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George Floyd, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, and on and on and on — all black people, generally "justice-involved," who resisted the police and ended up dead. Name a civilian killed by cops of any other race that led to international protests, billboards, renamed streets, hashtags, memorials, NBA jerseys, murals, busts, tribute songs or O magazine covers. 

MOST SURREAL MOMENT: Getting Democrats to applaud "American."

Our nation heads into this Black History Month with nerves raw yet again. Last Friday, footage of the savage fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers shocked our conscience, and brought back painful memories of 1991 in Los Angeles. That year, we watched as another video went viral -- long before TikTok and Twitter -- graphically showing the brutal beating of a Black man named Rodney King by four police officers. When the lawmen were acquitted months later, a violent uprising...

Tyre Nichols is one of hundreds of people who were killed by police after a traffic stop. Heres why the routine encounters escalate into violence.

Attorney General Keith Ellison says he’s been asking the Legislature for years to give him more funding for the criminal division of his office.

Millions of dollars in state funding may soon be accessible to the office of state Attorney General Keith Ellison and an expanded public defender system.

In the wake of continuing questions of racial-profiling after Tyre Nichols’ death in Memphis, Illinois’ official data shows that several suburban Chicago...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to bo...

Kansas City Star. February 1, 2023.

Millions of extra dollars are working their way through the Minnesota Legislature to beef up the ability of Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.