Cop shot Native American man 17 times in 4 seconds; court ruled it was 'reasonable' [View all]

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A federal appeals court found that a BIA officer’s decision on the night of Oct. 23, 2017, was “reasonable” and that the U.S. is therefore not liable for his death.

Ted McDermott Public Service Journalism Team Sep 24, 2025 Updated 2 hrs ago

PORCUPINE, N.D. — Corrine Kopp doesn’t want to hear any more apologies.

“‘I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,’” Kopp said during a recent interview, repeating the phrase she’s heard over and over again in the eight years since a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer shot and killed her common-law husband and the father of her three children on the side of a highway on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. “I'm so sick of those words.”

What Kopp wants instead is justice for what she believes was an unwarranted and illegal killing.

But Kopp’s long battle to hold accountable the government and the officer who shot her husband, Ryan Gipp, for that perceived injustice ended in defeat last week.

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Original PAY link: https://omaha.com/news/nation-world/crime-courts/article_3d0747ff-3f83-506a-b4ca-a1934932faa9.html


Corrine Kopp is photographed April 26, 2025, in Porcupine, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, where her husband Ryan died in an encounter with a federal police officer in 2017.