On a summer afternoon in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, a dedicated police officer, Scott Thomas Patrick, a 47-year-old Caucasian male, began what he likely anticipated would be a routine traffic stop on July 30, 2014. An officer with 19 years of service, he was the most senior member of the Mendota Heights Police Department. As he stood beside his patrol car at the intersection of Dodd Road and Smith Avenue, the situation escalated with shocking suddenness. The driver of the vehicle fired multiple
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