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UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 9:43 am CT Replies(9) A grand jury has indicted former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chavuin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao on federal civil rights charges. (Minnesota Department of Corrections) MINNEAPOLIS — A federal grand jury Friday indicted former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chauvin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao on civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin was also indicted in a separate Sept. 4, 2017 inc...

Grondahl: Albany city leaders talk frankly about race Sheehan, Ellis, others say communitys reckoning is painful, ongoing and necessary FacebookTwitterEmail 5of6 Albany Common Council Member Kelly Kimbrough  (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 6of6 ALBANY – Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s heartbreaking moment of acknowledging white supremacy occurred when her son, who is adopted and Black, came home from preschool and repeated what a white child told him, “I...

Commendations, reprimands for officer in Wright death Discipline included a verbal reprimand in 2007 for Kim Potter’s work as part of a team focusing on violent robberies in part of the city The service file of a suburban Minneapolis police 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 Wednesda...

By Jaymes Langrehr May 7, 2021 11:45 AM MADISON, Wis. — Madison police say the suspect in a domestic violence incident who ran from officers and walked into traffic while pointing a gun at himself Thursday morning wanted to be shot by police. In an update Friday morning, the Madison Police Department says the man, whose name has not been released, was involved in a domestic incident on the city’s north side Thursday morning in which he allegedly choked the victim and held a kn...

Black police shooting victim Andrew Brown Jr.s family will only be shown 20 minutes from two hours of bodycam footage - and they face waiting another nine days to see it Judge Jeffery Foster issued a written order Thursday allowing Browns immediate family and attorney to view limited footage from five videos    Deputies faces will be blurred in the footage to prevent identification   Foster ruled last Tuesday that parts of the footage would be disclosed to the family within 10 days But the...

The other three former officers face a state trial in August, and they are free on bond. They were allowed to remain free after Fridays federal court appearance. Floyd, 46, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck, even as Floyd, who was handcuffed, repeatedly said he couldnt breathe. Kueng and Lane also helped restrain Floyd — state prosecutors have said Kueng knelt on Floyds back and Lane held down Floyds legs. State prosecutors say Thao held back...

Email Address Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial—its obscenity and thin catharsis—would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from ...

SHARE Learn to Live CEO Dale Cook. Photo by John Wallace The past year has been one of untold upheaval to our collective psyches. The rituals of quotidian American life were virtually upended within a few weeks during the month of March 2020. Retail and restaurant business flickered on and off like light bulbs in the attic; kids as young as five years old were forced into remote learning with overburdened parents hovering in the background juggling a new work environment with home schoolin...

Last week a video showing a high-school teachers remarks on police killings was posted online. At one point she said George Floyd shouldve obeyed the police and told her class to always do so. The teacher was placed on administrative leave within days of the video being posted. A high-school teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been placed on administrative leave over remarks she made during a class discussion on police killings, KUAC reported. A video of the discussion — which happened during a...

Dont show me this message again✕ A woman raises her hands as she prays during the funeral of Daunte Wright (AFP via Getty Images) I t gets going about 20 minutes into the service to honour Daunte Wright – the young man’s face leaping from a screen on the stage and the bright stabs of an organ’s swirl filling the church hall. People are still making their way in, and finding a seat. “Oh freedom. Oh freedom. Oh freedom over me. “And before I be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave...