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By Bill Ketter | CNHI News Service May 23, 2021 4 hrs ago Alan Cashaw, 69, Johnstown, PA, NAACP Chapter president, discusses outside the city’s Public Safety Building on May 17 how underlying biases hinder racial justice. CNHI News Service The struggle for racial justice has touched Alan Cashaw’s entire life. One year after George Floyd’s murder by a police officer, Cashaw said inertia rooted in “underlying biases” remains...

Los Angeles, like other cities across the nation, is facing a rise in gun violence. And the police budget is growing.

As Minneapolis prepares to mark the first anniversary of Floyds death Tuesday, it remains in turmoil, with many of the racial inequities highlighted during…

Wisconsin deputy David Willoughby, a former Marine, was suspended for having the audacity to ask politicians where they stood on Rashida Tlaib’s tweet. Willoughby obviously loves his country and continues to defend it. He was suspended by Milwaukee County Sheriff Earnell Lucas after he sent an email to local politicians simply asking whether they supported an anti-law enforcement tweet by Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Wisconsin Right Now reports. Rashida is strongly defendi...

Watch Live: George Floyd Memorial Foundation holds rally and march in Minneapolis May 23, 2021 / 1:43 PM / CBS News CBSN The George Floyd Memorial Foundation and the National Action Network are holding a rally and march on Sunday in Minneapolis to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Floyds death, which sparked worldwide protests and a reckoning on race in the U.S. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted last month of killing Floyd after pressing his knee into Floyds neck f...

WORLD / AMERICAS Smoking gun By AFP Published: May 23, 2021 07:03 PM "Day of Enlightenment." Thats how the George Floyd Memorial Center wants May 25 as a day to commemorate the anniversary of the 46-year-old black mans death under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A visitor attends the free public art exhibit Justice for George: Messages from the People at Phelps Field Park near George Floyd Memorial Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US on Saturday. Photo: A...

This week marks one year since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man was killed by then police officer Derek Chauvin, who held his knee on Floyd for nearly nine minutes. His death, recorded on video by a bystander, sparked widespread protests globally, and reignited the Black Lives Matter movement and conversations around race. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro joins to reflect on the past year.

When policemen are saying wait a minute, this is going too far. >> absolutely, reverend al. and its profound when you think about attorney general keith ellison, who has this track record of being a champion on civil rights, how zealous he was in prosecuting that case and saying to the police, this is your opportunity to do the right thing. i dont know if were going to see that in daunte wrights case. dont know if well see it in louisiana, so its rare. we were hoping that would be the new preced...

Leading the prosecution of i think its kimberly porter, the woman who shot and killed daunte wright. i believe wrights family is the client of yours. given the success of the late trial, how confident are you that youll achieve the same level of justice for wright in that trial? >> well, obviously attorney general ellison the first african-american attorney general in minnesotas history, who has a track record for being a champion in civil rights is somebody who comes to the task of being very f...

Others. so i believe that its going to happen. the question is how much give and take is going to happen between the two sides of the aisle because its politics. >> when you look at the that as we are in the courthouse, when we heard about daunte wright being killed, the jury was going into closing arguments, into deliberations, another killing just ten miles away from here. then after that, elizabeth city, where we had the killing there. both cases, youre involved in. national action network an...