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New Tracker Keeps Companies Accountable on Racial Equity Progress Apr 19, 2021 Events over the past few weeks, notably the court trial of Derek Chauvin for his role in the killing of George Floyd coupled with the shooting and death of Daunte Wright, offer a reminder that the U.S. still has much work to do on the racial equity front. And while the U.S. business community by and large has said it is aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement, the responses of many Americans to that sentiment c...

feed to stay on top of the news. Third-degree murder applies to cases of unintentional murder caused by "an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life" and carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.  Finally, second-degree manslaughter in Minnesota, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years or a fine of up to $20,000 (or both), is defined as causing the death of another by "culpable negligence," including by shooting with the belief the vict...

“It was one of the great disappointments of the last session,” said Sen. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, who sponsored police training legislation that died when the House failed to take it up by the end of 2020, choosing to approve its own version instead.  “It seems to me that there are a few ideas in that area that we should be able to come together on, and improving (police) training is perhaps the most obvious and easiest area of compromise and collaboration,” Irwin told Bridge Michigan....

Protesters across the country took to the streets Saturday night, following a week of demonstrations over recent fatal police shootings in Minnesota, Chicago and other cities. 

To break a nation, one doesn’t need invading armies, nuclear missiles or even a cyber warfare attack that fries the electrical grid. An incessant marketing campaign will do. Rebranding the United States as “racist”—allegedly systemic, structural or some other impossible-to-pin-down modifier—advances a false narrative. The objective is to demoralize proud Americans. Historically, radicals have used self-justifying promotional techniques to seize power. Nazis rode their “stab-in-the-b...

Tweet There was a fatal police shooting at a park in Portland Friday morning. It started when a call was placed to police reporting a white man pointing a gun in the park. Police arrived and, according to a witness who filmed the encounter, the man became irate. He was shirtless and didn’t appear to be armed at that point, though the witness said he’d seen him with a gun earlier. Police attempted to issue orders and locate then gun but when the man bent down to pick something off the grou...

Fatal stop brings fresh scrutiny to Brooklyn Center police By Kim Hyatt, Jeff Hargarten, Kim Hyatt and Jeff Hargarten and Star Tribune staff writers April 17, 2021 — 4:59pm Text size Copy shortlink: The 47 officers who make up the Brooklyn Center Police Department have little in common with the nearly 31,000 people they serve. Most officers are white, while most residents are people of color. Nearly all office...

Moment NYC motorist throws an unknown chemical on officer before firing a Molotov cocktail at a patrol car during a 8am traffic stop amid anti-cop protests across the US Police instigated a traffic stop just before 8am in East Flatbush, Brooklyn after the driver of a Lincoln Town Car allegedly ran a red light After asking the driver for his license and registration, the motorist exited his vehicle and doused the NYPD officer with an unknown liquid chemical He then escaped the scene and tossed a...

Updated: 6:47 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 People in Boston are demonstrating in protest of the death of Daunte Wright, the victim of a police shooting in Minnesota.Hundreds of people gathered in Nubian Square in the citys Roxbury neighborhood on Saturday for a rally and march.Meanwhile, protests of Wrights death continued in the Minneapolis area for the sixth straight night.Another curfew went into the effect in Brooklyn Center, where the shooting took place, at 11 p.m. local time Friday nigh...

Hundreds of people took to the streets of the city of Oakland in California to protest against fatal police shootings in Minneapolis and Chicago."The City of Oakland experienced disruptive protests in the Downtown area," the citys ...