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The Twitter post featuring the photo that went viral — over 13,000 retweets and counting — said the church was harboring people “hurt by police violence” during an April 12 protest over the police killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop the previous day. “This was how the cops responded,” Mischa Coldwater wrote. Except the troopers weren’t guarding the church, they were guarding the police station next door — although it isn’t pictured in the ...

If you’re black and disabled, you’re even more vulnerable. Specifically, what we’re dealing with today is a skewed shoot-to-kill mindset in which police, trained to view themselves as warriors or soldiers in a war, whether against drugs, or terror, or crime, must “get” the bad guys—i.e., anyone who is a potential target—before the bad guys get them. This nationwide epidemic of court-sanctioned police violence carried out with impunity against individuals posing little or no real t...

Associated Press ATLANTA — A former Atlanta police officers attorney said Thursday that his client didnt get a chance to defend himself before he was fired for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who had been running away from two white officers after he resisted arrest and fired a stun gun at one of them. Officer Garrett Rolfe was dismissed "without a proper investigation" by the city on June 13, one day after Brooks death, Rolfes attorney, Lance LoRusso, told the citys civil servi...

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: The command center for breaking news, politics and extraordinary reports from around the world. Subscribe Family, civil rights leaders pay tribute to Daunte Wright, unarmed black man killed by police; tearful mom: “he should be burying me”. Columbus police release additional body cam video of black knife wielding teen fatally shot by police. North Carolina law enforcement facing growing pressure to release video of d...

OTHER VIEWS: Let’s make George Floyd’s tragic death a turning point Even during the trial that ended in the murder conviction of the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, police killings off people of color continued in cities around the U.S. We have to reform our police practices and root out bias. Written By: Forum Editorial Board | 12:10 pm, Apr. 23, 2021 × George Floyd (Forum News Service / courtesy photo) It’s worth remembering the Minneapolis Pol...

Font Size There is no question that if youre a radical socialist Democrat, you will be embraced without criticism by the outspoken hosts of ABCs  The View. Newest Democrat “squad” member Cori Bush appeared for the second time this year on the show, where she was treated to yet another mostly softball interview. While there, the Missouri congresswoman made some unsubstantiated, audacious claims about policing in America that went unchallenged by any of the hosts. In fact, the ...

Now a nation that was holding its breath for justice can exhale. In one of the most significant racial justice cases in U.S. history, a white Minneapolis police officer has been convicted of murdering an unarmed, handcuffed Black man. A diverse 12-member jury of Minnesotans found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter on Tuesday. And the image of Chauvin driving his knee into the neck of George Floyd for nine minu...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. AFL-CIO hails Chauvin verdict, but police unions still an issue for organized labor April 21, 2021 11:39 AM CDT By PAI Police officers guard the Portland Police Association building, which houses police labor union offices, on Sept. 4, 2020, in Portland, Ore. | Noah Berger / AP ...

The news of the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd, was a relief to learn. Understandably, I was a bit concerned and anxious over the past week or so leading to the eventual verdict of guilty on all three charges. This was probably weighing heavi

Space X launch, India Covid surge, George Floyd murder trial, The Death of Idriss Deby, Super League Issued on: THE WORLD THIS WEEK © France 24 43 min Nothing quite like a rocket launch. Dateline, Cape Canaveral, Florida just before 6am local time. Elon Musks SpaceX and its reusable rocket launcher sending a crew of four to the International Space Station. He has talked about it being a golden age for space flight. Advert...