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April 20, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now in control of verdicts awaited by a skittish city. The jury of six white people and six people who are Black or multiracial was set for its first full of deliberations. The jury, anonymous by order of the judge and sequestered now until they reach a verdict, spe...

a series on all the work that remains after Donald Trump’s presidency. If reproductive rights advocates were disappointed by early inaction by the Biden administration so far, this week gave plenty of reason to be optimistic. First, on Tuesday, the White House announced it would lift restrictions on remote, telemedicine appointments for people seeking medication abortion care throughout the pandemic—which is an important step, although there’s no purpose for these restrictions even after...

Updated: Apr 20 2021, 4:36 ET REP Maxine Waters "wont apologize" after the judge presiding over the Derek Chauvin trial blasted her for telling protesters to "get more confrontational" if the ex-cop is acquitted of killing George Floyd. The California Democratic congresswoman told rioters to "stay on the streets" and was slammed by Judge Peter Cahill for what he described as an "abhorrent" intervention. 6 6 Judge Peter Cahill said the reps comments could see a guilty verdict appealed and overtu...

Murder case against ex-cop in George Floyds death goes to the jury by The Associated Press Last Updated Apr 19, 2021 at 11:20 pm EDT In this image from video, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill reads instructions to the jury before closing arguments, Monday, April 19, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool) The murder case against...

Journalism under siege in Minnesota New York Times, told the paper that the police surrounded the car he was in on Tuesday as he tried to leave the protests. “It was definitely scary — I’ve never been in a situation like that with so many police officers hitting me, hitting my equipment,” he said, adding that police did not believe his press credentials were real. Carolyn Sung, an Asian American CNN producer, was seized by police, despite identifying herself as a journalist, and was zip...

Aftermath of fatal shooting: How can a handgun be mistaken for a Taser? Janet Loehrke, Ramon Padilla and George Petras, USA TODAY © USA TODAY Taser promo image Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated the weight of the X26P Taser. The fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer, was called an accidental discharge by the police chief, who said the officer mi...

Minneapolis is bracing for fresh unrest as the closely watched trial of the police officer accused of killing George Floyd enters its final phase. AFP Janay Clayton has no doubt there will be trouble in Minneapolis if the white ex-police officer accused of murdering George Floyd walks free — with soldiers patrolling the streets and shops boarded up in anticipation of a verdict. “We’re prepared for the worst,” Clayton, a resident of the US city, told AFP on Monday, at the start of the tr...

Biden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American Migrants The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration. Pedro Pardo/Getty Images Victoria Salazar, a Salvadoran woman who had fled her country and sought refuge in Mexico, was killed by the police in Tulum late last month when an officer knelt on her neck during an arrest. The incident, caug...

“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of yet another unarmed African-American man. The sentiment was altogether fitting and proper, especially given that his city was the epicenter of a national uprising last year after one of its police officers—Derek Chauvin, now on trial—killed a handcuffed, unarmed and unresisting black man named George Floyd by pushing a kne...

Print AP In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during motions before the court Thursday, April 15, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. Chauvin told the judge he will not testify on his own behalf. (Court TV via AP, Pool) ...