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Credit:  Journal File Photo In a message to students on April 26, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Mark Green and Associate Vice-Principal (Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion) Stephanie Simpson announced they have encouraged instructors to provide additional academic accommodation and flexibility for students in light of the recent killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and the final verdict regarding the murder of George Floyd on April 20. “We have encouraged instructors to take into a...

Print this article After Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis, America exhaled. It avoided another round of the last decade’s reciprocal ideological violence, including campus riots, armed protests against federal land use management, neo-Nazi violence, Black Lives Matter riots, and occupations of the U.S. and state capitols. Many officials refuse to restore order because they sympathize with protests or are intimidated by them. Section 1986 of the Ku Klux Kl...

KARE 11 Investigates: New data shows MPD searches Black drivers at 29 times the rate of whites after minor stops A KARE 11 analysis reveals huge racial disparities continue in Minneapolis for minor traffic stops and searches despite reforms promised after George Floyd’s death. Author: Brandon Stahl (KARE11), A.J. Lagoe, Steve Eckert Published: 8:24 PM CDT May 6, 2021 Updated: 10:26 PM CDT May 6, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — New data shows that the major...

Minnesota House passes bill to allow sign and release warrants following Daunte Wright shooting Minnesota House passes bill to allow sign and release warrants following Daunte Wright shooting The Minnesota House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to allow sign and release warrants in Minnesota, following the shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Minnesota House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to allow sign and release warrants in ...

THE ISSUE: “Law enforcement officers across the country have long used administrative or other traffic violations considered to be a low public safety threat as a gateway for searching vehicles and compiling incriminating evidence,” Spotlight PA’s Joseph Darius Jaafari reported recently. But these tactics are under renewed national scrutiny following the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by police at a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11. We believe that redefin...

FOX News contributor Leo Terrell and former prosecutor Mark Eiglarsh discuss Chauvins motion for possible new trial on The Story The service file of a suburban Minneapolispolice officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright includes a commendation for safely resolving an incident involving a suicidal man, as well as a handful of reprimands for driving mishaps. The city of Brooklyn Center late Wednesday released more materials from the service file of Kim Potter, the W...

Minnesota cop who fatally shot Daunte Wright won a commendation for her handling of a suicidal suspect in 2007 but had multiple reprimands for driving accidents, her service file reveals Officials released the service file of Kim Potter, the officer charged in the April shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minneapolis  The file reveals multiple commendations for the 26-year-old Brooklyn Center Police veteran and several minor reprimands  In 2007 Potter received a chiefs commendati...

If rabbis cant talk about public policy, whats the point of Torah?   May 7, 2021 (JTA) — When do you call the rabbi? Sometimes to complain. But usually, a life-cycle event has taken place. A birth, thank God. An impending wedding. An illness. Too often in the last year, a death. Over the past 13 months, tragedy has demanded that rabbis step forward to provide a steady shoulder, open ears and a guiding hand. It’s been deeply painful, but it’s been a privilege. The calamity of COVID repres...

Ryan Raiche and Joe Augustine Updated: May 06, 2021 11:11 PM Created: May 06, 2021 07:32 PM When Shequita Heard visited a friend in Red Wing a few years ago, she never even made it inside the house. She was stopped by city police officers who were responding to a complaint about drug use in the neighborhood. Heard said she felt targeted and harassed, and the next thing she knew, she was on the ground bleeding.  “They just threw me to the ground. My face hit the...

Screenshot: Conan W. Kamau Bell has been working to make racism (and other stuff) funny since long before his Emmy-winning United Shades Of America his the CNN airwaves back in 2016. The stand-up comic turned civic-minded reality host (he still does stand-up) appeared in person at Conan’s Largo temporary headquarters on Thursday to, once more, take his fact-based comic take on race in America on the road, telling host Conan O’Brien that, compared to flying all over the country filming the...