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The Rev. Al Sharpton cries while speaking about George Floyd during a news conference following todays verdict on April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges he faced in Floyds death. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images Surrounded by family, friends and colleagues like the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and Pastor Jamal Bryant, longtime civil rights leader, the Rev. Al Sharpton, praised God and revealed that he broke down in...

It’s too broad: Sen. Josh Hawley was lone vote against bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans "My view is it’s dangerous to simply give the federal government open-ended authority to define a whole new class of federal hate crime incidents," he said Credit: AP FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2020 file photo, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Capit...

Wright Family (MINNEAPOLIS) -- Family and friends of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a Minnesota police officer on April 11, will gather on Thursday for his funeral. Wright, who leaves behind a 2-year-old son, was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer during an afternoon traffic stop. The officer claimed she mistook her gun for a Taser. The officer resigned from the department a...

WATCH LIVE: Daunte Wright to be eulogized at Minneapolis funeral April 22, 2021 11:51 AM Associated Press Updated: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of Daunte Wright is preparing for his funeral Thursday. It comes 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. Wright died April 11 after a white Brooklyn Center police officer shot the 20-year-...

Armed Men Provide Security At Daunte Wright Funeral MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- More than a dozen men from a local security group, many with rifles, sidearms and wearing body armor, are watching over the funeral for Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man killed last week in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. The mens patches identify them as members of the Minneapolis Freedom Fighters, a group of Black men formed last year to provide security in Minneapolis largely Black north side neighborho...

Grim list of deaths at police hands grows even after Derek Chauvin verdict Updated 7:12 AM; Today 7:12 AM Police investigate a shooting in Wednesday which a man was killed by a deputy in Elizabeth, North Carolina. (Associated Press) Facebook Share Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation. The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was...

NBA’s LeBron James Deletes Message Telling Police Officer ‘You’re Next’ NBA star LeBron James on Wednesday posted a photograph of the police officer who shot a girl in Ohio this week, telling the officer, “You’re next.” James later deleted his missive, which some took as a call to target Reardon. “ANGER does [sic] any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for...

April 22, 2021 Share Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation. The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who was swinging a knife during a fight with another person in Columbus, is in some ways more representative of how Black and other people of color are killed during police encounters than the death of George Floyd, pinned to the...

On Tuesday, many in this country breathed the sigh of relief that George Floyd never could. A diverse jury, persuaded by a diverse prosecution team, returned guilty verdicts on all three counts against Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd. It only took them 11 hours to convict the former Minneapolis police officer, and there’s no denying the catharsis that many communities are feeling in the aftermath; Chauvin became the first white officer in Minnesota history convicted in the killing...

The Story Behind TIMEs George Floyd Justice—Not Yet For All Cover Time 2 days ago © Painting by Ange Hillz for TIME As a jury’s guilty verdicts were handed down on Tuesday to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, on trial for the murder of George Floyd, people across America found a moment to exhale. Houston-based artist Ange Hillz, meanwhile, went to work: in 24 hours, he created this week’s TIME cover portrait of Floyd, to accompany a story from TIME’s Janell Ross. “M...