In a statement, Jay-Z thanked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for 'for doing what's right and calling in the Attorney General Keith Ellison to take over the George Floyd case'
"I prevail on every politician, prosecutor and officer in the country to have the courage to do what is right," the hip-hop star wrote in a Twitter post on Sunday.
In a statement posted on the rapper's criminal justice reform advocacy group REFORM Alliance's Twitter page, Jay-Z wrote that he had an "earnest conversation" with Walz and thanked him "for doing what's right and calling in the Attorney General Keith Ellison to take over the George Floyd case."
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