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Columbus Circle cleanup begins: Workers scrub anti-police graffiti and fake blood off NYC landmark after it was vandalized by BLM protesters on another night of unrest Workers were seen trying to power-wash graffiti off the USS Maine National Monument in Manhattans Columbus Circle intersection on Friday morning The graffiti included anti-police messages and was smeared on the memorial to look like blood  Black Lives Matter protesters descended on the monument on Thursday night    Several pr...

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: In Minnesota, mourners gathered Thursday for the funeral of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black father who was shot dead by a white police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Daunte’s mother, Katie Wright, fought back tears as she remembered her son. KATIE WRIGHT: I never imagined that I’d be standing here. The roles should completely be reversed: My son should be burying me. My...

George Floyd during a police encounter in Minneapolis, an officer by the name of Daunte Wright in nearby Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Immediately after the shooting, Potter and the suburbs police chief resigned. Since then, Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and remained at her home in Champlin, Minnesota. In the aftermath of Potter killing Wright, security measures have been upgraded at her home. Cops remained posted outside of her home. Fencing has been placed around the...

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash I watched the parents of Daunte Wright speak about the moments that led to his killing by a police officer. His mom was on the phone with him when he was pulled over. I watched her relay a heartbroken response, realizing that her son would be dead in 10 minutes, because former officer Kim Potter shot him in the chest, allegedly mistaking her gun for a taser. It reminded me that I could have been Daunte Wright. In 1980, I was pulled over in Worthington, Ohio, aft...

Mother today, saying she never imagined she would be standing there, she just said it there, that "my son should be burying me." whats next in this case? >> reporter: well, david, that former brooklyn center police officer who shot and killed daunte wright on this street behind me, where you see that growing memorial, she was charged with second degree manslaughter and is scheduled to appear in court again next month. dauntes family, though, says at this point, there is no justice, only accounta...

Guilty on all three charges. >> reporter: christensen says she had yet to visit the memorial at george floyd square. >> at some point, i would like to go down there. that would be my closure and tell mr. george floyd that >> reporter: last week, just 15 miles away from that square where george floyd was killed, 20-year-old daunte wright died at the hands of a police officer. the family of george floyd paying their respects today at wrights funeral. the young father eulogized by the reverend al s...

Satisfaction over verdict doesn’t last long as list of deaths at the hands of police keeps growing Updated Apr 21, 2021; Posted Apr 21, 2021 Students leave the Ohio Union on the campus of Ohio State University to protest the shooting of MaKhia Bryant a day earlier by Columbus Police, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)AP Facebook Share Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in...

If you’re hoping that Tuesday’s Derek Chauvin verdict will spark true reform in American policing, you may have been looking at the wrong trial. Not because the guilty verdict of the fired Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd last May doesn’t signal a sea change in the nation’s justice system. It does. And not because it doesn’t finally confirm to anyone open to listening that Black lives, once and for all, do matter, and taking them away has a cost. It sends that messag...

Chauvin trial hardens political fault lines POLITICO 1 hr ago By David Siders and Sabrina Rodriguez © Steven Senne/AP Photo A demonstrator display a banner during a protest April 21 in Boston, a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted in the 2020 death of George Floyd. The guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial marked a departure for a nation long accustomed to police violence going unpunished. Yet if the outcome of the trial was groundbreaking, the political fallout appe...