St. Paul Mayor Kaoly Her is denying a request for independent probe into violent police response that injured three journalists during a November U.S. Immigration and Customs arrest, saying an internal investigation should finish first.
In December, the St. Paul Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission requested an independent investigation into the St. Paul Police response late last year that turned violent.
It left three photojournalists injured during a Nov. 25 ICE arrest in the 600 block of Rose Street East in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood…