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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyds civil rights, according to a notice sent out Monday by the courts electronic filing system.

The Hennepin County assistant medical examiner rule Wright's death a homicide.

At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black motorist, the core of her defense is clear: She s

Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of Daunte Wright walked jurors through the differences between her handgun and her Taser on Monday

If cops like Kim Potter had empathy, there would be no need for a trial, because they would accept prison time as part of their punishment. Even with her cop cam confessional of guilt, Potter thinks she is the real victim.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer put the differences between her handgun and her Taser on display

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has lifted a tsunami alert following a magnitude 7.3 undersea earthquake that struck off Flores Island, triggering panic in a region prone to fatal quakes.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer put the differences between her handgun and her Taser on display for jurors, seeking to raise questions about how an experienced officer could confuse the two weapons in the shooting death of Daunte Wright.

Daunte Wright, 20, was killed April 11 after being pulled over in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. Kim Potter, 49, is charged with manslaughter.

Prosecutors will continue calling witnesses Tuesday morning in the trial of Kim Potter as they try to poke holes in the former Brooklyn Center police officer’s claim that she mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last year.