Did the Minneapolis Police Department report any officer-involved shootings in 2025 in MPD or BCA records?
Executive summary
Yes. Public records and agency releases show Minneapolis had officer-involved shootings recorded in 2025: the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) issued updates and identified officers who used force in a Minneapolis incident, city data portals list officer-involved shooting datasets, and the Hennepin County Attorney completed a 2025 review finding MPD action lawful [1] [2] [3]. Available reporting and open data confirm at least one documented MPD officer-involved shooting in 2025, though the public record in these sources does not provide a full catalog of every incident for the year [2] [4].
1. What the official records show: BCA and MPD public releases document a 2025 OIS
The state investigative agency, the BCA, publicly identified officers who used force in a Minneapolis incident and described a sequence in which officers returned fire after being shot at, resulting in a suspect’s death; that BCA release is part of the official record related to an officer-involved shooting connected to Minneapolis [1]. The City of Minneapolis maintains MPD public information releases and a specific open dataset for “Police Officer Involved Shootings,” which serve as the city’s formal channels for reporting these critical incidents [5] [2]. Taken together, those sources establish that at least one MPD-involved shooting was logged in 2025 and was the subject of state and local releases [1] [2].
2. Prosecutor’s review: a completed Hennepin County finding in 2025
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office completed a review of an officer-involved shooting in 2025 and publicly announced that it found Minneapolis officers acted lawfully, a formal prosecutorial determination tied to an MPD incident that year [3]. That announcement demonstrates the case progressed through the typical post-shooting administrative and legal review channels used in Minnesota, moving beyond just investigatory reporting to a legal conclusion by the county attorney [3].
3. Data availability and limits: city open data exists but public specifics are incomplete
Minneapolis publishes an officer-involved shooting dataset and a broader 2025 police incidents dataset on the city’s open data portal, which are the authoritative public repositories for incident-level records [2] [4]. However, the materials in the provided reporting do not include an exhaustive export or line-by-line count of every 2025 OIS; therefore, while the existence of recorded 2025 OIS incidents is confirmed, this review cannot enumerate every event or produce a complete incident list from the supplied snippets alone [2] [4].
4. Context and competing narratives: investigation control and withheld footage
The handling of evidence and which agency leads an investigation has been a point of contention: reports note the MPD agreed to temporarily withhold body-worn camera footage at the BCA’s request in at least one high-profile case, and there have been disputes about federal involvement and BCA access in other shootings—factors that complicate public understanding and fuel competing narratives about transparency [6] [7]. Such procedural disputes do not negate that an officer-involved shooting was recorded in official MPD/BCA records in 2025, but they do help explain why the public record can feel opaque while legal and investigatory processes are ongoing [6] [7].
5. What remains uncertain from the supplied reporting
The available sources confirm documented 2025 officer-involved shootings and at least one prosecutorial review concluding lawful conduct, yet they do not provide a definitive count of all MPD officer-involved shootings in 2025 within these snippets nor full incident-level detail for each case—those specifics would require downloading and reviewing the city’s open datasets or BCA case releases in full [2] [4] [1] [3]. Alternative viewpoints—advocates calling for more transparency, or officials citing investigative integrity—are both present in the public record, and the supplied sources show the dispute over disclosure rather than an absence of incidents [6] [7].