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Article content A murderer has been found guilty of murder. It sounds like an obvious statement. But for far too long, this has not been the case in the United States where racial injustice and unchecked police violence continue to run rampant. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Howell: Justice is served in Minneapolis Back to video A National Public Radio (NPR) investigation published this year found that since 2015, 135 unarmed black men and women ...

Police reform added to mix for end-of-session state budget negotiations By Minnesota News Network|2021-04-30T06:54:11-05:00April 30th, 2021| A public safety hearing–with no public testimony–is now on the state Senate Calendar for next Monday (9am). Local religious leaders are among those who have been calling for more police accountability measures… “This is really for all Minnesotans across the state, who just like many of the clergy are going to be gathering are really really ready an...

Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Coronavirus The United States is still seeing an increase in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, especially among younger people who havent gotten a vaccine. However, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky did point out death rates are going down. Thats cold comfort considering more than 562,000 people in the US have now died of the virus. China is in a tigh...

Police and law enforcement agencies have a higher approval rating than President Joe Biden. According to a Thursday NBC survey, Biden is less popular than police and other law enforcement agencies by 8 percent. The poll shows Biden has a 50 percent approval rating while police and law enforcement agencies have a 58 percent approval rating. What’s more popular than Joe Biden and baseball? The police. https://t.co/J10Yo3xqYjpic.twitter.com/EXeQXrqnKI The poll comes after the President addresse...

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 20:01 UTC Investigators survey the vehicle that struck and killed New York City Police Department Officer Anastasios Tsakos A suspected drunk driver who streamed herself on Facebook Live saying f**k the police while downing shots hours before she killed a veteran cop in a hit-and-run in New York City boasted about carrying a knife everywhere I go, it has been revealed. Jessica Beauvais, 32, posted a 1 hour and 51 minute livestream on her Facebook page Monday evening as part of ...

As police used teargas and flashbangs on protesters outside the Brooklyn Center police department, young children listened, terrified, from their homes directly across the street. Among them were two eleven-year-old girls with autism, which makes them intensely sensitive to loud noises, their older sister, Jamiya Crayton, said. “It was so bad I had to go out there and ask [law enforcement] if they could stop doing that, because my kids were...

Dont show me this message again✕ People sit at a bus stop at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 21, 2021, a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyds murder. - The conviction of white officer Derek Chauvin for George Floyds murder raised hopes on April 21 in the Black community of a historic turning point in US justice, but the police killing of another African American cast a shadow over prospects for change. ((Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP...

Nate Silvester, Cop Who Mocked LeBron James, Previously Cleared in Motel Shooting Death On 4/30/21 at 10:53 AM EDT The Idaho deputy who was publicly reprimanded by his employer following a viral TikTok video mocking LeBron James appears to have been previously cleared in a 2009 police shooting during his former tenure at a police department. Nate Silvester, a deputy with the Bellevue Marshals Office, amassed millions of views this week after posting a TikTok video deriding James following the N...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:42 UTC In what just might be the most misguided attempt at utopian living ever conceived, progressive Democrats continue to demand the defunding and disbanding of police forces in cities around the country. Yet, like a doctor that has made the wrong diagnosis on a patient, such a radical idea will not bring peace and security to Americas ailing neighborhoods. In fact, it will make them virtually unlivable. The United States desperately needs a national debate on the root cau...

Doctoral students at the University of Minnesota Medical School are raising awareness about the use of tear gas Tear gas is oftentimes a common sight at protests or riots because law enforcement can use it to help disperse crowds, but its raising concerns about the dangers that can come with it. Posted: Apr 30, 2021 11:06 AM Posted By: Madelyne Watkins ROCHESTER, Minn. - The deaths of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and others at the hands of police have sparked civil unrest nationwide. Now, att...