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May 4, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal. A photo, posted on social media, shows Brandon Mitchell, who is Black, attending the Aug. 28 event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defen...

Group prepares to showcase plywood murals made after the death of George Floyd article Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement is collecting the plywood murals that were made after the death of George Floyd. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - For the last 11 months, Leesa Kelly has been helping collect unique artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd. Kelly and others have been collecting the plywood boards that were turned into murals throughout the Twin Cities. And while she’s proud of what th...

Mention "George Floyd" six times during todays show; but... fail to mention even once the major news about the trial of the man that a jury convicted of murdering George Floyd. Namely, that one of the jurors was a BLM supporter who: Who denied to the judge before being selected as a juror that he had attended any rallies against police brutality, whereas he had attended one while wearing a BLM hat, and a T-shirt that read "Get Off Our Necks--BLM." [See screencap.] Reportedly told the judge ...

Chauvin Juror Defends Participation In Washington March Brandon Mitchell spoke following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal. A photo,...

Its Time to End Systemic Racism in Policing Once and for All | Opinion Jonathan Greenblatt and Damon Hewitt , CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League; acting president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law On 5/4/21 at 1:32 PM EDT Now that the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has ended with a guilty verdict on all counts for the murder of George Floyd, many are breathing a sigh of relief. Some are...

Mutual Aid Efforts Are Working to Fill the Gaps of Biden’s COVID Response Volunteer Miriam Lopez Ambrosio, a dancer from Oaxaca, Mexico, assists a person with their second vaccination appointment on their phone at a clinic targeting Central American Indigenous residents on April 10, 2021, in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama / Getty Images We’ll take what we can get. This seems to be the general sentiment around the Biden administration’s response to COVID. We didn’t get $...

Learn to use your privilege to help those who lack it | Opinion Posted May 04, 2021 By Sara L. Roche Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was killed last month in Minnesota because a police officer apparently mistook a gun for a Taser. It is impossible to ignore the disparities between society’s treatment of Black Americans and white Americans. But, we need to stop hiding behind the message that it’s just a few bad apples. These apples are everywhere. We need to look past the individual...

Woman charged with breaking glass-paneled door during protest at Schenectady police station last month | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 GAZETTE COVERAGE She is accused of breaking the glass panel during the protest April 13. “On that date, at approximately 11 p.m. several protesters entered the front vestibule at 531 Liberty Street and began kicking the glass doors causing one to break,” police said in a release. Laing was arraigned and released to return to court later, police said. Th...

President Bidens promises on policing reform: What the administration has accomplished Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT The trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last month raised civil rights activists hopes of a turning point in accountability for law enforcement. But as Chauvin was being tried, police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, while police in Chicago shot and killed 13-y...