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Our reporters break down key moments in the Chauvin trial POLITICO 2 hrs ago By Brakkton Booker, Josh Gerstein, Maya King and Nolan D. McCaskill © Court TV via AP In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin address Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill during motions before the court on Thursday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. The killing of George Floyd’s last May by an ex-Mi...

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  CHICAGO -- Newly released video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old will be key evidence when prosecutors consider a case against the officer and are confronted with both the emotions surrounding the chilling footage and legal precedent that makes it difficult to bring charges against law enforcement. Video of last months encounter was released Thursday and provoked an outpouring of grief and outrage. It shows Officer Eric Stillman shooting Adam Toledo less tha...

By Victor Omondi On Wednesday in Minnesota, a White driver was captured on video running away from the police, trapping an officer in his truck’s window, and hitting the cop with a hammer. The good news, which of course raises more questions than answers, is that the police didn’t shoot white suspect. The incident occurred […]

April 16, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has always imagined itself as someplace special, a place apart. This attitude has irked our neighbors in the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin, and they have never suffered our swagger and hubris gladly. That sense of specialness springs, at least to some degree, from our geography. We’re a Midwestern agricultural state like our neighbors, but our heavily wooded landscape laced with thousands of lakes is home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River ...

A student-led group of protesters marched through Downtown La Crosse Thursday evening in the wake of the death of Daunte Wright, and to call out other injustices, including recent derogatory

Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte Wrights son: "I just want justice to be served" By Tori B. Powell A look back at the week that was in Minnesota "I never thought in a million years that this would happen," Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte Wrights 2-year-old son, said in a news conference Friday. "Im just really hurt for my son because he doesnt have his father now."  Whitaker said she is still processing Wrights death after he was shot and killed by a police officer...

Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images (MINNESOTA) — Kim Potter, the former police officer who shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter. Wright’s mother, Katie Wright, says she wants “100 percent accountability” in the case proceeding against Potter. “We’re still never going to be able to see our baby boy,” added Mrs. Wright. “There’s never gonna be justice for us.” Daunte Wright was shot by Pott...

Merrick Garland Unshackles Justice Department To Deal With Police Misconduct 04/16/21 AT 3:57 PM Attorney General Merrick Garland has given the Justice Department permission to resume imposing consent decrees when it finds civil rights violations by local law enforcement. In a Friday memo, Garland let Justice Department personnel know they once more have access to the legal tool. Consent decrees are agreements imposed and lifted by courts when a federal investigation finds violations or widesp...

White House sidelines planned commission, eyes “George Floyd” bill