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This post isn’t so much about George Floyd in particular, but the next George Floyd, and the one after that.  And the person before George Floyd, and the person before that. Here are a couple of good reads related to police actions and hopes for police accountability.  Once encouraging, one descriptive of the world that black people live in – all day, every day. Maryland enacted historic police accountability measures Saturday, becoming the first state to repeal its powerful Law Enforceme...

The Minnesota Guard says the men were hurt when several shots came from a light-colored SUV around 4:19 a.m. Sunday.

Shots Fired at National Guard Troops in Minneapolis; 2 Injured Some members of the MinnesotaNational Guard came under gunfire in Minneapolis on April 18 in the midst of the riots, looting, and protests that followed last week’s shooting death of Daunte Wright, officials said. Two suffered minor injuries. A National Guard and Minneapolis police “neighborhood security team was fired upon early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting near Penn Avenue and Broadway in Minneapolis,” the Guard wro...

charging decisions in the Wright and Babbitt shootings. The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. Here is the column: Within an hour of each other, charging decisions in two lethal police shootings were announced with strikingly different conclusions. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements...

Bodycam footage shows moment gentle Zulu prince, 29, who once appeared on South Africa Idol is shot dead by cops after entering random home in Honolulu, taking his shoes off and acting odd Lindani Myeni, a married father-of-two from the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, was shot and killed Wednesday evening by Honolulu Police officers  The shooting took place during an apparent home invasion incident in Nuuanu  Police said the black man, who lived nearby, had followed a woman into her home, took ...

Vigil, peace walk in Chicago after police shooting of boy April 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Protesters march near Mayor Lori Lightfoots home in Logan Square to protest the fatal shooting by Chicago police of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, Friday, April 16, 2021. Video of last months encounter was released Thursday and provoked an outpouring of grief and outrage. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)Ashlee Rezin Garcia/AP CHICAGO (AP) — People will gather around Chicago on Sunday to reme...

Vigils Continue Sunday For Victims In FedEx Facility Mass Shooting Pria Mahadevan/WFYI A crowd gathers at Monument Circle on Sunday afternoon to honor the eight victims of Indianapolis latest mass shooting. Vigils for the victims of Thursday night’s mass shooting at a FedEx facility continued on Sunday as people gathered downtown to mourn those who were killed and to honor Daunte Wright -- who was killed by a police officer in Minnesota. A crowd gathered around 2 p.m. at Monument Circle to ho...

AP Photo/John Minchillo Here’s a headline you don’t see every day. Out in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where nightly protests and sporadic violence have been unfolding ever since the police shooting of Daunte Wright, a new group of players has taken the field. According to the Associated Press, a group of mostly Black civilians wearing body armor, many of whom are armed, has been patrolling the streets in the evenings, seeking to establish some distance between groups of noisy protesters or ...

4:22 pm UTC Apr. 18, 2021 Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network, Photo: Alton Strupp, Courier Journal After weeks of Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided hed seen enough of agitators, as he called them, who were "bent on sowing disorder and causing mayhem." There had been at least 79 demonstrations in Florida in the two months since George Floyd had died in Minneapolis, including some that turned violent. Amid a citywide curfew in Tampa, pro...

Random notes on the Chauvin trial Having watched the trial of Derek Chauvin from jury selection all the way through the parties’ cases, I want to offer my notes and impressions of what I saw. Hoping to provide some background and items of possible interest, I will compensate for the limitations of my notes by keeping them brief and conclusory (although this post isn’t short). I can only say in their behalf this is the way I see the case. On Monday the attorneys will make their closing argum...