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By Deena Winter, Minnesota Reformer The Minneapolis police chief ordered a full investigation last month into his department’s hiring of a Virginia police officer who repeatedly Tasered and struck a disoriented, unarmed Black man just days after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. But Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara signed the letter offering Tyler Timberlake a job