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Daunte Wright, the young black man shot during a traffic stop in Minneapolis, was a “prince” whose life ended too soon at the hands of the police, the Rev Al Sharpton said during an emotional funeral. Hundreds of people wearing Covid masks packed into Shiloh Temple International Ministries to remember Mr Wright, a 20-year-old father-of-one who was shot by a police officer on April 11 in Brooklyn Centre. The funeral was held just two days after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin...

IPR The speakers talked about continuing the fight toward equity for Black Iowans at the Black vigil in Des Moines last night. "Were going to continue to do this. This group of people you see here, were not tired, no, were jaded," Reverend Rob Johnson (second from left) said. "When I say Black lives, you say matter! Black Lives!" Rev. Rob Johnson bobbed his fist as more than one hundred people responded the way he instructed last night at a vigil in a Des Moines park to support central Iowas B...

Some police automatically fear Black men. De-escalation training wont solve that. Police reactions toward Black men like Daunte Wright show officers need training to both de-escalate conflict and reprogram responses based on fear. Kevin Cokley Opinion contributor Police violence against unarmed Black people is as predictable as the rising and setting of the sun. With the trial of Derek Chauvin taking central stage in the news, it seems unfathomable that additional high-profile incidents of poli...

Father Aubrey Wright (L) and mother Katie Wright (2L) give remarks alongside sister Diamond Wright (R) and the Rev. Al Sharpton during a funeral held for Daunte Wright at Shiloh Temple International Ministries on April 22, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop for an active warrant in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11 which sparked days of protests. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Katie and Aubrey Wright struggled through pain to...

In wake of Chauvin verdict, Newtown plans rally, talks on public policy reforms The Newtown Florist Club rally Monday, June 1, 2020, gave opportunity for young people to discuss their feelings on recent protests and the causes behind them as well as plan out what steps they may want to take next during the event where Rose Johnson, Newtown’s executive director, said the gathering is not a protest but a “community organizing event.” ...

Just days after guilty verdicts were handed down for the former Minneapolis police officer whose killing of George Floyd set off nationwide protests and a reckoning over racism, the family of another Black man killed by police, this time in a nearby suburb, is preparing for his Thursday funeral. Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday…

Heartbreaking. That description is undeniable in the otherwise controversial shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by Chicago police. The most obvious headline for the story of the video’s release last week was simple: Police video shows 13-year-old was shot with his hands up. Microseconds matter. But frame grabs of his hands up show only a tiny slice of those fateful early morning hours on March 29. Watching the video posted by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability,...

One Black Life Mattered, This Time Remember when three Black women proclaimed that Black Lives Matter? It was in 2013 after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the fatal shooting of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin in Florida. It seemed so essential and overdue for Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi to found a movement to defiantly claim what America had too often denied. Yet it was controversial. The willfully blind countered with "All Lives Matter," as though say...

Ned Pettus: Under any circumstance, that is a horrendous tragedy. But the video shows that there is more to this. It requires us to pause, take a close look at the sequence of events and, though its not easy, wait for the facts, as determined by an independent investigation. John Yang: A day later, a white police officer shot and killed a 40-year-old Black man in Elizabeth city, North Carolina. Police have yet to release bodycam footage. Woman: John Yang: The shootings are a reminder of the une...

Hundreds bid farewell to Daunte Wright in Minneapolis 2 minutes read Minneapolis, Minnesota, Apr 22 (EFE).- Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday at a local church to bid their last farewell to Daunte Wright, who died a week-and-a-half ago when a police officer shot him once in the chest at a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. “Daunte Wright’s life mattered,” attorney Ben Crump said, asking those on hand to repeat the phrase a number of times during the service...