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By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media Apr 19, 2021 Four police officers are recovering after a protest turned into an unlawful assembly over the weekend. Demonstrators gathered on Saturday evening at the Capitol to protest the recent police killings in Minnesota and Illinois that have been sweeping national headlines. During their march, the Sac Police Department says four officers were sent to the hospital after being sprayed with an unknown irritant. They have since been released, and no arrests ...

Protesters have been rioting and looting since former veteran Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter accidentally used her handgun to fatally shoot Daunte Wright, a black man, instead of using her taser. If Wright had been white, there likely would have been little to no protesting or publicity. Potter would have been disciplined and received a typical sentence for a fatal accident like that.  But because the victim was black, it’s been declared police racism and Potter is likely to get a...

"Once again, when a Black person is killed, in this case a Black child, the police quickly shape a narrative to justify the death," said Crump in a statement issued on Twitter. "The world was told that Anthony shot an officer and thats why police fatally shot him. Then, the facts revealed the only shots fired were by law enforcement and the injured police officer may have been struck by his own bullet or another officers bullet." The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released two different ...

Not Going Home: Man Blocked By BLM, Arrested Going Home Stillwater, MN -- Black Lives Matter agitators spilled into the suburbs of Stillwater Saturday to protest the shooting of Duante Wright. Streets were blocked throughout several areas but this individual was not having any of it. The man who comes out of his truck claims he lives on the street and tells the mob to part so he can drive through. The crowd instead surrounds him, one protester gets in his face, at which poi...

WMNF loading... As specter of HB1 looms, St. Pete protestors return to streets demanding justice for Duante Wright Share this: With the specter of Florida’s HB1 “anti-riot” bill looming, protestors in St. Pete returned to the streets Friday to demand justice for Duante Wright, the 20-year-old Black man killed by police in a Minneapolis Suburb, and others. Protestors didn’t know if the bill’s new restrictions on protesting would go into effect as they marched or what it could mean for...

Guest columnist David Hoose: It’s time for unarmed traffic enforcement This photo provided by Ben Crump Law, PLLC. shows Daunte Wright and his son, Daunte Jr., at his first birthday party. Wright, 20, was killed during a traffic stop by a white suburban Minneapolis police officer on Sunday, April 11. Ben Crump Law, PLLC. via AP Published: 4/19/2021 1:13:33 PM The Northampton Policing Review Commission’s recently released report included the recommendation that Northampton transition to ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Maxine Waters Incited Riots, Calls for Her Expulsion From Congress On 4/19/21 at 10:27 AM EDT Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for Representative Maxine Waters expulsion from Congress after the congresswoman traveled to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to join crowds protesting the police shooting of Duante Wright. Greene accused the Democrat of inciting riots in Minnesota, while pointing out that Waters represents Californias 43rd congressional district. ...

Travon Free on His Oscar-Nominated Film and Americas Violence The bisexual filmmaker behind To watch the Oscar-nominated short film Two Distant Strangers on Netflix by Emmy-winning, bisexual writer and comedian Travon Free, is to come away feeling both impressed and defeated. The film is brilliantly made, which is the impressive part, yet it crystalizes what a Black man feels like each time he steps out the door, which is the disheartening part. Without conflating its message, the film could ...

Minnesota police have promised not to detain and rough up reporters covering protests over the police shooting of Duante Wright, after reporters were detained, pepper-sprayed, and forced to lie face-down on Friday. Police clashed with protesters after an officer shot and killed a man on April 11, in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: AFP / Kerem Yuce The Minnesota State Patrol also agreed to stop photographing journalists and their credentials, and said it would no longer limit th...

© Getty Images The Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) has vowed to no longer arrest, threaten or use physical force against reporters covering the Duante Wright protests in Brooklyn Center after a number of journalists said they were harassed by law enforcement last week amid the demonstrations.  The law enforcement agency said in a statement this weekend that officers are “prohibited from arresting, threatening to arrest, or threatening/using physical force against someone we know or have reaso...