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Minneapolis wants George Floyd Square back. Marcia Howard isn’t ready to hand it over.

Following months of public criticism of a small team of officers charged with leading de-escalation training for the Des Moines Police Department that included two officers named in excessive force and racial profiling lawsuits, the city will hire a third party to run its future training sessions. In the middle of a public-comment period at Monday’s Des Moines City Council meeting, Mayor Frank Cownie announced the city is in the process of negotiating a contract with the Police Executive Res...

The prosecutor on the case of the shooting death of Daunte Wright has resigned, citing “vitriol” and divisive politics that make the job of getting to the truth near impossible.

Updated on May 24, 2021 at 4:21 pm For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: "No justice, no peace." Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that "Black Lives Matter." After Breonna Taylor was shot dead in March 2020 by police who raided her apartment with a no-knock warrant, protesters demanding accountability urged the country to "Say her name." Following the murder of George Floyd by an officer who knelt on his ...

Updated on May 24, 2021 at 5:22 pm For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: "No justice, no peace." Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that "Black Lives Matter." After Breonna Taylor was shot dead in March 2020 by police who raided her apartment with a no-knock warrant, protesters demanding accountability urged the country to "Say her name." Following the murder of George Floyd by an officer who knelt on his ...

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, his girlfriend is remembering his impact.

Prosecutor in shooting death of Daunte Wright resigns, citing overall partisan politics and ‘vitriol’ Theresa Braine The prosecutor on the case of the shooting death of Daunte Wright has resigned, citing “vitriol” and divisive politics that make the job of obtaining justice near impossible. The resignation of Imran Ali, assistant criminal division chief at the Washington County Attorney’s Office, comes two days after Minnesota announced that state attorney general Keit...

Parents and siblings of Black men killed by police urged people during a discussion in the city where George Floyd was killed a year ago to join them in pursuing legal changes they say can make more deaths less likely in the future

It has been a year of racial reckoning, punctuated by violent videos of Black Americans being injured or killed in police custody. And while the videos sparked...

Families of those slain by police call for lasting change May 24, 2021 — 8:30pm Text size Copy shortlink: It is a fraternity, they said, of which no one wants to be a part. On the dais at the downtown Minneapolis hotel Monday was the mother of Oscar Grant (killed in 2009 by transit police in the Bay Area). Next to her was the mother of Eric Garner (killed by a New York police officer in 2014), who was seated n...