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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) As we previously reported, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) stepped in it big time with inflammatory comments she made over the weekend in Minnesota where she urged “protesters” to “stay on the street” and “get more confrontational” in the event former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in the death of George Floyd. “We’ve got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontation...

Scientific American Why Are Police Using a World War I–Era Chemical Weapon on Civilians? Most people think tear gas is relatively harmless, but we know very little about its long-term effects on human health and the environment Print Police fire tear gas at people protesting the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, MN, on April 11, 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel Advertisement The pattern is depressingly familiar by now: a Black man dies at the hands of police; the entire nation bea...

BREAKING: Derek Chauvin Verdict Reached, DC Requests More National Guard As City Braces For Protests Minneapolis, MN – The  jury deliberating in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has reached a verdict and cities nationwide are scrambling to prepare for the aftermath. The Hennepin County District Court announced that the verdict would be read between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Central time, CNN reported. The jury deliberated for four hours on Monday evening after t...

Detroit community leaders and Michigan criminal justice experts hailed the Tuesday guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer DerekA Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, but some said it didnt lessen the urgent need for police reform in the United States. A jury deliberated less than day and found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. It followed the playing in court of a 9-minute video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck...

Alan Dershowitz Says Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate the Jury in Chauvin Trial On 4/20/21 at 2:30 PM EDT Lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Representative Maxine Waters used Ku Klux Klan tactics to "intimidate the jury" in the Derek Chauvin trial. "First of all, the judge should have granted the motion for a mistrial based on the efforts of Congresswoman Waters to influence the jury," Dershowitz said during an interview with Newsmax. "Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury: I...

Republicans are seizing on Rep. Maxine Waters’ remarks about the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday vowing to introduce a censure resolution for “dangerous comments” that he claimed “incited violence”—despite the fact that the GOP leader both stood by Donald Trump after the former president was charged with inciting the Capitol insurrection and helped push the Big Lie that fueled the deadly attack. McCarthy is leading the censure c...

Judge Peter Cahill called Rep. Waters out by name following closing arguments.

White ex-policeman Chauvin convicted of George Floyds murder Issued on: 20/04/2021 - 23:26 Derek Chauvin (R) tells the judge he does not plan to testify at his trial in this screenshot a Court TV video feed Alex LEDERMAN Court TV/AFP/File 3 min Minneapolis (AFP) Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter Tuesday in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, l...

Reaction to verdict in death of George Floyd The Rev. Al Sharpton, who eulogized Floyd in Minneapolis, said he did not find pleasure in the moment. “We don’t celebrate a man going to jail,” he said. “We rather George be alive.” “Amen! Amen!” shouted a person in the back. Advertisement President Biden, alongside Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House, called the verdict “a giant step forward in the march towards justice in America.” He said the incident “was a murd...

Tue, Apr 20th 2021 11:53am — Tim Cushing With this hovering in the air, another senseless killing by an officer set everything off. Again. 26-year-veteran officer Kim Potter (who served a year as the head of the police union) turned a "routine traffic stop" into a homicide when Daunte Wright broke free from another officer and jumped back into his car. Potter yelled "Taser! Taser! Taser!" while pointing her gun at Wright. She shot him once, which was enough to kill him. Potters service weapo...