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Print this article This morning, I took the above picture of Margaret Sanger Square outside Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. Over the weekend, Alexis McGill Johnson, wrote an op-ed “We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.”  (As Alexandra DeSanctis writes about here.) But she missed the full need to reckon with Sanger. Yes, racist eugenics. She wrote about “the many types of dehumanization we are seeing right now.” She named Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright, Breanna Taylor,...

George Floyd: Jury in Derek Chauvin trial wraps up day one of deliberations 19 Apr, 2021 11:58 PM 6 minutes to read Demonstrators gather during a rally outside the Hennepin County Government Centre before the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. Photo / AP Demonstrators gather during a rally outside the Hennepin County Government Centre before the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. Photo / AP AP The jury has wrapped up day one of deliberations in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is a...

Josh Christenson • April 19, 2021 7:10 pm SHARE Hennepin County judge Peter Cahill reproached Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) on Monday for interfering in the trial of Derek Chauvin and encouraging civil unrest in Minneapolis, saying the congresswomans rhetoric violated her oath of office and disrespected the rule of law. "I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function," s...

Share The country and observers from around the world are on edge as closing arguments wrap up in the case of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, a Black man, in May last year.  The 12 jurors deliberating the case against Chauvin will have three counts to consider. Hes been charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Meanwhile, some 10 miles north of Minneapolis, protesters gathered again on Su...

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Print As the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday, a parallel case of sorts was resubmitted to an American public that already has been in contentious deliberations over the 30 years since Los Angeles police officers brutally beat Rodney King. The question in Chauvin’s case is whether the officer’s actions on May 25, 2020, including his kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, were within the ...

Portland on fire again over police killings By Lyn Neeley posted on April 19, 2021 Portland Protests erupted in Portland April 12 following the police killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. They escalated four days later after police killed a homeless white man with a history of struggling with mental health issues. Protesters set fire to the North Portland Police Association building in response to the police killing of Daunte Wright. Credit: Suzette Smith, Portland Mercury Over 100 proteste...

Arkansas Republican joins Special Report with warning about China potentially invading democratic island Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., scolded Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Monday over what he called "appalling" comments and urged President Biden to prepare for national unrest as the jury deliberates the fate of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. "I dont want to prejudge the case now that it is with the jury," Cotton told "Special Report" host Bret Baier, "but I will say that ...

Derek Chauvin’s lawyer, filed a motion for a mistrial citing comments made by Congresswoman  Maxine Waters. “I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned,” said Judge Peter Cahill. He continued to express disdain for all politicians speaking of and sharing their opinions on the trial. “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to th...

SHARE The murder case against former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury on Monday in a city facing another period of unrest. The jury of six white and six black or multiracial members was sent to begin deliberating after nearly a full day of closing arguments in which prosecutors said Mr Chauvin squeezed the life out Floyd last May in a way that even a child knew was wrong. The defence contended that the former white officer acted reasonably and that Floy...