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© Getty Images This was bound to be a fraught time for Minneapolis, with the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin now wrapping up its third week. The recent killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright at the hands of former police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop has amplified tensions in the city. This comes on the heels of nationally-released video footage of a traffic stop in December 2020, in Windsor, Va., in which police officers pulled out weapons on Caron Nazario at a gas stati...

Pat Robertson surprises everyone and hits out at police over shooting of Daunte Wright and death of George Floyd Oliver OConnell © Provided by The Independent Evangelical leader Pat Robertson gave a damning critique of American police for an “onslaught” of violence against Black Americans, blaming a “low-paid” force consisting of “not the best and brightest”. In the latest edition of CBN’s 700 Club, Mr Robertson was incredulous at the claim by former police offic...

Black Lives Matter protesters clash with police outside LAPD headquarters and scrawl KKK on sign Emma Colton © Provided by Washington Examiner An estimated 100 Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department, with officers wearing riot gear to disperse the group. “LAPD in riot gear squaring off a with a group of about 100 BLM protesters in downtown LA in front of LAPD headquarters. There was a vigil for #DaunteWright earlier, and the protest...

The city of New Orleans will pay $13.3 million in settlements of lawsuits over deadly police shootings after Hurricane Katrina and a fatal beating just before the 2005 storm, the mayor’s office announced Monday. Mayor Mitch Landrieu apologized to the victims’ families at a Monday afternoon news conference, and said he hopes their forgiveness will help the city find peace... Attorney Aug 22, 2014 Lawyers for the estate of a confidential informant killed in a botched sting op...

Adam Toledo: Body camera video in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by Chicago police has been released CNN 3 hrs ago By Dakin Andone, CNN © Elizabeth Toledo via WLS An image of Adam Toledo provided by his mother Elizabeth Toledo to CNN affiliate WLS. [Breaking news update at 3:50 p.m. ET] Authorities in Chicago have released body camera video that shows a 13-year-old being shot by police officers on March 29. CNN teams have viewed the footage, which appears to show l...

By Cherranda Smith On Wednesday (April 14), President Joe Biden said some parts of the US are “backsliding into the days of Jim Crow” with their voting restriction laws, comparing them to poll taxes and literacy tests many states instituted to restrict Black Americans’ access to the ballot.  “The cry for justice 400 years in the making is ringing out across our nation,” Biden said during the National Action Network virtual convention.   “Parts of our country are backsliding in...

Automated technology and unarmed monitors could do most of the job more efficiently and more safely. By Sarah A. Seo Dr. Seo is a professor at Columbia Law School who focuses on the history of criminal law and procedure and is the author of “Policing the Open Road.” April 15, 2021 Credit...Rich Legg, via Getty Images When Daunte Wright was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop near Minneapolis this week, he joined a long list of people who have died at the hands of the police aft...

Updated: Apr 15 2021, 18:03 ET Invalid Date, PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced a string of sweeping sanctions against Russia on Thursday, punishing Moscow for its interference in the 2020 election, hacking of government networks and "abuses in Crimea". In brief remarks delivered from the East Room of the White House, Biden said, "We cannot allow a foreign power to interfere in our democratic process with impunity." 5 Biden said, We cannot allow a foreign power to interfere in our democratic proces...

Scott Bauer And Mike Householder In this courtroom sketch, attorney Earl Gray, left, appears as he represents former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter, background right, during her first court appearance, over Zoom, in the traffic-stop shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (Cedric Hohnstadt via AP) April 15, 2021 - 7:28 PM BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - Daunte Wrights family members joined with community...

First published on Thu 15 Apr 2021 16.55 EDT Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, stood alongside leaders of the city’s Latinx community on Thursday and called for calm in the city and “deep empathy” as body camera video was released for the first time of a police officer shooting dead 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month. Lightfoot, her voice breaking while speaking at a press conference before the footage was released to the public, describing the video as “incredibly difficult to watch, ...