The prosecutor who indicted Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has sold the Minneapolis home amid security concerns of the protests

The prosecutor who first indicted former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd has been forced to sell his house and increased security measures after crowds of hundreds to more than 1,000 protesters gathered repeatedly shown on its doorstep last summer, according to a report.

Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office Mike Freeman charged Chauvin with Floyd’s death on May 29, 2020, four days after a viral video of a bystander captured the Minneapolis policeman with his knee pressed to his neck of black man handcuffed for several minutes on Memorial Day.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison quickly took over the prosecution for the case, but large crowds maintained their presence outside Freeman’s Minneapolis home he owned for 13 years. Protesters claimed Freeman was not impartial and appeared to side with the police.

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Amid a barrage of public criticism communicated via email, phone calls and social media, Hennepin County spent around $ 19,000 on salaries and overtime for sheriff’s deputies to keep Freeman safe between the 27th. May and early June 2020, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, citing the county attorney’s office and financial records obtained by the newspaper.

Freeman’s office received nearly 4 million emails and 29,000 voicemail messages regarding Chauvin’s case, most of which were received in the first two weeks after Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020. The county also spent 9,385 $ additional to hire a private company to conduct a security review. for an assistant county attorney involved in the case to assess any potential danger to the official’s normal routine.

Freeman’s office is still helping Ellison with the case involving Floyd’s death.

While he hasn’t publicly provided a reason, Freeman listed his Minneapolis home in July 2020 for $ 749,000, according to online real estate records. The house, which suffered damage for several months, didn’t sell until December 2020 for $ 600,000 – less than the $ 629,000 Freeman and his wife bought it in 2007.

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In January 2021, the Minneapolis City Appraisal Office valued the home at $ 826,000 the month after Freeman sold the home.

Last summer, activists launched a campaign called “Remember Mike Freeman,” regularly showing up at protests outside the attorney’s home to collect signatures from residents of Hennepin County – though the group said it was not responsible for organizing such demonstrations. Activists took issue with the remarks Freeman made at a press conference on May 28, 2020.

“It is a violation of my ethics to speak out and assess the evidence before an impeachment decision and I will not do it,” Freeman said at the time. “I’ll say this: This video is graphic, horrible and terrible and no one should be doing it. But my job at the end of the day is to prove it. [Chauvin] violated criminal law. “

His office indicted Chauvin the next day and issued a statement saying his remarks were misinterpreted and meant he was in favor of the prosecution case considering all the evidence.

Freeman, whose term expires in 2022, has indicted two officers with civil death – Chauvin and Mohamed Noor, who was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter in the shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in 2017. But activists say the lawyer did not charge other officers with the deaths of black men such as Jamar Clark, who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police in 2015.

The Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately return a request for comment from Fox News.

Another official, Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr Andrew Baker, has also come under public criticism after ruling Floyd’s cause of death as cardiopulmonary arrest. Lawyers for Floyd’s family hired private doctors to perform an independent autopsy which ruled the cause of death as mechanical asphyxiation. Both autopsies ruled the death as homicide.

The medical examiner’s office declined to confirm to Fox News any active or inactive cases involving potential threats against officials.

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The office “cannot comment on specific threats against individuals, employees or the nature and volume of those threats,” a Hennepin County spokesperson said in an email. “All threats to the facility or employees have been reported to authorities for proper investigation.”

“The role of Hennepin County in the trial is to ensure that the Fourth District Court can conduct its affairs in a safe and efficient manner,” the statement continued. “To do this, it is necessary to restrict access to the Hennepin County government center to court-related services. Additional security measures have been implemented inside and outside the building.”