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.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... MINNEAPOLIS — Former Officer Derek Chauvin ‘s trial in George Floyd’s death will be in a jury’s hands by early next week, after his brief defense wrapped up with Chauvin passing on a chance to take the stand and tell the public for the first time what he was thinking when he pressed his knee ...

Joe Biden stands down at a critical juncture for police reform Nearly a year after the police killing of George Floyd, pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden and members of Congress to show they are committed to holding police officers accountable for misconduct, excessive force and negligence after yet another agonizing week that has demonstrated how Americans of color are continuing to lose their lives during routine encounters with law enforcement. At this pivotal moment when the nation...

They need to stand up: As protests erupt over another police shooting, family of Lymond Moses still want answers Jeff Neiburg, Delaware News Journal Demonstrators demand county police name and arrest officers involved in Lymond Moses death Replay Video Amanda Spence saw the video. She watched the final moments of Daunte Wrights young life unfold through the lens of a camera affixed to the chest of a law enforcement officer – the same way shes watched, over and over again, th...

( ThyBlackMan.com) Probably the most vivid memory of my childhood was in 1968. This was the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. My mother, who was one of the only Black executives at a Hospital in the city called home to give us the news. She said that Dr. King was dead and that he had be taken to the hospital where she worked (Saint Joseph Hospital) in a Colonial Bread Truck because they feared racist democrats of the day would attack the ambulance in which he was supposed to be tran...

Madonna blasts Instagram user critical of her gun control post Wonderwall 3 hrs ago Mark Gray Madonna shot back at an Instagram user critical of a recent post calling for gun control. "This is so infuriating and unacceptable. God Bless Daunte and his family," she said, adding a hashtag advocating for gun control. © Beretta/Sims/Shutterstock Madonna After posting this, one of the singers 15.8 million Instagram followers felt that Madonna was living a double standard.  "I wo...

Police back off on 5th night of protests in Brooklyn Center No tear gas or any other crowd control munitions were used. Author: No one was arrested and physical altercations between law enforcement and demonstrators were few and far between during the fifth night of protesting in Brooklyn Center Thursday.  Protesters by the hundreds have gathered outside the heavily secured Brooklyn Center Police Department each night since 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, was fatally shot by a police o...

‘We stayed. The citizens are why we stay’: CNN reporter goes viral after police threaten to arrest journalists Andrew Buncombe Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. Gaza, Sri Lanka and Egypt.  Yet, it was while working in a Minneapolis suburb, that a CNN correspondent went viral after she tweeted her exasperation and disbelief when police threatened to arrest journalists covering protests over the killing of Daunte Wright. “In my 25 years as a reporter I have NEVER heard polic...

Federal prosecutors in Portland, Ore., have moved to dismiss almost half the cases they charged in connection with violence accompanying last year’s protests over racial injustice, as authorities grapple with how to tamp down politically motivated unrest that has arisen since then.

Chicago's police review board released body camera video footage on Thursday of a police officer's fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy late last month.

Closing Arguments Set for Monday in Trial of Former Officer Chauvin Prosecutors and the defense will deliver closing arguments in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday, after Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson rested his case on Thursday. Chavin, facing second-degree murder and other charges in the 2020 death of George Floyd, declined to take the stand at the Hennepin County Courthouse. After prosecutors brought back Dr. Martin Tobin, a pulmonologist, for a fresh se...