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      The narrative of the Black Man in America continues with Daunte Wright, 20, gunned down by a white, female cop in a Minneapolis suburb who thought she was using a Taser.      Does it sound like Fruitvale Station 2009, when Oscar Grant was face down on the ground and shot by an officer who thought he was firing a Taser? And all of this just 10 miles from where another white officer is on trial for excessive force that resulted in the killing of George Floyd.    Earl Simmons wo...

Why Joe Biden Is Ditching a Policing Commission Time 7 hrs ago Philip Elliott © Kerem Yucel—AFP/Getty Images Sheriff officers stand guard outside the Brooklyn Center police station as demonstrators stand on the other side of the chain-link fence protesting the death of Daunte Wright who was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minn. on April 14, 2021. This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up to get stories like t...

By Scott Bauer and Mike HouseholderApril 15, 2021 Law enforcement officers clear an area of demonstrators during a protest over Sundays fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) 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 fo...

For police officers, cases mark an uncertain line that can be the difference between discipline and incarceration. Jonathan Turley Opinion columnist Within an hour of each other, charging decisions in two lethal police shootings were announced with strikingly different conclusions. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions. The timing of the two ...

Apr 15, 2021 Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre says he believes athletes who kneel during the national anthem have "created more turmoil than good." Favres comments came during an interview with The Daily Wires Andrew Klavan. The former Packers quarterback lamented the inclusion of political speech during sporting events and said he doesnt want to watch "whats going on outside of the game." "I know when I turn on a game, I want to watch a game. I want to watch players play and teams win, lo...

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Daunte Wright Had a Warrant Out for His Arrest for Attempted Aggravated Robbery Martin Gould and Ruth Styles, Daily Mail, April 13, 2021 Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege. That is the case that led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on Sunday, leading to days of unrest. And online speculation tha...

It Was Not An Accident, Former Suffolk County Sheriff Says Of Daunte Wright Killing Demonstrators gather along a perimeter fence during a protest over Sundays fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. John Minchillo / AP Share Andrea Cabral on BPR | April 15, 2021 According to the Brooklyn Centers police chief, the now-former police officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright mea...

On April 11, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. It was the latest in a long line of killings of Black people by police in America. An officers body camera captured footage of Wrights shooting, but podcast host Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr., who lost a close friend from college to police violence a few years ago, doesnt plan on watching it. "I choose not to put myself through that," he says. "I know if I wat...

Biden’s sanctions on Russia ‘could spark invasion of Ukraine’ after Putin threatens to ‘destroy’ Kiev Will Stewart in Moscow Updated: Apr 15 2021, 13:06 ET US sanctions imposed on Russia could trigger a full-scale invasion of eastern Ukraine, suggested a Kremlin insider. Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of state-funded RT, asked on Telegram whether "taking Donbass" might be seen as an "answer" to Americas crackdown. 4 Simonyan was referring to the war-torn disputed region in easter...