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17 Apr 2021 Saturday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” host Jim Acosta asked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) to react to her colleague Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) social media post calling for “no more policing” and other so-called reforms on the heels of the death of Daunte Wright. Waters chalked up Tlaib’s reaction to a desire for “justice” and said she appreciated and loved Tlaib for her outspokenness on the subject. “Well, of course, we are all very, very anxious to get justice,” Waters...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters who smashed windows, burglarized businesses and set...

Times Report Crookston Times Crookston School Board member and Highway Patrolman Mike Theis has been temporarily stationed in the Twin Cities, specifically at the state capital, following the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright and will most likely remain there for the upcoming verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial who is accused of killing George Floyd in May 2020. District 1 Senator Mark Johnson (R-East Grand Forks) sent the Times a couple photos of Theis and said he was fortunate that Theis is...

Print Chants of “Black Lives Matter” and other calls for social justice rang through the streets of downtown San Diego and Little Italy on Saturday afternoon as hundreds of marchers took the street. The march was among many that have happened nationwide this month in the wake of recent police shootings of Black people, including Daunte Wright, killed last week during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. In nearby Minneapolis, former police Officer Derek Chauvin is standing trial on a mu...

Several shots were fired at the guard members on patrol in North Minneapolis.

Mourners have built a makeshift memorial for Daunte Wright on the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minn., the quiet inner-ring suburb where police shot and killed Wright on April 11. Image: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images Never has so much attention focused on these quiet, leafy eight square miles along the Mississippi River. Brooklyn Center, Minn., a small inner-ring suburb of modest postwar houses and apartment buildings, is the latest community to feel the heat of the national spotlight in the d...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday during “Cuomo Primetime” said that police and gun reform won’t happen until  “White people’s kids start getting killed.” “Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons. Oh, I know when they’ll change,” said the anchor. “[When] your kids start getting killed. White people’s kids start getting killed.” Cuomo’s comments completely ignore the facts. As the Washington Post Police Shooting Database indicates...

Police Officers Hit With Liquid ‘Chemical,’ Molotov Cocktails During Traffic Stop in Brooklyn New York police officers were hit with liquid chemicals and Molotov cocktails during a traffic stop in Brooklyn on Saturday. When NYPD officers stopped a car on Saturday morning for running a red light, the driver tossed “a chemical” at an officer before “speeding off,” the NYPD wrote on Twitter. Later, the car was stopped by officers, and the driver “threw a lit Molotov cocktail at cops�...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Introducing Resolution to Expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress On 4/18/21 at 4:38 PM EDT Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she will soon introduce a resolution to expel Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress. On Sunday afternoon, Greene tweeted, "Very soon Ill be introducing a resolution to expel @RepMaxineWaters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence on innocent American people." "Rep Waters is a danger to...

By Jordan Williams - 04/17/21 10:03 PM EDT   Tensions have increased in the U.S. over the past week amid new reports of fatal police shootings and in anticipation of the verdict in former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvins murder trial. Ongoing protests broke out across the country this week over police shootings of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, and Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old boy.  In addition, cities are preparing for unrest as the nation waits for the verdict of Chauvi...