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  "name": "Jacob Frey",
  "office": null,
  "role": "Mayor of Minneapolis",
  "country": "US",
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      "title": "Minneapolis police projectile permanently blinds photojournalist Linda Tirado",
      "occurred_on": "2020-05-29",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "US-MN",
      "level": "municipal",
      "tactic_primary": "detention_and_violence",
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      ],
      "leader_slug": "jacob-frey",
      "leader_name": "Jacob Frey",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Tirado was documenting the police response to protests over George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis when she was struck; a federal judge later found her case was one of numerous similar reports of journalists being hit by less-lethal munitions during the same unrest.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2022-05-26",
      "outcome_note": "The city paid $600,000 in a 2022 settlement while continuing to deny that an identified officer fired the projectile.",
      "stage": "punish",
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      "rsf": {
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        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Freelance photojournalist Linda Tirado was struck in the face by a less-lethal round fired by Minneapolis police while covering protests over George Floyd's killing, permanently blinding her in one eye; the city settled her lawsuit for $600,000 in 2022 while continuing to deny an officer had fired the shot.",
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