Yia Xiong’s daughter sues St. Paul police over fatal shooting, says officers ‘deliberately ignored’ policy reforms

The daughter of a 65-year-old man who she says was deaf in one ear and couldn’t understand police has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against St. Paul police and the city after an officer shot him last year. The action comes a month after prosecutors announced Officer Abdirahmin Dahir’s use of deadly force against Yia Xiong was “objectively reasonable to stop the deadly threat posed” by Xiong, who they said was armed with a 12-inch knife, and was legal under Minnesota law. The lawsuit was filed by Yia Xiong’s daughter,...