Crime Watch has discovered a bombshell revelation.
The mother of six kids who were seemingly left unattended to be tear-gassed in a vehicle at last week’s north Minneapolis riot following an ICE-involved shooting is none other than Destiny Bradshaw, who was indicted on first-degree murder in the killing of a man during a robbery in 2019 in north Minneapolis.
Bradshaw, now 26, has since legally changed her last name to Jackson, to match her husband/partner, Shawn Jackson. The name change was allowed by Hennepin County courts, despite Bradshaw being a convicted felon, resulting from the murder case.
Crime Watch posted overnight the discovery of video of last Wednesday’s riot that appeared to contradict the story the Jacksons told media about the events leading up to their children being affected by tear gas deployed by law enforcement to quell the riot.
The Jacksons claimed they were just passing through the area of 23rd and Lyndale Avenue North on the way home from their son’s basketball game at Andersen Middle School in south Minneapolis (school schedule shows the game started at 5 p.m.).
The Jacksons claimed in media interviews that they approached the area to find lights and crime tape. After asking bystanders what was going on, they learned that there had been an ICE shooting. Destiny Jackson told KARE 11 media that they tried to leave the area but got stuck in traffic.
However, livestream video from the scene that evening captured both Shawn and Destiny milling in the crowd starting about 8:30 p.m., according to timestamps in the livestreamer’s video. The children and their vehicle were nowhere to be seen. The livestream started at 8:16 p.m. Shawn and Destiny first appear in the video at about the 15- and 17- to 19-minute marks, which would be 8:30-8:35 p.m., based on when the livestream started at 8:16 p.m. The video even shows armed federal law enforcement in fatigues walking past Destiny in that time frame. Her casual reaction showed no urgency to check on the children or leave the scene.
Minneapolis Fire Department emergency dispatch audio documents that responders were first dispatched to the baby being tear-gassed at 9:22 p.m., fully 45 minutes after the Jacksons can be seen in the video.
The Jacksons’ narrative shifted in subsequent media interviews, in which Destiny claimed she saw her mother in the crowd and was coaxing her to leave. Again, the livestream shows no urgency to that effect.
The time gap between the Jacksons’ appearances in the livestream and when responders were dispatched to the baby being tear-gassed raises questions about where the children were during that time period in the freezing cold weather, and begs questions about the Jacksons’ claim of being “trapped” in their vehicle.
2019 murder
Destiny Bradshaw was among several people charged in the Dec. 19, 2019, murder of a man in north Minneapolis during a robbery plot.
According to court documents, Bradshaw was initially charged with second-degree murder and was later indicted on first-degree murder. Charges in the case describe that Bradshaw targeted males on Facebook under the ruse of wanting marijuana. When one of the males showed up in a vehicle in the alley, Bradshaw’s accomplices, Tyreik Lavel Perkins and James Tyjuan Moore, approached the vehicle and tried to open the door. When they couldn’t open the door, Moore started shooting at the vehicle. Perkins later told police that Moore just looked at him and started laughing. The two then fled the scene back to Bradshaw’s apartment. The victim was subsequently pronounced deceased, having been shot in the back.
Bradshaw was eventually offered a plea deal by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office including an amended charge of aiding an offender after-the-fact, to which she pled guilty.
At sentencing, the first- and second-degree murder charges were dismissed, and Bradshaw’s 48-month jail sentence was stayed. Instead, Bradshaw was sentenced to 28 days already served in jail and was placed on probation for a term of five years, to expire in June 2026. Bradshaw was reportedly pregnant at the time, and a source tells Crime Watch that the pregnancy played into the lenient sentence.
Bradshaw still owes restitution in the case in the amount of $913.71.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson have raised nearly $200,000 in a GoFundMe account based on their story of their children being tear-gassed at the riot and states they were “innocent bystanders.”
Crime Watch will continue to follow any developments stemming from these revelations.
This article was originally published on X by Crime Watch Minneapolis.
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