Throughout her career, Amy Klobuchar has bragged about how, when she headed up the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office 17 years ago, she put the teenage killer of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards in prison for life. Now, new evidence shows that the case was flawed
Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Throughout her career, Minnesota senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has bragged about how, when she headed up the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office 17 years ago, she put the teenage killer of an 11-year-old girl named Tyesha Edwards in prison for life. She trotted out the anecdote during her successful 2006 Senate campaign, and again during a Democratic presidential debate last fall.
Additionally, Burrell’s co-defendants have confessed to their involvement in Edwards’s death, and they all say Burrell wasn’t there. Burrell had an alibi that day, but the police reportedly didn’t follow up on it. One of Burrell’s co-defendants, Ike Tyson, insists that he was the one who pulled the trigger; he says he fired off the rounds with the intention of scaring a member of a rival gang, and that it wasn’t until later that evening he learned of Edwards’s death.
It’s worth nothing that in her eight years as county attorney, cops and county sheriffs killed 29 civilians. Klobuchar’s office did not criminally charge any of the officers involved.
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