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Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) listens to testimony on robo-signing and foreclosures at a hearing of the Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Service Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 18, 2010. | (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats came to the defense of Rep. Maxine Waters, rejecting an attempt by Republicans to censure the California Democrat for telling activists to get “more confrontat...

Lawsuit: Colorado officer who arrested woman with dementia allegedly dislocated her shoulder, broke her arm By Colleen Slevin Woman with dementia files lawsuit over excessive force during arrest A police officer who arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia in Loveland, Colorado, last year has been suspended while the matter is being investigated. DENVER - A police officer who arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia, pushing her to the ground and handcuffing her, after she walked away from ...

By Victor Omondi GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed her plans to introduce a resolution to expel Democratic Maxine Waters from Congress on Sunday.  In a tweet she posted on Sunday, Greene claimed Waters was inciting violence when she crossed the state lines to join the Black Lives Matter protests against the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota, coming up with an #expelMaxineWaters hashtag. “Very soon I’ll be introducing a resolution to expel @RepMaxineWaters fro...

Black Portland Protesters Write Open Letter Urging Allies to Stop Doing Damage to Movement On 4/21/21 at 4:03 PM EDT The open letter was published on Tuesday, in We Out Here Magazine (WOHM),a Northwest hip-hop lifestyle magazine, in response to "ongoing behavior seen as detrimental to Black Liberation." The letter comes as Portland remains an active site for protests against police killings. Last summer, the city gained national attention after the murder of George Floyd, when several protests...

Why Is Kinzinger Silent On Threat To Kill Men and Women In Blue Adam Kinzinger only has time to attack fellow Republicans but folds when it comes to calling out Democrats.” — Jack Lombardi MANHATTAN, IL, UNITED STATES, April 21, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Jack Lombardi, Republican Congressional candidate Illinois’ 16th Congressional District called upon Congressman Adam Kingzinger to denounce California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and to vote to strip Waters of her Congressional ...

"Depending on the evidence, an indictment could contain additional charges," the spokesperson said.   On Monday, the Minnesota U.S. Attorneys Office charged the 29-year-old with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is not allowed to have a firearm due to a prior felony conviction, the office noted in its news release.  According to the allegations outlined in the criminal complaint, a team of Minnesota National guardsmen and Minneapolis police officers encountered mul...

AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar In light of the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict, perhaps we should take a deep breath and consider what happened in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota over the past few weeks. On April 11, Daunte Wright was tragically killed during a traffic stop when Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, inadvertently mistook her Taser for her service weapon. Immediately after she apparently mistakenly shot Wright, Potter said, “Holy s**t, I just shot him.” No...

April 21, 2021 Share Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segregation to enduring punishments for living while Black, a breath of fresh air untainted by oppression has long been hard to come by. Nonetheless, the conviction of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd nearly a year ago allowed many across this city and the nation to exhale pent-up anxiety — and to inhale a sense of hope. B...

Officer should be selfless and resign Dear Editor, Now that the trial for the murder George Floyd is behind us, I wish I could say it’s time to move forward. But we have two major training days of incidents involving two senior law enforcement officers from the same county in Minnesota in a year. There is no greater sign for the need police reform in America today and the US senate needs to act now. Brooklyn Center female police officer Kim Potter “accidentally” shot 20-ye...

We’ve got to move away from the complacent self-satisfaction that hides the reality and fuels the division that threatens all of us, not Minnesotans only, not Midwesterners only, but all Americans together.