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Pat Robertson: Chauvin should be put under the jail Joseph Choi © The Hill Pat Robertson: Chauvin should be put under the jail Evangelical media mogul Pat Robertson on Thursday called for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to be put "under the jail" for kneeling on George Floyds neck. During a segment on "The 700 Club," Robertson discussed the recent police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn., and expressed dismay at the "onslaught" of police vio...

Kim Potter due in court on manslaughter charge over Daunte Wright death Potter shot and killed Wright, 20, during traffic stop in what her police chief said was a case of her confusing her Taser with a gun Members of Daunte Wright’s family visit a memorial site near where he was killed in Brooklyn Center. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Members of Daunte Wright’s family visit a memorial site near where he was killed in Brooklyn Center. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Assoc...

SHOW TRANSCRIPT Four nights in a row now weve seen tense moments between law enforcement officials and protesters. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott distanced his police department from some of that chaos saying its the sheriffs department that was leading the response to protests last night and that none of his police officers shot any pepper spray or gas. 

Ex-officer charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright killing An ex-police officer who shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter, authorities said Wednesday. Kim Potter, who resigned as a Brooklyn Center police officer this week,is charged in Sunday’s shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office dete...

Print Actors Olivia Munn, Ken Jeong, Simu Liu and other stars united this week for a PSA promoting the movement to #StopAsianHate in the United States. On Wednesday, “Be Water” director Bao Nguyen debuted his star-studded video campaign “Together.” The three-minute video also doubles as a fundraiser for the AAPI Community Fund, which benefits numerous organizations supporting Asian American communities. “There has been a lot of darkness surrounding us lately,” Nguyen wrote on Instag...

UT students protest Daunte Wright killing Around 50 people gathered Wednesday night at the steps of the UT Tower to remember and protest the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by police in Minnesota during a traffic stop on Sunday. Communities across the nation have been protesting the killing, eleven months after a police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, which is 10 miles north from the suburb where Wright was shot. Cops Off Campus UT organized t...

© Getty Images Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Daunte Wright, made her first court appearance Thursday after bonding out of jail late Wednesday. On a brief Zoom hearing that occurred less than a week after Wrights death on Sunday, Potter was informed of the terms of her bail agreement and of her next court appearance, which was set for May 17. During the hearing, the judge noted that Potters next hearing b...

George Floyd. “You know the police in Virginia picked up a lieutenant in the Army and began to give him trouble, and our state police are highly trained, but why they don’t stop this, and this thing that’s going on in Minnesota with the Derek Chauvin. I mean they ought to put him under the jail. He has caused so much trouble by kneeling on the death of George Floyd, I mean his neck, it’s just terrible what’s happening,” Robertson said. “And the police, why don’t they open their ...

The former Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop was due to make her first court appearance on Thursday as the family called for "full accountability" for his death.

Apr 15, 2021 A former police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb after a traffic stop has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter is charged in Sundays shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said. Potter, a 26-year police veteran, would face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $20,000.