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Featured Video Hide The video was posted to TikTok by @brian1504, whose account has since been deleted, following much discussion after former Officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota. Police officials, according to NPR, claimed Potter mistook her gun for a Taser. Advertisement Hide “I don’t understand how we can mistake a taser for a gun or a gun for a taser. ...

Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images Originally published on April 18, 2021 8:04 am 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 days since the death of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old Black man shot during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center police officer who...

Calls For US Police Reform At Fresh Protest Over Daunte Wright Killing 04/18/21 AT 5:20 AM High-ranking Congress member Maxine Waters called for an overhaul of policing in the United States as she joined the seventh consecutive night of protests in a Minneapolis suburb over the death of Daunte Wright, a young Black man shot dead by a white policewoman. The 20-year-old was killed during what should have been a routine traffic stop, sparking anger and fresh protests against police brutality and r...

Black people deserve the same respect from police officers as white men in suits | PennLive Editorial Updated 8:16 AM; Dr. John Sygielski, president of Harrisburg Area Community College, wrote the following on his Facebook page on Thursday: Got a call from a Black HACC student asking to drive him to work because he was afraid. Established a phone tree of drivers to assist him until he feels ‘safe’ to drive alone, again. I have never before received this request from a White student. Have y...

Officers at the Alamance County trailer park after a shootout that left two people dead April 8. Last weekend, we talked about a tale of two crises: As the coronavirus pandemic, which is still a gargantuan challenge, decreases in intensity, the gun violence epidemic one again floods into the spotlight. That was just as true last week when a mass shooting claimed six lives near Rock Hill, South Carolina, as it was this week when eight people were shot and killed at a And the gun violence hasn...

Shots fired at Guardsmen patrolling near Wright scene | 2021/04/19

Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at the hands of police in

Associated Press Michael Odiari leads a chant as he tries to de-escalate an altercation between demonstrators and police Friday in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a protest over the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Previous Next Sunday, April 18, 2021 1:00 am Group aims to keep peace at Minnesota protests Associated Press BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joi...

Black Lives Matter demonstrators march through downtown Fort Myers Black Lives Matter protestors make their way through downtown Fort Myers and last updated 2021-04-18 15:43:21-04 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Demonstrators gathered in downtown Fort Myers Saturday to protest police brutality in America. This is the first time protestors are marching after Floridas House and Senate passed a bill crack-down on protestors and rioters. The group came together after Minnesota police officer, Kim Potter, ...

Minnesota National Guard soldiers injured in Minneapolis drive-by shooting One Guardsmen was taken to the hospital for treatment. Posted: Apr 18, 2021 10:51 AM Updated: Apr 18, 2021 10:53 AM Posted By: Mike Bunge MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The Minnesota National Guard says its soldiers were shot at early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis. The Guard says it happened around 4:19 am near Penn Avenue and Broadway. A light-colored SUV reportedly fired several shots at an Operation Sa...