A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop last year, ruling that the trooper's actions did not violate the law.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel granted Trooper Ryan Londregan's motion to dismiss the suit filed against him by the family of Ricky Cobb II. Brasel found that Londregan did not act unreasonably when he fired his weapon at Cobb as the man's vehicle began moving forward with another state trooper partly inside. A suit against a second trooper, Brett Seide, remains pending.
