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Listen • 5:54 A demonstrator hold a sign "Justice for George" outside the Hennepin County Government Center during the opening statement of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin on March 29, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images) Georgetown University Law Center professor Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley to discuss the case presented by the defense so far in the murder trial of former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin. He also discuss...

news One of those kids everybody looked up to A few years ago, high school mentor Jonathan Mason was asked by a young black pupil what he should do if he was ever pulled over by police. "If they pull you over, make sure your hands are on the top of the steering wheel, dont reach for anything," Mr Mason, speaking to the Associated Press, recalls telling the teenager. The boy, already jaded from seeing multiple cases of police brutality on the news, replied: "Man, why we gotta do all that just f...

CNN employee struck in head by water bottle at Brooklyn Center protest The man was knocked the ground, clearly dazed by the assault. Author: A member of CNNs news team was struck in the side of the head by a water bottle that appears to have been thrown at him with intention as he covered the civil unrest following Daunte Wrights death in Brooklyn Center.  The video clip shows the man telling protesters that he doesnt want any trouble. Moments later, a water bottle strikes him in the head, kno...

Daunte Wright, slain by police, known as jokester, young dad Tim Sullivan And Denise Lavoie Associated Press Updated:  Tags:  Ben Crump Law, PLLC. FILE - This photo provided by Ben Crump Law, PLLC. shows Daunte Wright and his son, Daunte Jr., at his first birthday party. Wright, 20, was killed during a traffic stop bya white suburban Minneapolis police officer on Sunday, April 11, 2021. (Ben Crump Law, PLLC. via AP) MINNEAPOLIS – A few years ago, Daunte Wright was talking to a high school m...

About two dozen people, most from outside Brooklyn Center, were arrested in the Minnesota city late Wednesday as unrest continued in the wake of a fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man. Demonstrators gathered around the Brooklyn Center Police Department and erected makeshift barricades before lobbing bricks, bottles, and other projectiles at law enforcement officers. Eventually, the mix of state and local officers, bolstered by National Guard members, ordered the crowd to disperse. “We were ver...

David Ryder/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. A "pretext" traffic stop is when police pull you over for a minor traffic violation and then use that to search for a more serious offense. These stops dont reduce crime, and too often lead to the deaths of Black motorists. Until theres extensive reformation, police shouldnt be allowed in situations where ...

June 21, 2020 A shooting in a popular Minneapolis nightlife area early Sunday left one man dead and 11 people wounded in a chaotic scene that sent people ...

A white former police officer faced her first court appearance Thursday in the traffic-stop shooting of a Black motorist that has engulfed a small Minneapolis suburb with four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and police.

But those successes masked other failures down the ballot for the party. Democrats lost seats in the House and lost Senate races in states where they thought they had a chance, including North Carolina and Montana. At least some officials blame those losses on the defund the police debate. Republicans believe the defund the police narrative is a political gift they can use again to win over swing voters and to energize their own political base. ADVERTISEMENT “This is music to the Republican m...

PHONEY WAR Russian state TV ‘used fake footage in ALASKA and Bulgaria to claim NATO were supplying arms to Ukraine’ Updated: Apr 15 2021, 11:01 ET Invalid Date, RUSSIAN state TV used footage of a US military plane landing in Alaska and a tank being unloaded in Bulgaria to falsely imply NATO was delivering arms to rival Ukraine, it is claimed.  With tensions reaching boiling point over the build up of Russian troops close to the Ukrainian border, the “fake” clips were shown to milli...