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Prosecutors Can’t Run for President Anymore
Myon Burrell was 16-years-old in 2002 when he visited his grandmother in Minneapolis for Thanksgiving. Although the holiday was supposed to bring together his family, little did they know that it would tear them apart. Within 24 hours of arriving in Minneapolis, the police arrested Myon for a gang shooting he wasn’t even involved in.
The shooters, although failing to hit their planned target, accidently shot and killed Tyesha Edwards, an eleven-year-old girl, through the window of her home nearby. With the public outcry following her murder, police were hasty to pin the blame on a suspect. And that suspect became Myon.
Why police targeted Myon is anyone’s guess. But they did. The police fueled the rumor mill with money, offering cash for hearsay and paying people who blamed Myon. They told the self-confessed real gunman that if he wanted to see the outside of a prison ever again, he had to tell them Myon was the one who pulled the trigger. When the getaway driver provided a different name and photo for the killer, police ignored it to avoid “muddying up” the case. They ignored the fact that their star eyewitness had been standing 120 feet away and on the opposite side of a wall, interviewing the witness for eight…
