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Office of AG Keith Ellison will lead prosecution against Kim Potter, officer charged in Daunte Wrights death Activists and Wrights family had requested Ellisons office handle the prosecution. Author: Hennepin County Jail Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has taken over the prosecution of Kimberly Potter, the now-former Brooklyn Center police officer who is charged in the death of Daunte Wright.  Ellison accepted Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freemans request to prosecute the case after...

Josh Skluzacek Created: May 21, 2021 12:09 PM Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellisons office is taking over the prosecution of the officer charged in the death of Daunte Wright. Ellisons office said Friday that he accepted the request from Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman after Washington County Attorney Pete Orput returned the case. Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is charged with second-degree manslaughter in Wrights death on April 11. According to ...

By Pat Sweeney May 21, 2021 | 12:43 PM Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he will lead the prosecution of a former suburban police officer who is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright. Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old motorist, on April 11. The city’s police chief, who has since stepped down, had said he believed Potter meant to use her Taser instead of her handgun. Ellison made the announcement tod...

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Sydney Capers with son Phoenix. Sydney Capers of Springfield, 25 years old, gave birth to her son, Phoenix, last November. She was an early childhood education major in college, and nannied for special needs children. She has since worked at preschools and plans to go back to teaching once her son is ready for child care himself. Phoenix struggled in his first months and is now gaining his strength. He is attentive and stylish in the cool cloth...

How brands and social media platforms benefit from activism and trauma Viral violent videos have become tools for change, but the footage can also affect our mental health By Radheyan Simonpillai May 20, 2021 Trigger warning: Tuesday, May 25 is the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, which was recorded by then 17-year-old Darnella Frazier on her cellphone. That devastating 10-minute video would circulate online and instigate a global movement. “We would not have seen the...

EREK CHAUVIN was born three years after George Floyd, and grew up in Cottage Grove, a suburb of the Twin Cities 20 miles from the corner where one man killed the other. Cottage Grove is a place of detached bungalows, private yards and public driveways connected by shared lawns. Several houses have large pick-up trucks parked in front. Some fly outsized American flags from their flagpoles. This is not a rich place, but it is several rungs above Cuney Homes, the complex of apartments in Houston�...

Heidi Ehalt, Dana Thompson It takes a certain level of bravery to open a restaurant during a pandemic. Then there’s the outright audacity required to open one of America’s first Indigenous-focused, fully decolonized restaurants during a pandemic in Minneapolis—a city that, with George Floyd’s murder a year ago, became a Midwestern microcosm of America’s racism problem. A city where this spring, while residents simultaneously tried to stop the collective bleeding and brace themselves ...

George Floyds murder, one year later: Two generations of Black men on the fight against racism Royson James and his two sons debate whether lasting progress has really been made in the fight against anti-Black racism By Royson James May 20, 2021 Royson James (centre) and his sons, Sheldon James (left) and Darnell James (Photograph by Dimitri Aspinall) I watched the George Floyd video standing in my kitchen, trembling. It took me back to the slavery museum in Selma, Alabama, where, ...

Tweet Gee, I wonder why. The Star Tribune reports today that police have endured “a wave of assaults” from suspects they encounter, a major uptick in violence against officers. The rise in these violent encounters appears to correlate with the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case, and the police union argues that it’s more than correlation: Police have endured a wave of assaults from criminal suspects in recent weeks, with at least seven violent encounters occurring in a...