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Oxford-AstraZeneca shots and deliberations in Chauvin trial: In The News for April 20 Pharmacist Barbara Violo arranges empty vials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines provided to customers at the Junction Chemist, an independent pharmacy in Toronto, Monday, April 19, 2021. Younger Canadians in several provinces are now able to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette April 20, 2021 - 1:04 AM In The News is a roundup ...

Why the NBA is already prepared to postpone and cancel games NBA players kneel during the play of the national anthem (Image source: YouTube/The Bleacher Report) The National Basketball Association is anticipating that upcoming games may be delayed depending on the verdict rendered by the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial, Yahoo! Sports reports. Teams were told that a game or two may be postponed after the verdict is read by the jury. Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave their closing ...

The World Calls For Justice: The Jury Decides in The Case of The George Floyd Killer Published April 20th, 2021 - 06:39 GMT Demonstrators protest near the Hennepin County Courthouse on April 19, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP Highlights Minneapolis on edge while George Floyd case climaxes during the trial of the police officer. The world waits as a Minneapolis jury is deciding the fate of the former police officer accused in...

Jurors begin deliberating the fate of Derek Chauvin Attorneys returned to familiar subjects of debate on the final day of arguments in the trial of the ex-officer charged with murder and manslaughter in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Written By: Matthew Guerry | × In this still image from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to closing arguments Monday, April 19, 2021, during his trial for second-degree murder, thir...

19 Apr 2021 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Monday addressed her call to outlaw the policing of neighborhoods and incarceration, claiming without evidence that law enforcement organizations are built on “structural racism.” A partial transcript is as follows: JOE MADISON: [Policing] is becoming a cash cow for a lot of communities. What I mean by this, as we saw in Ferguson, you over-police a community, the poor end up paying fines, they end up going to court. There are a lot of folks making a...

Reform is Not Enough: After Continued Police Killings, Protesters Ask for Systemic Change Photo Credit: Quinn Clark Protesters join the Party for Socialism and Liberation in a moment of silence for Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo and all victims of police brutality. As the nation watches the Derek Chauvin murder trial, people continue to die at the hands of police. Among them are 20-year-old Daunte Wright from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and 13-year-old Adam Toledo from Chicago, Illinois.  Locally...

Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images The judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin criticized comments made by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., over the weekend, calling them "disrespectful to the rule of law," but rejected a motion from the defense to use her rhetoric as grounds for a mistrial. "Im aware that Congresswoman Waters was talking specifically about this trial, and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction, and talk about bein...

“When I was young I wanted to be a policeman,” reads the inscription under a bust of a man’s head and neck. Look closer at the face of the bust, and the images of police officers in full riot gear, weapons raised, come into view. Now, take in the third bust in this row of five. Like a bullet wound between the eyes or a sight seared into one’s memory, the image of Rodney King’s swollen, beaten face is photo-transferred onto the figure’s forehead. The entire head and neck rotate endle...

The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury in a city on edge against another round of unrest like the one that erupted last year over the harrowing video of Mr Chauvin with his knee on the Black mans neck. The jury of six white people and six people who are Black or multiracial began deliberating after nearly a full day of closing arguments in which prosecutors argued that Mr Chauvin squeezed the life out of Mr Floyd last May in a way that...

State Of The City Updated Published Join us live for our annual State of the City address. Together, we can recover, rebuild, and reimagine a more just, resilient, sustainable, equitable and fair city for every Angeleno.#SOTC2021https://t.co/D5NIDC4clv — City of Los Angeles (@LACity) April 20, 2021 Mayor Eric Garcetti is set to give his state of the city address at 5:15 p.m. today. He plans to talk about the citys budget and will most likely touch on the pandemics toll on the region and tou...