MINNEAPOLIS – Keith Ellison has been a civil rights activist, a defense attorney, a cable-TV favorite, a rabble-rouser in Congress, a party operator and an occasional provocateur on Twitter.
But he’s only rarely been a prosecutor — until now. The Minnesota attorney general is at the helm of the George Floyd murder case, certain to be among the most scrutinized in the country and already the flashpoint behind an emerging national movement to root out racism in the criminal justice system.Ellison, the first African American elected to his job, is now tasked with nothing less than making that system work.
Expectations are high, with many people finding it hard to imagine a failure to convict the four officers charged in Floyd's death.“What we.