Minneapolis police officer fired after tipping off brother in active case
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A Minneapolis police officer was fired in April after the department determined she warned her brother that police were looking for him in connection to a recent shooting.
The MPD found Chanica Hall had committed violations of department policy including disclosing confidential information, neglecting duty and intentionally omitting information about her brother during a background check when she was hired.
An April memo signed by then-chief Brian O’Hara laid out the details of the MPD disciplinary investigation:
On Sept. 18, 2025, Hall saw a document with stills from surveillance footage depicting a man who looked like her brother who the police believed was connected to a Sept. 14 shooting. Hall called and texted her brother and took a photo of the image of the suspect with her personal phone and sent it to her brother. Hall’s brother was later apprehended by police and charged with assault.
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According to the memo, Hall told the department she didn’t mean to interfere with an investigation and didn’t realize the information was confidential.
“I can see how that looks now that everything is getting put together …. [T]hat was not my intent at all,” she said, according to the memo.
“My intent was to tell him to turn himself in, and I thought I was helping the whole situation if that was him because there's no name. So, my intent in my head was, honest to God, to tell him to turn himself if, if he's doing something,” Hall said.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office considered charging Hall with aiding an offender and obstruction but ultimately declined to charge her.
“While Ms. Hall's conduct led to her termination, there is a more rigorous statutory test when analyzing potential felony charges,” an office spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday.
“Insufficient evidence existed to prove all elements for felony charges of either aiding an offender or obstruction, as is required under statute. Because the state could not meet its burden on all elements, felony charges were not an option," the statement continued.
