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Published on: Monday, April 19, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Law enforcement officers pepper spray freelance photographer Tim Evans (L) as he identifies himself a working journalist outside the Brooklyn Center police station during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center. BROOKLYN CENTER: High-ranking Congress member Maxine Waters called for an overhaul of policing in the United States as she joined the seventh consecutive night of ...

April 19, 2021 Share As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joined the crowd intent on keeping the peace and preventing protests from escalating into violence. Hundreds of people have gathered outside the heavily guarded Brooklyn Center police station every night since Sunday, when former Officer Kim Potter, who is white, shot the 20-year-old Black motorist during a traffic stop. Despite the mayor’s cal...

By KATIE GALIOTO | Star Tribune | Published: April 19, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — Reese Farrell was walking near her home in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis on Wednesday night when more than a dozen armored National Guard vehicles rumbled down the block. "All this military presence — it feels strange, like Im in a movie or something," the 17-year-old said. As the end of the Derek Chauvin trial draws closer, state and local officials have ordered a show of force that some s...

The crises are (still) happening (again) A glance over the news of the last week feels like being stuck in a time loop. A Minnesota police officer killed a Black man. Protests broke out. A man took a gun into a public place and killed eight people. Newly released video footage showed that a Chicago police officer had shot and killed an unarmed child. Health officials in Colorado warned of a new potential surge in COVID-19 infections. Polls show that many Republicans are hesitant about getting v...

While I understand being frustrated with our government or even local politicians, I will never understand why some people think they have the right to vandalize property. That is exactly what took place over the weekend in Denver as KKTV is reporting that the mansion in which Governor Jared Polis and his family live was just one of many homes that were vandalized. The Denver Police Department has an open investigation attempting to find those responsible for the vandalism over the weekend. It ...

Police arrest 11 in downtown Raleigh as social justice protests take combative turn Protesters are fueled by the outrage of recent police shootings that resulted in the deaths of minorities, including 20-year-old Daunte Wright and 13-year-old Adam Toledo.

Image credit: Jim Mone Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Monday marks the beginning of the end in regards to the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes. The defense and prosecution have each rested their cases and both sides are ...

Group protests police brutality through downtown Sioux Falls A group of people met at a park in downtown Sioux Falls on Sunday to protest police brutality. Abigail Turner, a student at Roosevelt High School, said she’s seen an increase in police brutality and deaths recently and wanted her message to be heard. She started with a protest at her high school on Friday and on Sunday organized another one in downtown Sioux Falls. The protest was organized by word of mouth and on the social media a...

In Minneapolis, Residents And Law Enforcement Alike Brace For Chauvin Trial Verdict Monday, April 19, 2021 Hundreds of demonstrators attended a Sunday rally for Black and Asian solidarity at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis ahead of a possible verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin this week. Evan Frost / MPR News A strange, tense springtime has come to the Twin Cities as residents and law enforcement alike brace for a verdict in the intensely watched trial of fired police offic...

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