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© Getty Images The aunt of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer at a traffic stop in Minnesota earlier this month, called the man a “shining light” and asked, “Why do we have to keep burying our babies?” in an emotional new interview. “Daunte was a shining light. He was a shining light. He was loved. He was a man in the making. He was somebody. He was human. He died ... we can’t understand why. Why? Why did he have to die the way that...

San Antonio activists take on phony cop ‘unions’ By Shelley Ettinger posted on April 21, 2021 San Antonio — Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end to police killings of Black and Brown people, nationally and locally. The first demonstration, sponsored by the San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability, Fix SAPD and others, was focused on Proposition B. This referendum on the May 1 ballot would cancel collective bargaining rights for so-...

Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said it's an extra step to help deputies differentiate between tasers and handguns.

BBC News By Vincent Dowd image captionRap star Joey Bada$$ plays the central character Carter Travon Free was co-writing a romcom screenplay last year when George Floyd died. Free decided the romcom would have to wait - as an African American, he wanted to create a serious screenplay addressing the police killings of black people in the US. But the resulting short film, Two Distant Strangers, which is nominated at this weeks Oscars, still borrows a lot from one of the big comedy hits of the 19...

Listen to the story. Alfreda Daniels Juasemai is a community organizer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and the co-founder of the Black Immigrant Collective.  Credit: Share The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial over George Floyds death was celebrated by many across the United States and around the world.  On Tuesday, a Minneapolis jury found white ex-police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts of murder and manslaughter in the May killing of Floyd, a Black man, whose...

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US – Community leaders in Minneapolis called for more accountability for police brutality and more direct action from demonstrators on Wednesday after the United States Justice Department (DOJ) announced an investigation into the city’s police department a day after a former officer was found guilty of killing George Floyd, a Black man. On boarded-up businesses across the city, images posted of Floyd, as well as Daunte Wright and Philando Castile, Black men also kill...

ALBANY — State legislators and officials solemnly celebrated justice, they said Tuesday, following the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd last May. After deliberating for less than 12 hours, the jury returned its verdict Tuesday on Chauvin, a white former officer who was charged with manslaughter, second-degree murder and third-degree murder in the death of Floyd, a Black man. Chauvin, 45, could be sentenced...

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Pa. Legislative Black Caucus says policing legislation remains one of their priorities this session Updated 12:04 AM; Members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus (PLBC) called Wednesday for continued action on policing and ending systemic racism. It came one day after a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges filed against him for the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. “The more than nine and a half minutes Chauvin spent disregarding a...

Police officers in Ohio, California and North Carolina have killed Black people since Derek Chauvin was found guilty.