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(Brooklyn Center, MN)  --  Protesters clashed with authorities in Minnesota last night over the police shooting of Daunte Wright.  Last night was the fifth night of protests in Brooklyn Center, where hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside police headquarters.  The protests grew tense after Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliot said a curfew was going into effect until 6 am.  The crowds are demanding justice for Wright, the 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed during a traffic st...

Police shootings throughout April have angered citizens across the country. In the midst of the Derek Chauvin-George Floyd trial, a Minnesota police officer killed Daunte Wright after allegedly mistaking her taser for a gun and bodycam footage of Chicago police shooting and killing 13-year-old Adam Toledo in March was released earlier this week. On the heels of AR-Ab being sentenced to 45 years behind bars on drug charges, Yung Bleu is wondering why drug sentences are so hefty when it’s tough...

Rush Talks Truth: Riots Are an Offshoot of the Democrat Party Apr 16, 2021 BRETT: It’s incredible to see this explosion of violence that is sweeping across the country, and specifically in America’s cities — really from coast to coast — from New York City all the way out to Los Angeles and in Chicago and in Minneapolis. We see it heartbreakingly overnight in Indianapolis, what appears to be some sort of a random series of shootings at the FedEx facility at the Indianapolis airport, as a...

Bodycam footage released by US police has revealed a 13-year-old boy was not holding a gun at the time he was shot dead by an officer - despite contrary claims. Adam Toledo, who was Hispanic, is seen in the shaky footage, captured on March 29, appearing to drop a hand gun at his feet and raising his hands around a second before Officer Eric Stillman fired the fatal shot. Filmed in Chicago, the release of materials comes at a sensitive time in the US due to the ongoing trial of former Minneapoli...

Ohio man with assault rifle and ammo arrested at Times Square subway The 18-year-old placed an unloaded rifle on the ground in plain view, according to the NYPD Loading the player... Police in New York arrested an Ohio man who was in possession of a semi-automatic gun, ammo and gas mask at a Times Square subway station. According to the NYPD, the as yet unidentified 18-year-old was taken into custody on Friday after being observed with an unloaded semi-automatic gun near the A/C/E line at the T...

Friday at noon, the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) joined Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence to respond to Wrights death and "the trauma families are facing at this moment." They are demanding that the other involved officers be fired and prosecuted, and calling on lawmakers to pass Philando Castiles omnibus bill and other police accountability bills. Wrights death prompted several days in a row of protests outside the Brooklyn Center ...

Multiple People Shot at Indianapolis FedEx Facility: Reports On 4/16/21 at 12:26 AM EDT Last updated at 1:58 a.m. ET Multiple people have been shot Thursday night at a FedEx facility just outside the Indianapolis International Airport, police have said, according to multiple reports. The shots occurred shortly before 11:10 p.m. Thursday at 8951 Mirabel Road, which is on the southwest side of the airport. Its an area of not just the FedEx facility, but several hotels and warehouses south of the ...

At least 8 dead in Indianapolis FedEx shooting Indianapolis police said early Friday that eight people have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at a FedEx facility on the grounds of the Indianapolis International Airport late Thursday. Along with the eight people shot dead, at least four people have been hospitalized, one of them with critical injuries, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Genae Cook told reporters. Two other people were treated at the scene. Police sai...

AP Photos Murder. It was murder. That much is plain to see. The video tells no lies. I will forever hear George Floyd’s cries, see his anguished lifeless eyes. But what will the jury in Derek Chauvin’s trial for murder see? What if it was me instead of George Floyd beneath a white cop’s knee? How can we still hold to the faintest hope of justice and equality in America if the jury sets this murderer free? Columnists In-depth political coverage, sports analysis, entertainment reviews and c...

Pensacolas national police chief search down to three candidates The finalists are: John Ortolano, chief of police of Hobbs Police Department in Hobbs, New Mexico Eric Randall, assistant chief of police at Newport News Police Department in Newport News, Virginia Pensacola hired Public Sector Search & Consulting Inc. to conduct a nationwide search for Lyters replacement. The search resulted in the selection of eight final candidates, who then were ranked by a city selection committee. The top...