Unicorn Riot | Ex. 83 Brian Kjellberg Murder Trial Exhibits - Body-Worn Camera - Officer Brouwer @UnicornRiot | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Police Interview Kjellberg in Back of Squad Car -- A short time after Brian Kjellberg fatally stabbed AJ Stewart on Dec. 2, 2021, Saint Paul Police (SPPD) officers arrested him and placed him in the backseat of a squad car. An 8-minute clip of video from Officer Chad Brouwer’s Body-Worn Camera taken from 8:07 p.m. was shown to the jury. The video starts with officer Brouwer reading Kjellberg his rights. Kjellberg then explains his version of events to Brouwer.
Over 100 items were introduced as evidence in Brian Kjellberg’s murder trial. Unicorn Riot obtained access to all of the trial exhibits and is publishing all of them in the public interest, along with dozens of court documents and all of the hearing and trial transcripts. View them all in the document vault in our full special, Killed by a Vigilante Who Received No Prison Time: The Murder of AJ Stewart: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/killed-by-a-vigilante-who-received-no-prison-time-the-murder-of-aj-stewart/
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In the capital city of Minnesota, a middle-aged white man was given no prison time after being convicted of murder for fatally stabbing an unarmed Black man. The 2021 murder of Arnell ‘AJ’ Stewart and the following conviction and sentencing of Brian Kjellberg provides a look at how racial dynamics play a favorable role for certain killers within the criminal justice system.
You may have never heard their names before but the story is a familiar one — the racially charged killing of AJ Stewart, 27, was quickly compared to Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery. Kjellberg, who was 50 years old at the time, was dubbed “Saint Paul’s version of George Zimmerman, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan.” (Zimmerman killed Martin and the McMichaels and Bryan killed Arbery.)
Kjellberg was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder by a jury in March 2023. The guilty verdict was rendered in just 90 minutes following a four-day trial after Ramsey County prosecutors ignored pleas from Stewart’s family and advocates for first-degree murder and hate crimes charges.
Despite the state asking for 12.5 years in prison, Ramsey County Judge Leonardo Castro gave Kjellberg a dispositional departure and sentenced him to 364 days in jail.
Full report and videos: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/killed-by-a-vigilante-who-received-no-prison-time-the-murder-of-aj-stewart/
More on the murder of AJ Stewart: https://unicornriot.ninja/aj-stewart/
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Police Interview Kjellberg in Back of Squad Car -- A short time after Brian Kjellberg fatally stabbed AJ Stewart on Dec. 2, 2021, Saint Paul Police (SPPD) officers arrested him and placed him in the backseat of a squad car. An 8-minute clip of video from Officer Chad Brouwer’s Body-Worn Camera taken from 8:07 p.m. was shown to the jury. The video starts with officer Brouwer reading Kjellberg his rights. Kjellberg then explains his version of events to Brouwer.
Over 100 items were introduced as evidence in Brian Kjellberg’s murder trial. Unicorn Riot obtained access to all of the trial exhibits and is publishing all of them in the public interest, along with dozens of court documents and all of the hearing and trial transcripts. View them all in the document vault in our full special, Killed by a Vigilante Who Received No Prison Time: The Murder of AJ Stewart: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/killed-by-a-vigilante-who-received-no-prison-time-the-murder-of-aj-stewart/
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In the capital city of Minnesota, a middle-aged white man was given no prison time after being convicted of murder for fatally stabbing an unarmed Black man. The 2021 murder of Arnell ‘AJ’ Stewart and the following conviction and sentencing of Brian Kjellberg provides a look at how racial dynamics play a favorable role for certain killers within the criminal justice system.
You may have never heard their names before but the story is a familiar one — the racially charged killing of AJ Stewart, 27, was quickly compared to Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery. Kjellberg, who was 50 years old at the time, was dubbed “Saint Paul’s version of George Zimmerman, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan.” (Zimmerman killed Martin and the McMichaels and Bryan killed Arbery.)
Kjellberg was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder by a jury in March 2023. The guilty verdict was rendered in just 90 minutes following a four-day trial after Ramsey County prosecutors ignored pleas from Stewart’s family and advocates for first-degree murder and hate crimes charges.
Despite the state asking for 12.5 years in prison, Ramsey County Judge Leonardo Castro gave Kjellberg a dispositional departure and sentenced him to 364 days in jail.
Full report and videos: https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/killed-by-a-vigilante-who-received-no-prison-time-the-murder-of-aj-stewart/
More on the murder of AJ Stewart: https://unicornriot.ninja/aj-stewart/
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