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Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo were reportedly dismantled by police officers in Bakersfield, California on Saturday (April 17) during a vigil for the police-involved shooting victims. Residents in the area gathered at a memorial for a vigil for Wright and Toledo when officers starting taking down cardboard signs. TMZ, a video posted to TikTok shows Bakersfield police officers taking down the signs, removing cardboard pieces, before walking back to their patrol car.  The police department tol...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is pushing back against Republicans and conservative media who have called her out over remarks she made on Saturday during a Black Lives Matter protest in Minnesota. Rep. Waters (D-Calif.) told Kim Potter fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright — because she “could not rest” after seeing yet another unarmed Black man killed by law enforcement and, in the case of Wright, just a few miles away from the Derek Chauvin trial in the murder of George Floyd. Rep. ...

A I was driving around the other day when I realized that the license tabs on my car had expired. I didn’t panic, because I didn’t have to. If the cops pulled me over, I could feel assured as a white male: My life would not be in danger. It was expired registration tags that led the police to pull over Daunte Wright, the young Black man killed by Officer Kim Potter in suburban Minneapolis this month. (It has been described by local authorities as a deadly accident, although his family ...

Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The NBA has told the team’s to be ready for the verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd this week, including the possibilities of game postponements, sources told ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski.  Closing arguments in the trial are expected to begin on Monday.  Chauvin faces second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of Floyd after h...

Joe Collins Fires Back at Maxine Waters for Seemingly Inciting Violence Against Police Officers News provided by Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- California Congressional candidate Joe Collins spoke out again this week after his opponent, Rep. Maxine Waters, seemingly incited violence against police officers during an anti-cop protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Joe Collins speaks out after Maxine Waters tells protesters to get more confronta...

April 19, 2021 | 1:43 PM MINNEAPOLIS — Around midday last Monday, Samir Patel received a phone call from his friend, a dentist: Gunshots had rung out, his friend told him, and the contractors who were rebuilding the office he lost in last year’s unrest had fled. He was boarding up, and he told Patel he should move quickly to protect his own business, a dry-cleaning shop. And so Patel got in his car and drove to his shop, cleared out all of his customers’ clothes and brought them home. May...

Community members hold vigil for victims of police violence "We have all lost lives too soon in an entirely preventable way." Posted: Apr 18, 2021 3:48 PM Updated: Apr 18, 2021 6:32 PM Posted By: KEZI 9 News EUGENE, Ore. -- Around 40 community members came together Sunday afternoon at Maurie Jacobs Park in Eugene to honor the lives of the many minority men and women killed by police violence. Organizers and community members painted on posters and cardboard to make signs protesting against po...

Closing arguments are underway on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin amid heightened safety concerns after a National Guard and MinneapolisPolice Department neighborhood security team was fired upon over the weekend in a drive-by shooting. Attorneys from both sides are seeking to distill three weeks of testimony in order to convince jurors to acquit or convict Chauvin on second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Jurors in Hennepi...

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Reply A demonstrator is shot with less-than-lethal marking rounds and tear gas during a standoff with police during a protest decrying the shooting death of Daunte Wright, outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department, Wednesday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Some journalists covering protests over the police fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, in suburban Minneapolis say officers have harassed and assaulted them despite a federal order to leave them alone. U.S. District Judge...