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George Floyd trial: In Minneapolis, a fortified city awaits Derek Chauvin verdict Just outside the entrance to Smile Orthodontics, in a Minneapolis neighbourhood of craft breweries and trendy shops, two soldiers in jungle camouflage and body armour were on watch Monday, assault rifles slung over their backs. Snow flurries blew around them. A few steps away at the Iron Door Pub, three more National Guard soldiers and a Minneapolis police officer stood out front, watching the street. A handful of...

20 Apr 2021 CNN host Don Lemon on Monday evening leaped to the defense of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), arguing that “people with half a brain” understand she did not call for violence if former police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in George Floyd’s death. Waters is a “sharp-tongued, rabble-rousing lawmaker” who makes many people feel “uncomfortable,” Lemon told fellow CNN host Wolf Blitzer when asked about the lawmaker’s call to protesters to “get more confrontational.” ....

Fox Nations Get Tammy Bruce host gives her take on the Democrats message to protesters in Minnesota. The Justice Department has reportedly dispatched officials from its Community Relations Service to act as peacemakers and facilitate listening sessions amid fallout from the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. The verdict was expected to be read on Tuesday afternoon. An unnamed senior Justice Department official told the Associated Press that officials from the Community Relations Service had b...

The verdict is to be read later on Tuesday afternoon local time. Mr Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a white officer, pinned his knee on the 46-year-old black man’s neck for about nine-and-a-half minutes in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious re-examination of racism and policing in the US. The jury deliberated over parts of two days in a city on edge against another outbreak of unrest. President Joe Biden offered his thoughts (Evan Vucci/AP) The jury, made up o...

Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in George Floyd’s murder Derek Chauvin convicted of 2 murder charges, 1 manslaughter charge Updated:  Tags:  In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvins trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool) MINNEAPOL...

Dear Members of the UMass Dartmouth Community, I write today, as our nation awaits the outcome of Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd, to acknowledge the magnitude of these proceedings and the pain, sadness, anger and anxiety that many in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) community are experiencing.  The university decries the all-too-common violence and killings that members of our communities of color are experiencing, including most recently Daunte Wright, A...

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Dont show me this message again✕ Seven counties surrounding the city of Minneapolis entered a state of emergency on Monday, as closing arguments came in the trial of Derek Chauvin. Mr Chuavin is on trial for the killing of George Floyd in police custody on 25 May 2020, and the fate of the former officer – and of US policing – is currently being decided by a jury. On Monday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz said the state of emergency followed “looting” and “damage” caused by demonstra...

Derek Chauvin jury deliberation day 2: Ex-cop’s fate weighed in George Floyd death Updated 6:52 AM; Today 6:52 AM Visitors browse a memorial to George Floyd as a new addition commemorating Daunte Wright is displayed outside Cup Foods, Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)AP Facebook Share 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 Tue...

© Getty Images As closing arguments were underway in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday, students across Minnesota participated in a statewide walkout to protest racial injustice. According to The New York Times, shortly before 2 p.m. on Monday, students held a moment of silence for Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police in Brooklyn Center, Minn. last week. Brooklyn Center is located approximately 10 miles from the cou...