# Map Kong *Man shot and killed by Burnsville police officers on June 22, 2016; a Dakota County grand jury found the officers justified.* Map Kong, 38, was killed by three [[Burnsville]] police officers in a McDonald's parking lot on June 22, 2016. The project's at-issue entry, drawing on CBS News and Patch reporting, records it as Burnsville's first fatal officer-involved shooting in 35 years.[^1] A [[Dakota County grand jury]] found the officers justified.[^1][^2] According to that reporting, body-camera audio recorded before the shooting captured the words "We can bust the window and Tase him if you want," and "If he gets out, I'll go lethal."[^1] The entry does not say which officer spoke either sentence. The project's dossier on the Dakota County review process places the Kong outcome beside the county's stated principle for reviewing police shootings and beside other Dakota County and statewide outcomes.[^2] ## Who Map Kong was 38 when three Burnsville officers killed him in a McDonald's parking lot in Burnsville, [[Minnesota]].[^1] He is listed in the Dakota County use-of-force ledger of the project's at-issue record.[^1] The pack carries no other biographical information about him. ## What The shooting took place on June 22, 2016. The at-issue entry's sources are news reports from cbsnews.com and patch.com, which the entry cites for the date, the location, the number of officers, the body-camera audio and the 35-year interval.[^1] The case went to a Dakota County grand jury, which found the officers justified.[^1][^2] ## How The dossier records the county's stated principle for police shootings: officers "need to be held accountable like everyone else." It also records that every fatal officer-involved shooting in Dakota County since 1990 has gone to a grand jury, which receives "a fair and unbiased presentation" and no recommendations.[^2] Beside that principle, the dossier lists three Dakota County outcomes:[^2] | Case | Date | Outcome | |---|---|---| | [[Brandon Rodriguez]], [[Hastings]] | July 2008 | Grand jury no bill | | Map Kong, Burnsville | June 22, 2016 | Grand jury: justified | | [[Isak Aden]], [[Eagan]] | July 2, 2019 | [[county attorney]] declination, Nov. 13, 2019 | The dossier also gives a statewide baseline for the same period, citing *Star Tribune* reporting. Of 83 officer-involved shootings the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigated between 2003 and 2013, across 65 departments, 44 were fatal and 39 caused injury. Eighty-two were found justified and one was not.[^2] In the Aden case, which the county attorney declined to charge, the dossier records the later federal civil proceedings. On September 29, 2023, Judge [[Jerry W. Blackwell]] denied qualified immunity to every officer who fired and to three supervisors on the less-lethal force. He also allowed the municipal-liability claim against Eagan to proceed. On February 12, 2025, the Eighth Circuit reversed on qualified immunity. The dossier records that no settlement was paid.[^2] On June 4, 2020, the [[Minnesota County Attorneys Association]] voted at an emergency meeting to hand every police-involved death case to the state Attorney General. The dossier records that [[Backstrom]], who twice led the association, supported the transfer. He said it would "improve public trust and bring consistency." The dossier records that the change applied going forward and that no prior case was reopened.[^2] ## In the at-issue record The entry, AI-Dakota-026 (package Dakota, rank 26), sets the pre-shooting body-camera audio beside the grand jury's justification finding.[^1] The entry lists as its anchor a White House presidential action, *Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud* (March 2026).[^3] The pack does not explain how that document relates to the Kong shooting. ## In the Minnesota record ### Who - Map Kong, 38, killed by three Burnsville police officers.[^1] ### What - A Dakota County grand jury found the officers justified.[^1][^2] ### When - June 22, 2016.[^1][^2] ### Where - A McDonald's parking lot in Burnsville, Dakota County.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *At-issue entry AI-Dakota-026*, § II "The Use-of-Force Ledger" (package Dakota) — Kong's age, the date, the location, the three officers, the first-in-35-years statement, the grand jury finding and the quoted body-camera audio, as reported by cbsnews.com and patch.com (n_sources 2, news). The pack carries no URL for the underlying reports. [^2]: Project dossier, *Backstrom_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-02.md*, § III (validated) — the county's stated principle and grand jury practice; the Rodriguez, Kong and Aden outcomes; the BCA 2003–2013 baseline; the Aden federal rulings of Sept. 29, 2023 and Feb. 12, 2025; and the June 4, 2020 county attorneys' vote. The source URLs named inside the dossier are not on this pack's allowed list. [^3]: The White House, *Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud* (March 2026) — the document listed as the anchor of at-issue entry AI-Dakota-026. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/establishing-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/