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43 Rich Eisen’s voice was laced with incredulity as he tried to process what was happening, and who could blame him? Sitting just to his right in the guest chair at Eisen’s television studio in Los Angeles was Marc Lore, a 5-foot-10(ish), 48-year-old Italian-American math whiz who was looking Eisen straight in the eye and telling him he wanted to race the great Jerry Rice in the 40-yard dash. “I told him, Marc, you want no piece of that ma...

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 knife to the victim’s face. Officers later found his c...

Print this article The top Maryland district court judge has banned masks and any paraphernalia depicting the "Thin Blue Line," a symbol of support for police, in state courthouses. Chief Justice John Morrissey on Thursday wrote in an email announcing the ban that the symbol was creating "an issue of perceived bias" in the justice system. The order applies to anyone working in the states 34 federal district courts and to visitors. "The Judiciary must maintain itself as an unbiased and independ...

David Johns, Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition | 5/7/2021, 6 a.m. Among the policies that the Department of Justice seeks is encouraging other officers to step in when aggressive and excessive force is used. Courtesy Photo/NNPA Last year, we witnessed another crushing blow in the fight to end police violence against Black people. Only one of the three officers involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor was charged in the case. However, they were not char...

Whats at stake as the Minnesota Legislature enters its final week Tax hikes and the governors emergency powers are two of several issues on the table as the Legislature enters the final run-up to its May 17 deadline. 1:00 pm, May 7, 2021 × The Minnesota Capitol building with statue of Sen. Knute Nelson. ST. PAUL — Wealthy Minnesotans could see their income taxes hiked and working families and businesses could see a tax break. The states peacetime emergency could come to...

UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 11:54 am CT Reply Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks during a press conference about public safety as the Derek Chauvin murder trial goes to jury deliberations on April 19, 2021 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) May 7, 2021 Gov. Tim Walz promised more police reform after Daunte Wright was killed, but hell have to beg and barter to get it through a divided Legislature. Subscribe In an interview on Reformer Radio, which debuts Friday, Walz said he w...

Branden Wolfe had hoped for a lighter sentence. Federal authorities accused him of conspiracy to commit arson in the burning of a police building in the days following the death of George Floyd. Authorities alleged he “pushed a barrel into a fire located in the entrance of the third precinct headquarters”, fuelling the fire. A judge gave him a prison sentence of 41 months for the crime. But Wolfe, 23, told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview he does not feel guilty of the charge. Wolfe sai...

Whats at stake as the Minnesota Legislature enters its final week Tax hikes and the governors emergency powers are two of several issues on the table as the Legislature enters the final run-up to its May 17 deadline. 1:00 pm, May 7, 2021 × The Minnesota Capitol building with statue of Sen. Knute Nelson. ST. PAUL — Wealthy Minnesotans could see their income taxes hiked and working families and businesses could see a tax break. The states peacetime emergency could come to...

May 7, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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 Wednesday released more materials from the service file of Kim Potter, the white officer who shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop April 11. The city...

Thu May 6, 2021 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. $27 million in the George Floyd case, $12 million in the Breonna Taylor case, and $1.5 million in the Michael Brown case. Ben Crump’s business is smearing cops and intimidating cities into offering huge settlements in the hopes of avoiding even more expensive BLM race riots. Crump, dubbed a “civil rig...