Four kids between the ages of 11 and 14 were inside a stolen Kia when they were shot over the weekend.
MINNEAPOLIS — In a fiery press conference Monday night, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara accused Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty of being untruthful in a press release her office sent out in response to the four children ages 11 to 14 who were shot while driving a stolen car.
“In fact, two of the kids involved in this incident are in the County Attorney’s office’s YGVI program. So for her to say anything else is simply not true,” O’Hara said.
Moriarty’s press release stated that “None of the children aged 11 to 13 who were shot while riding in a stolen car over the weekend had been referred to our office by law enforcement for youth auto theft early intervention.”
The press release goes on to tout the effectiveness of that intervention program. But it doesn’t mention …