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The Derek Chauvin trial continues today in Minneapolis. Written By: Forum News Service | 4:50 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 × 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, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Pool via REUTERS) Watch a livestream of the trial and find live updates below. Editors note: This vid...

The prosecution and defense made their closing arguments during Derek Chauvin's trial for the death of George Floyd.

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department enlisted federal drug agents to infiltrate crowds of protesters during racial justice demonstrations in the city last spring, a move critics say may have circumvented a decades-old ban aimed at deterring police from spying on activists. The undercover operation was made public last week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a D.C.-based think tank that obtained emails between police and federal officials through a lawsuit...

Reliving the awful details of George Floyd’s slow suffocation is brutal and emotionally draining. As always in matters touching on race, the thrum of ethnic hostilities is the background noise. Some have been eager, since the trial began, to cite George Floyd’s drug use or heart trouble as the true cause of death (arguments the prosecution has effectively debunked). Others have argued that if Floyd had simply agreed to enter the squad car, he would be alive today — as if that exo...

Armed Racism Keeps No One Safe Details now!!” The officer — the mad man with a badge — probably shouts those words 50 times at the driver, Second Lt. Caron Nazario, at a gas station in Windsor, Va., all the while holding a gun a foot from his face. Nazario, who is black and Latino, had just been pulled over for not having a rear license plate (he did have one but, you know, we all make mistakes) and . . . fasten your seatbelts! . . . driving with tinted windows...

WINTER HAVEN – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Monday a sweeping bill that he says will increase punishment for people who violently riot, loot and destroy property, and punish cities that don’t protect lives and property and attempt to redirect funding for law enforcement. But detractors say the law violates residents’ first-amendment rights to free speech and targets Black communities, which protested last summer following the death of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, at ...

Jury to resume deliberations in Derek Chauvin’s trial in death of George Floyd The jury is set to resume deliberations Tuesday in Derek Chauvin’s trial on charges of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. The jury of five men and seven women began deliberating Monday afternoon at 5 p.m. ET and continued until 9 p.m. ET. Six of the jurors are White, four are Black and two are multiracial, according to information released by the court. Two other jurors who were initially selec...

Minneapolis courthouse draws crowd as jury starts deliberating in Derek Chauvin trial Molly Hennessy-Fiske © Provided by The LA Times Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, left, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Ilhan Omar attend a prayer Monday led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump outside court during closing arguments in Derek Chauvins trial in Minneapolis. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Police patrolled the building’s perimeter as protesters’ ranks swelled during th...

Curfew orders could be issued if unrest follows Chauvin trial verdict Minnesota and the nation anxiously away the jury verdict. Author: Credit: Office of the Governor After several days with a 10 p.m. curfew in Minneapolis following the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer, Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are prepared to issue more curfew orders if civil unrest reaches a volatile level in response to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict.  Closing a...

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California joined demonstrators in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, over the weekend to lend support to the protest over yet another police shooting that killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. After addressing the crowd via loudspeaker Saturday evening, Waters spoke for several minutes with reporters on the scene, where she was asked what the response should be if the jury in the Derek Chauvin murder trial returned a not guilty verdict for the death ...