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LIVE: Closings arguments underway in Derek Chauvin trial as US awaits verdict Pool Defense attorney Eric Nelson presents his closing arguments in the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin By: Scripps National and last updated 2021-04-19 16:10:21-04 UPDATE, 4:10 p.m. ET: A prosecutor offered a rebuttal closing statement. State attorney Jerry Blackwell reminded jurors to use common sense, bringing up the testimony of the 9-year-old witness who told officers...

npr.org NPR West Coast correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates, came to talk April 16 at Morgan State University’s latest J-Chat Zoom session. At the start of the meeting, she and Professor Randall Pinkston fondly recalled their past journalistic meetings with one another. Bates also said they may have even come in contact during their undergraduate years, because of parties and a close friend. Bates graduated from Wellesley and recalled how although, she had studied sociology and Africana Studie...

Fox & Friends First law enforcement panel with reaction to unrest happening in Twin Cities area and other parts of the U.S. Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, arrested 12 people Sunday after a third night of demonstrations in response to the death of Daunte Wright turned violent, as crowds sweeping across downtown vandalized stores, set fires and threw eggs and other projectiles at officers. At approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, a large crowd of protesters began marching throughout downtown ...

Joe Biden’s opinion on Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) telling protesters against the police to “get more confrontational.” As Psaki held a press briefing on Monday, she was asked if Biden would be “disappointed” by a not guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial. Psaki said the president wouldn’t speak to the jury’s decision until they reach a verdict, and after that, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked her about the rhetoric from Waters when she visited Minnesota to parta...

HeadlineApr 19, 2021 Image Credit: Twitter: @jaspercolt A Minneapolis jury is hearing closing arguments today in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd last May by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes. Jurors will be sequestered until they reach a unanimous verdict. This comes as demonstrations continued over the weekend in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center over the police killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. On Friday, police arrested ov...

Jury begins deliberations in George Floyd murder trial

 

Minnesota students walk out Monday to honor Daunte Wright, protest racial injustice By FOX 9 Staff (FOX 9) (FOX 9) - Students at more than 115 schools across Minnesota walked out Monday to protest racial injustice in their communities and schools. The walkouts come after the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer last week.  Students rallied in the athletic stadium at Robbinsdale Cooper High School during the walkout. (FOX 9) The statewide walkout wa...

Carjacking suspect dies after exchanging gunfire with Burnsville police Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS BCA agents began investigating the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Burnsville on Sunday, April 18. An armed suspect jumped out of a moving vehicle he had stolen and ran onto a busy Burnsville highway, where he tried to steal another vehicle before police fatally shot him Sunday afternoon. The man ran i...

USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS – Security tightened across the region and nationwide as jurors were set to begin deliberations in the murder trial of former police office Derek Chauvin. Chauvin faces multiple charges stemming from last May’s death of George Floyd. Video shown to jurors shows Chauvin, who was swiftly fired, kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Floyds death sparked nationwide protests and calls for comprehensive police reform to protect Black communities. Both sid...