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Backed against her Brooklyn Center apartment building with a group of neighbors, Endeshia Tolliver watched warily as a line of riot police launched less-lethal projectiles at protesters darting between trees. Tolliver, a special education assistant at Patrick Henry High School in north Minneapolis, has lived in the neighborhood for 14 years. She has made it a point to get to know the police, who are headquartered next door, and she trained her teenage son on how to survive a traffic stop as soo...

Here’s what’s happening across our nation. Minnesota imposes a mandatory curfew to contain the riots Will Smith stops shooting his latest movie in Georgia Michigan shuts down as CoVID surges 3 in 5 Americans gain substantial weight during the pandemic The US Poverty rate rises at the fastest pace in 50 years Plus, Bills Message of the Day on the shooting of Daunte Wright The OReilly Update is on Apple Podcasts and other podcast platforms. Subscribe to the podcast here.

Biden has pledged to help combat racism in policing, helping African Americans who supported him in large numbers last year in the wake of protests that swept the nation after Floyd’s death and restarted a national conversation about race. But he also has long projected himself as an ally of police, including Tuesday, when he traveled to the U.S. Capitol to pay respects to William Evans, a Capitol police officer who was killed when a suspect rammed him with his car outside the citadel of demo...

6:33 AM I was four months pregnant the night of July 6, 2016, when, scrolling on Facebook, I realized the video showing the aftermath of Philando Castile’s death had already gone viral. His partner, Diamond Reynolds, captured his final moments in real time. It was horrific. I had nightmares for weeks. Philando was killed 10 minutes from my Minneapolis home. His locs reminded me of my brothers’; the warmth emanating from his smile was reminiscent of my husband’s. I had watched the video of...

ICE priority arrests down 75% under Biden (Washington Times) Among the priority categories of security and safety cases, arrests of migrants with sexual assault charges were down more than 20%, weapons-offense arrests slid nearly 30% and arrests of kidnappers were down nearly 40% compared to the same period a year ago. … “Almost one thousand more ‘worst of the worst’ criminal aliens were arrested under Trump’s priorities,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies direc...

“We just hope and have been urging them that in that process they take a realistic look on that legislation and what they need to do to amend it to bring it to a point where it can pass,” she said. “We suggest they do something that’s more pared down.” During his campaign, Mr. Biden also pledged to restore the use of consent decrees, a court order negotiated between federal and local officials that the Justice Department for years used to pressure police departments. The Trump adminis...

Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Returns To Work Without Discipline Officer Rusten Sheskey came back to active duty on March 31 after shooting and paralyzing the 29-year-old Blake in August. The white police officer who paralyzed Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, from the waist down by shooting him seven times last year, has returned to work without facing any disciplinary action. Officer Rusten Sheskey came back from administrative leave on March 31 after an investigation into the Augu...

Credit: Twitter President Joe Biden and other Democrat leaders are joining forces with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton to talk about racial equality. This year’s National Action Network’s (NAN) National Convention—taking place online on April 14—is set to be one of the largest civil rights conferences in the country, according to a White House press release. Addressing some of the nation’s most significant concerns, the NAN Network is arguably the most crucial online convention o...

Charges filed against former Minn police officer in Daunte Wright shooting April 14, 2021 April 14, 2021 The news first reported by the Star Tribune. Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb on Sunday. Former Police Chief Tim Gannon said Potter mistakenly shot Wright after pulling out her service weapon instead of her taser. Gannon resigned from the department on Tuesday. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said at a news conference that the city ...

A white police officer who fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb resigned on Tuesday (Apr 13), as did the city's ...