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Posted inPOLICING & JUSTICE

Sondra Samuels, Minneapolis nonprofit leader, reaches wrongful death settlement in the fatal drowning of a 6-year-old neighbor.

Newly obtained records show Don and Sondra Samuels took Isaac Childress III on a bike ride to Boom Island. There, the boy drowned in the Mississippi River. Isaac was a “NAZ scholar” with the Northside Achievement Zone, where Sondra Samuels is the CEO. She and her husband Don Samuels, a former City Council member, recently sued Minneapolis over policing and the public safety ballot amendment.