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The defense has rested in the trial of Derek Chauvin, after spinning a bizarro-world interpretation of events in which George Floyd somehow killed himself. This line of argument isn’t shocking or stunning, given what we’ve seen before. But trying to turn Chauvin into the real victim, by asking what gave Floyd the right to die on him like that, is despicable. Floyd had an enlarged heart, Chauvin’s star witness, forensic pathologist David Fowler,testified Wednesday. And that implie...

Walz, DFL activists clash over National Guard and police response to unrest Walz, DFL activists clash over National Guard and police response to unrest Union activists taunted Minnesota National Guard soldiers this week and Democratic lawmakers tried to ban the use of tear gas as a crowd control tactic, showing the escalating tension between Gov. Tim Walz and his partys left flank. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Union activists taunted Minnesota National Guard soldiers this week and Democratic lawma...

KSTP Created: April 16, 2021 06:11 PM Protesters have gathered Friday outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department for a sixth night after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter fatally shot Wright during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon. Potter has since resigned from the department and has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. 9:15 p.m. The number of protesters outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department has...

Dispersal order issued after protesters breach fence in Brooklyn Center By FOX 9 Staff article Protests gathered for a sixth straight night of protests outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department following the police shooting of Daunte Wright. (FOX 9) BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - While no curfew was in place Friday night in Brooklyn Center, much of the crowd left after law enforcement gave a dispersal order shortly before 10 p.m. on the sixth consecutive night of protests. Wright, 20, w...

Fox News host Sean Hannity describes Chicago police shooting victim Adam Toledo as a 13-year-old man INSIDER 2 hrs ago sankel@businessinsider.com (Sophia Ankel) © NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Fox News host Sean Hannity. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Sean Hannity described Adam Toledo, who was killed by police last month, as a "13-year-old man." The Fox News host, who made the comment on his radio show on Thursday, was criticized online. In bodycam footage release...

The shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. The killing of a 13-year-old boy in Chicago. The pepper-spraying of an Army lieutenant in Virginia. There is still much work to be done. That was the message Friday evening of activists who gathered around the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Roanoke. “We witness almost every day an act of injustice against our brothers and sisters,” said Roanoke NAACP President Brenda Hale. “We are done dying. “Today, we ask to stop the profiling,...

Hundreds protest in Chicago over police shooting of Adam Toledo Richard Luscombe and Gloria Oladipo © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/AP Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after police released of body-cam video showing the deadly shooting of the 13-year-old boy with his hands in the air. About a thousand people gathered on Friday evening in a park on Chicago’s north-west si...

With Florida ‘anti-riot’ bill looming, St. Petersburg protesters return to the streets The legislation that’s sitting on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk had marchers worried as they protested police violence on Friday night.     People listen while several organizers speak outside St. Petersburg City Hall ahead of a march in solidarity against racism and police brutality on Friday. About 100 people gathered to march. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ] Updated 51 minutes ago ST. PETERSB...

Students seek end to police at Amherst College Amherst College GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Published: 4/16/2021 4:22:57 PM AMHERST — Student leaders at Amherst College, who have been making appeals for disarming the campus police and reducing its size and responsibilities, are moving toward a request to abolish the department. Joining the Black Student Union, which led a campus walkout this week in response to the police shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota, who was killed Sunday at a traffic stop i...

Oh look … it’s another insurrection. The corporate media doesn’t want to talk about the black insurrectionist who was a follower of Louis Farrakhan who attacked and killed a White male Capitol Police officer. They don’t want to talk about the Black Lives Matter insurrectionists who stormed the Iowa State Capitol and got into a fight with Iowa State Troopers. They don’t want to talk about the slow burning Antifa insurrection in Portland either which has been going on for years now. Rea...