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Oscar Grants mother sees much of her own familys tragedy in 2009 in the shooting of Daunte Wright CNN 2 hrs ago By Madeline Holcombe and Alexandra Meeks, CNN © CNN Reverend Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2009. The mother of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2009, told CNN the fallout from the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright reminds her of the pain she faced. "It was a lot of anxio...

As a young Black man, he said, he had to come to the protest, even though his mother, worried about the risk, had tried to convince him not to. He wanted “to fight for what I believe in”, he said. Hundreds of high school students staged a walkout and gathered in downtown Minneapolis to protest the deaths of Daunte Wright and George Floyd and chant “National Guard go home.” At least 600 young people in the the crowd by 2:45. Speakers and participants were 16, 17 years old. pi...

Apr 20, 2021 The Twin Cities are waiting for the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. In the meantime, Brooklyn Center has been the focus of nightly protests outside of police headquarters after the shooting of Daunte Wright last week on Sunday. The state is on edge. The nation is on edge as it awaits the jury’s decision. We hope and pray for calm. What we do not need is U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California) dropping in to Brooklyn Center as she did over the weekend to inflame the crowd. “I...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has reported a “dramatic deterioration” in access to information and an “increase in obstacles” for journalists during the Covid-19 pandemic in its 2021 World Press Freedom Index ranking. It said journalists across the world, but particularly in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, are finding it increasingly difficult to investigate and report on sensitive stories. And the press freedom campaign group questioned whether access to information blocked by auth...

MINNESOTA -- A Minnesota bill would make anyone arrested and convicted during a protest ineligible for all state government aid, including student loans, food assistance, and employment benefits.SF 2381, which was introduced on April 7, states that "a person convicted of a criminal offense" in a

CHICAGO —  Latino lawyers and community leaders are set Tuesday to ask the Department of Justice to investigate the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer. The group also will call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to accelerate court-supervised changes to policing in Chicago, end foot pursuits by officers and invest federal COVID relief money in helping young people in the neighborhood where Adam lived and died. Officer Eric Stillman was responding to a call of shot...

Nicole Neri/MPR News toggle caption Nicole Neri/MPR News Students hold signs during a walkout at Tartan High School in Oakdale, Minn., where participants spoke, sang and did trauma-healing exercises together on the football field Monday. Nicole Neri/MPR News "After Daunte Wright, I was like, Really? It hasnt even been a year since George Floyd died, " Williams said. "I was just like, we need to do something. So I started brainstorming, getting ideas from ...

The former police officer faces a maximum of 75 years in prison.

* Joshua Rashaad McFadden, a freelance photographer working for the New York Times, was beaten by Minnesota police officers as he was covering the protests outside the police station over the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was killed by a white veteran police officer during a traffic stop.  Per The Times, McFadden, 30, said in an interview on Sunday that the police surrounded the car he was in on Tuesday as he tried to leave the scene. They beat on the windows with batons...