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Chauvin trial footnotes I want to add a few footnotes in the form of bullet points to our coverage of the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd: • The thirteenth and fourteenth seated jurors served as alternates and were released at the end of the trial. Juror number 96 — Lisa Christensen — was the thirteenth seated juror. She made the media rounds last week in the aftermath of the verdict. KARE 11’s Lou Raguse interviewed Christensen in...

KCUR 89.3 Danny Cox is an avid consumer of news from his home in Kansas City, Kansas. For him, the Chauvin verdict is a milestone on the long arc of history. As a kid, Danny Cox saw photographs of lynching victims in magazines. As a grandfather, he saw George Floyd being killed on video. For him, this moment is big — and much longer than one year in the making. For more stories like this one, subscribe to Real Humans on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The tension was palpable as a verdict announc...

The shooting of Daunte Wright has found many taking to the streets to protest, and Wright’s family has also been vocal about the situation th...

What Oscar favorite ‘Chicago 7’ got wrong, from an ex-Rutgers professor who was there Today 9:00 AM Anti-war activist Jerry Rubin, along with other defendants in the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, speaks to the press in this February 1970 photo. Front row, from left: Rennie Davis, Rubin, Abbie Hoffman. Back row, from left: Lee Weiner, Bob Lamb and Thomas Hayden. (AP PHOTO)ASSOCIATED PRESS Facebook Share With six nominations including Best Picture, Netflix’s “The Trial of The Chicag...

BLM protesters crossing Brooklyn Bridge are pepper sprayed by cops for blocking traffic Dozens of Black Lives Matter protesters were seen clashing with the NYPD on Saturday while marching across the Brooklyn Bridge around 10.30pm  Dramatic video taken at scene shows a scuffle between police bicycle officers and demonstrators who were hit by the bikes and sprayed with pepper spray During the incident, several protesters were given appearance tickets for obstruction of vehicular traffic; no inju...

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik You can’t swing a cat without hitting some newly-erected, chain-link enclosure these days. Here in Los Angeles and across the country, most notably in the District of Columbia — or wherever it is — the Controlling Class (read, Leftist politicos and their media and Hollywood propagandists) seems to have fallen head over heels for these industrial-chic palisades. In Washington, the Left continues to beat the drum of insurrection, and an imminent second siege by right-...

Florida congresswoman and former police chief Val Demings defended the officer who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant last week.

Will Stewart Updated: Apr 25 2021, 5:56 ET Will Stewart Invalid Date, A HEN party turned to tragedy when a bridegroom drowned along with two female guests after a bridge collapsed. Businessman Andrey Bukvetsky had been driving a group to the pre-wedding party when the bridge suddenly came down in the Primorsky region of eastern Russia. 8 8 8 8 The Lexus became submerged after falling into a riverCredit: Vesti Three women - including a beauty queen - miraculously escaped through the Lexus smash...

Mitch Albom: Careful what we wish for in eliminating the police For those of you who want a defunded police force, just take a look at whats happening in Haiti and the relationship between officers and citizens. Detroit Free Press When U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked last summer what society would look like with defunded police, she naively answered, “a suburb.” Not exactly. I know what a nation with weakened or underfunded police looks like. I see it every month in Haiti. Some...

CBS News Lessons from the Derek Chauvin verdict Over and over again, he said it: "Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw." Prosecutor Steve Schleicher, in final arguments to the jury in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, said: "Its exactly what you saw with your eyes. Its exactly what you knew. Its what you felt in your gut. Its what you now know in your heart. ... This wasnt policing – this was murder." From every angle, jurors saw, and took in, what Darnella Frazier, then 17, dared to recor...