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Minnesota police shooting rekindles police reform debate, puts budget talks in question The renewed calls for police accountability and transparency came as the Legislature entered its final month of session. 10:00 am, Apr. 16, 2021 × Quita Leach of Duluth leads a march on First Street in Duluth Wednesday, April 14, 2021 protesting the police shooting of Daunte Wright. On Sunday, April 11, 2021, Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by officer Kim Potter durin...

Protesters march in Hollywood denouncing Daunte Wright shooting April 15, 2021 Updated 11:30 PM PT Print A heavy police presence met protesters marching down the streets in Hollywood late Thursday night calling for justice after the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. Video footage showed dozens of demonstrators walking about 10 p.m. while chanting Wright’s name and “Black Lives Matter.” At least a dozen polic...

MN Senate passes public safety bill without DFL-backed police reform measures Democrats say the bill doesnt do enough to address police accountability. Author: The Republican-controlled Senate has passed a public safety omnibus bill without police reform measures.  The public safety and judiciary funding bill that cleared the Senate on a 44-23 vote Thursday includes money for the court system, prisons and makes changes to sexual assault laws, including closing the "voluntary intoxication" loo...

At a time when police departments are in need of more diversity, a historically Black college is stepping up to funnel more Black people into the pool of candidates.West Baltimore-native Tyrese Davis, 22, is part of the inaugural class of the new Lincoln University of Missouris Law Enforcement Training Academy. He said he wants to be a police officer who brings change."I just want to help people," Davis said.Davis said he wants to change the way people see police."I know a lot of people in...

Warning: graphic content. Authorities in Chicago released police body camera footage Thursday showing an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old Latino boy, as the mayor of Americas third-largest city appealed for calm over the "excruciating" video. The shocking footage shows teenager Adam Toledo running from officers in the small hours of 29 March and then being hit with a single shot to the chest as he stops and raises his hands. Prosecutors say he was armed, although no weapon is visible in his ...

Disturbing bodycam footage of a 13-year-old boy being shot dead by police in Chicago shows the youth appearing to drop a handgun and raising his hands less than a second before an officer kills him. A still frame taken from Officer Eric Stillman’s body camera footage shows that Adam Toledo was not holding anything and had his hands up when Officer Stillman shot him once in the chest at about 3am on March 29. Police, who were responding to reports of shots fired in the area, say the boy had a ...

Today on The View, actress Yvette Nicole Brown tried to surpass comedian Chelsea Handler for the most hateful Hollywood hot takes over the Daunte Wright police shooting. While on The View today, the Community actress, who also appeared on several Disney shows and Nickelodeon, claimed that the officer who mistook her gun for a taser was feigning a performance so she could get away with “killing a black person.” Co-host Meghan McCain asked their guest, a fellow gun-owner, how the officer c...

Photo credits: Story provided by The Associated Press Former Officer Derek Chauvin (pictured) chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday, passing up the chance to explain to the jury and the public for the first time what he was thinking when he pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck. Closing arguments are set to begin Monday, after which a racially diverse jury will begin deliberating at a barbed-wire-ringed courthouse in a city on edge — not just...

Minnesota mayor blasts police tactics to control protesters Photo: AP. Nevaeh Gibson inspects a two-layer fenced perimeter around the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest in response to the shooting death of Daunte Wright, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) By TODD RICHMOND and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Updated: April 16, 2021 01:20 PM Created: April 16, 2021 11:50 AM BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) -...

Des Moines Register Iowa House lawmakers have passed a wide-ranging bill strengthening legal protections for police and raising penalties for protest-related offenses. Wednesdays House debate, which frequently invoked last summers protests for racial justice, came as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man, and as Minnesota has seen renewed protests over the police killing of another Black man, Daunte Wrig...