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The Root Cause Is Resisting Arrest - And Response (2) Wednesday, April 14, 2021 The people in Minnesota have no reason to be rioting. If Daunte Wright had not tried to escape he would be alive today. Had he not resisted the weapon mistake would never have happened. Now one life is gone and another will haunted and ruined forever, the root cause being resisting arrest. Pure and simple as that. Personal responsibility. Sam Lewallen, Jr. * * * Actually, Duante Wright was given the opportun...

Cardi B calls out blue check Republicans for ranting about everything except police brutality INSIDER 7 hrs ago cahlgrim@businessinsider.com (Callie Ahlgrim) © Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Cardi B attends Paris Fashion Week in 2019. Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Cardi B shared a video calling out "blue check Republicans" for staying silent on police brutality. She referenced the pepper-spraying of Army Lt. Caron Nazario and the recent killing of Daunte Wr...

President Biden should name Vice President Harris to launch and lead a police reform drive ASAP Our View: Biden owes Black voters for his job and Senate control. Its past time to ramp up police reform and make it a priority. Lives depend on it. The Editorial Board USA TODAY “You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours,” President-elect Joe Biden said on Nov. 7 to the African American voters who had saved his candidacy in the South Carolina primary, put him over the top to win the pre...

Is This a Community? Zak Cheney-Rice © Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images Protesters face police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images During a Monday press conference the day before he resigned as Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, chief of police, Tim Gannon used the word “community” half a dozen times. He was trying to project a sense of shared investment between his officers and the people whose streets they patrol. He ...

Former officer charged in the US Minneapolis UNREST: An official said Kim Potter ‘must be held accountable,’ while protesters and police faced off outside a police station for the fourth night AP, BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota A former police officer yesterday faced her first court appearance in a traffic-stop shooting of a man that has prompted four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and police in a small suburb Minneapolis. Kim Pot...

CNN Media Member Attacked Covering Minnesota Police Riots, Protests A CNN news crew was attacked as the network was trying to cover protests and riots following the shooting death of Daunte Wright earlier this week in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. According to video footage posted by a Washington Examiner reporter, Nick Rowan, a crew member was seen speaking to protesters when what appeared to be a frozen bottle of water was thrown at his head. “Protesters throw a water bottle at a CNN crew mem...

Derek Chauvin murder trial could be the verdict of a generation OPINION: Former Minneapolis officer Chauvins conviction could become a mandate against the senseless disregard of Black lives that we have all longed for There was no justice in the murder of Amadou Diallo.  Sean Bell.  Oscar Grant.  Tamir Rice.  But Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer whose horrifying conduct outraged a nation, could spend decades, if not the rest of his life in prison for murdering George Floyd. ...

Menu OHIO Division of Diversity and Inclusion mourns killing of Daunte Wright and invites University community to open forum Published: April 15, 2021 Author: Staff reports The OHIO Division of Diversity and Inclusion joins our community in profound sorrow at the killing of 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright on Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Mr. Wright was shot dead during a traffic stop while the officer attempted to arrest him. The local police chief la...

Tweet Former Brooklyn Center Minnesota police officer Kim Potter was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon, charged with Second Degree Manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright.  According to NBC News: Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, was taken into custody about 11:30 a.m. at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul, officials said. She will be charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with Wright’s death, Washington ...

At the same time, it would be wrong for people to think that the trial has some sort of larger, transformative potential for policing and punishment in this country. If Derek Chauvin goes to prison, this will, for some, be evidence of the system “working”. Chauvin did something bad, and now he’s been punished. Case closed. Justice served. Next. In this scenario, nothing is on trial besides Derek Chauvin himself. And many people would be fine with that. But it’s simply not en...