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Video of fatal shooting of Chicago teenager released KILLED BY POLICE: The release of the footage comes amid the trial over the killing of George Floyd last year, and after two men were killed in Chicago last month The Guardian Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged calm as body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Adam Toledo, 13, was released for first time on Thursday. The footage appears to show a Chicago police officer fatally shooting Toledo on M...

USA TODAY Trevor Noah is weighing in on "the talk" Black families often have with their children about police encounters.   Most recently: 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who died at the hands of police officer Kim Potter after a traffic stop. Potter has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and made her first court appearance Thursday.  Noah addressed the "danger" Black families caution each other about when coming across law enforcement in a Thursday segment of "The Daily Show." "Every ...

The group Justice for Black Lives announced a protest on Facebook for Friday at 5 p.m. Author: 13 ON YOUR SIDE Staff Published: 4:43 PM EDT April 16, 2021 Updated: 4:43 PM EDT April 16, 2021 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A call to action is planned for Friday in Grand Rapids in response to the Daunte Wright shooting.  Wright, a 20-year-old African American man, was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter during a traffic stop and attempted ar...

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 ...

Views: Bernie Sanders told CNNs Wolf Blitzer that he disagrees with Rep. Rashida Tlaib call to disband all policing in the country after the shooting of Daunte Wright. It wasnt an accident. Policing in our country is inherently & intentionally racist. Daunte Wright was met with aggression & violence. I am done with those who condone government funded murder. No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It cant be reformed. "No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It cant...

Flint youth gather to speak out against violence after fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright Updated 11:02 AM; Facebook Share FLINT, MI -- Flint youth and community supporters gathered Thursday, April 15, to speak out against violence across the nation. Days after another Black man was shot by police just miles from where Goerge Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, a small group of youths and community members gathered at the Church Without Walls on Flint’s North Side. Daunte Wright, ...

Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more. These 4 Days of 420 are for you. And here are the headlines. • Newly released police body cam footage shows the tragic and infuriating reality of 13-year-old Adam Toledos recent death in Chicago: The boy wasnt holding a gun, as police first claimed, when they killed him. • Eight people are dead following a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis last night. Police say the shooter appears to have taken his own life as well. • A "red...

Im just really hurt: Mother of Daunte Wrights son grieves loss By Rose Semenov article Chyna Whitaker (left) hugs her mother Erica after speaking about the loss of her sons father, Daunte Wright. (FOX 9) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte Wrights son, expressed her grief over losing her her sons father to a deadly police shooting during a press conference Friday afternoon in Minneapolis. "Im just really hurt for my son because he doesnt have his father now," said Chy...

A government service worthy of your taxpayer money? Oladimeji Odunsi on Unsplash Imagine a government service; it can be anything, federal, state, municipal. Imagine that it is funded by your tax dollars. You would, logically, want that service to be reliable, continuous, and worth the money you put into it. Now imagine that even though you pay for that service, the service gets to pick whether it wants to serve you. In fact, based completely on who you are or what house you live in, this servi...

The victims were found dead at the scene, Cook said during a briefing after 3 a.m. Friday. Those killed had injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. The gunman was found dead in what is believed to be a suicide nearby. "We are being made aware of multiple other people with injuries who have been transported to local hospitals or who have transported themselves to local hospitals," she said. Four people were transported by ambulance, with one in critical condition with injuries consistent with...