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Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Police reform is overwhelmingly popular, but basic reforms are undercut by police at every turn. This is because police unions and departments create policy loopholes that essentially allows them to police themselves.  This is how bad cops avoid accountability.  This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Americans overwhelmingly believe that policing in this country needs to be substantial...

Singer says shootings have become normal in US and ‘guns are too easy to own’

4 Sacramento officers hospitalized after they were sprayed at protest Published  article SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Four Sacramento police officers were hospitalized with injuries after they were sprayed with a liquid irritant during protests Saturday night, police told KCRA TV. The demonstrators had gathered at the state Capitol downtown to protest the police shooting deaths of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and Adam Toledo in Chicago. Protesters met at the Capitol Rose Garden after...

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Saturday for a seventh night of protests over the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright, as fallout continued from a...

April 17, 2021 Share Police in Portland, Oregon, declared a riot Friday night after authorities said protesters smashed windows and burglarized businesses during demonstrations that started earlier in the day after police fatally shot a man while responding to reports of a person with a gun. The vandalism downtown came after the Friday morning police shooting but also was part of vigils and demonstrations already planned for the night in the name of people killed in other police shootin...

Officer charged in Daunte Wright killing. "Fox & Friends" co-host Will Cain and Fox News contributor Mo Elleithee clashed on how the mainstream media is covering the police-involved Minnesota shooting of Daunte Wright and law enforcement in general on Howard Kurtzs "Media Buzz" on Sunday. Elliethee suggested that the mainstream thinking is that we shouldnt defund the police, but focus on reforms. He added that, by and large, the narrative is that we "honor" and respect our police, not v...

Tampa activists rally for justice in Daunte Wright case Protesters demand justice over Minnesota officer-involved shootings TAMPA, Fla. - People took to the streets in Tampa Saturday to call for justice for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed last Sunday by a Minnesota police officer. Chants from people with signs in hand could be heard in Downtown Tampa. "Its important to me to show my children that we dont have to accept this behavior from our public servants. From our police f...

(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) CNN evening show host (and New York gubernatorial sibling) Chris Cuomo launched into a bit of a diatribe on Friday night wherein he appeared to encapsulate all of the woes of the United States into an abbreviated list, complaining that we are unable to “come together as we the people” to make the world a better place. While a bit frenetic and scattershot in listing off our various societal ills, I’ll give him credit for at least trying to strike ...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon newspaper included the race of a white man fatally shot by police in its news coverage, then clarified that describing his race was important “in light of social unrest prompted by police shootings of Black people.” “Recent shootings include Daunte Wright, who was killed by police in a Minneapolis suburb earlier this week, and two killings in Clark County in recent months,” the newspaper explained, nodding to th...

April 18, 2021 The NBA has reportedly told all its teams to prepare for the potential impact of a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The league has raised the possibility of game postponements in the aftermath of a verdict on the case, with the prospect of the postponement of a night or two of games on the league’s schedule being mentioned. Chauvin’s trial will have its final arguments on Monday as he faces charges ...