were booked into the Hennepin County jail on Wednesday.
“To the Floyd family, to our beloved community, and everyone that is watching, I say: George Floyd mattered. He was loved. His life was important. His life had value. We will seek justice for him and for you and we will find
J Alexander Kueng
Tou Thao
Thomas Lane
Derek Chauvin
By JEREMY OLSON [email protected]
An anti-malaria drug that
has been trumpeted as a ther-apy for COVID-19 was unable in a University of Minnesota clinical trial to prevent the onset of the infectious disease.
The results of the nation’s first randomized trial with the drug, hydroxychloroquine, against COVID-19 will disap-point doctors who had hoped for new therapies amid the pandemic. Many prescrib-ers had given it off-label to COVID-19 patients — in the
absence of other options — and President Donald Trump had been an early champion of the drug and said in mid-May that he was taking it for the pre-ventive benefit, a benefit that the U study could not verify.
“While we are disap-pointed that this did not pre-
vent COVID-19, we are pleased that we were able to provide a conclusive answer,” said Dr. David Boulware, leader of the U trial. “Our objective was to find an answer.”
Results published online Wednesday by the New Eng-land Journal of Medicine
showed little difference in the onset of COVID-19 in 414 people who took hydroxy-chloroquine and a compari-son group of 407 that took only folic acid vitamins. All participants had at least mod-erate risk for COVID-19 after being exposed to others in
their homes or workplaces who had the illness.
There was a small differ-ence, as 11.8% of people taking the drug developed COVID-19, compared with 14.3% of those taking vitamins, the study showed. However, that
U trial finds anti-malaria drug does little to prevent COVID-19
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By JOHN REINANand ROCHELLE OLSON Star Tribune staff writers
Standing at the intersection where his brother was pinned to the street by Minneapolis police more than a week ago, Milton Carney spoke with a quiet intensity about the death of George Floyd.
Behind him, hundreds of people had gathered out-side Cup Foods to celebrate the news Wednesday after-noon that three former Min-neapolis police officers had been charged with aiding and abetting murder in Floyd’s death. Charges against a fourth, Derek Chauvin, were upgraded to second-degree
murder in the Memorial Day incident, in which Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes, leading to his death.
“We are glad the system is starting to work for the righ-teous,” said Carney, 45, of Houston. “But this is just the first step. The journey is not over; the fight is not over.
“If y’all want the violence to stop, you got to give them something to make it stop.”
For more than a week, the intersection of 38th Street and S. Chicago Avenue has been a place of intense pas-sion and somber reflection. But Wednesday, as news of the charges against all four
Mood becomes hopeful at Floyd memorial site
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8:08 p.m. Officers Lane and Kueng responded to a call about a man using a counter-feit $20 bill at the Cup Foods store on the corner of Chicago Ave. and E. 38th St. They found Floyd, 46, of St. Louis Park, in the driver’s seat of a nearby car with two passengers. Lane pointed his gun at Floyd and re-holstered it when Floyd placed his hands on the steering wheel.
Lane ordered Floyd out of
the car, then pulled him out and handcuffed him. The com-plaint said he was “calm,” add-ing that after he was seated on the ground, he thanked Lane.
The officers’ body-worn cameras captured the incident.
8:14 p.m. Lane and Kueng walked Floyd to their squad and tried to put him inside. Floyd “stiffened up and fell to
COMPLAINT: FROM CALM TO FATAL
George Floyd was calm during his encounter with Minneapolis police last week, authorities said, but things turned deadly after three officers pinned him to the pavement, where he told officers he could not breathe before eventually losing consciousness. An amended criminal complaint released Wednesday against Derek Chauvin, J Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao offered a revealing new look at the last minutes of Floyd’s life :
By CHAO XIONG • [email protected]
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More autopsy results: Floyd had COVID-19; didn’t contribute to his death. A10
ZSW [C M Y K] A1 Thursday, Jun. 4, 2020
THURSDAYJune 4, 2020
