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Print Daunte Wright was pulled over for expired plates, although he told his mother it was because an air freshener hung from his rearview mirror. Sandra Bland was pulled over for failing to use her turn signal. Philando Castile was pulled over for a broken taillight. You know what happened next. The two men were shot dead by police, and Bland died in jail a few days after she was verbally abused by the Texas state trooper who screamed, “I will light you up!” when she refused to get out of ...

Former Los Angeles County sheriff Jim McDonnell weighs in on FOX News Live Lawmakers in New York introduced joint legislation Saturday that would ban police officers who are forced to resign or are fired over disciplinary issues from being rehired in another jurisdiction in the state. "Accountability is a must," state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Democrat who is proposing the bill, told CBS News. Police officers must be held to a higher standard because of their "power and the privilege to enforce t...

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Updated: Apr 24 2021, 21:07 ET Invalid Date, USE-of-force expert Seth Stoughton said that the cop who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant had no other option but to use deadly force against the teen. “With the caveat that I only know what is shown on the video, I don’t see any clear options or alternatives that were available to the officer,” Seth Stoughton told the Columbus Dispatch. Police officer Nicholas Reardon was criticized for not using different methods to disarm the teen and de-esca...

A MAN has been arrested in Spain for allegedly deliberately infecting 22 people, including three babies, with Covid by coughing.The 40-year-old suspec

Editorial cartoons for April 25, 2021: Chauvin guilty verdict, climate confab Today 5:00 AM Facebook Share After a three-week trial, a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in the May 2020 death of a handcuffed George Floyd. Video evidence presented in court (and previously seen worldwide via social media) showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds until he died. Several editorial cartoonists juxtaposed the image of Lady Justic...

Print At a dinner party in 1935, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was conversing with a young woman who said, “What a wonderful thing is youth!” Shaw sagely replied, “Yes — and what a crime to waste it on children.” The exchange was memorialized in the well-known but acerbic adage: “Youth is wasted on the young.” With all due respect to Shaw, I beg to differ — especially after meeting sisters Nene and Ekene Okolo, ages 20 and 17, who are using their talents to combat racial ...

Advocates warn against complacency after Chauvin verdict Marty Johnson © Getty Images Advocates warn against complacency after Chauvin verdict Lawmakers and advocates say that while the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was a historic milestone, it should not lead to complacency in the fight for racial justice. Chauvin was the first white police officer in Minnesota to be convicted of murdering a Black person, but other shootings in the days surrou...

Maxine Waters fires back at Derek Chauvin judge who scolded her for controversial comments ahead of verdict Updated: Apr 25 2021, 10:08 ET Invalid Date, MAXINE Waters has said the Derek Chauvin trial judge who criticised her for comments head of the verdict is “way off track”. The California Democrat aroused the ire of Judge Peter Cahill, who said Waters comments at a rally in the city on could even see the guilty verdict appealed and overturned. 4 4 Judge Peter Cahill said her words could...

Under new legislation introduced in the state Senate, police officers from other states...