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Giant Food Stores recalls select packages of ground turkey York Daily Record Giant Food Stores is recalling select packages of ground turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a public health advisory that Nature’s Promise 94% lean, 6% fat ground turkey may have caused Salmonella Hadar illness. The affected ground turkey will have use by/freeze by/sell by dates of Jan. 1, 2021; Jan. 3, 2021; Jan. 4, 2021; Jan. 8, 2021 and Jan. 10, 2021 on the front of the package. These...

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (MINNESOTA) — The officer who shot and killed Duante Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop announced her resignation Tuesday.  Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon has also resigned. The officer accused of killing Wright has been identified as Kim Potter, who served in the Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police department for 26 years.  Her resignation was effective immediately. Gannon came under fire following Monday’s press conference whe...

Kim Potter, former Minnesota police officer, will be charged with manslaughter in death of Duante Wright Updated 12:42 PM; Today 12:41 PM This May 31, 2007 photo shows Officer Kim Potter, part of the Brooklyn Center Police negotiation team in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in the Minneapolis suburb and the city’s chief of police have resigned. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott says he hopes the m...

Officer Kim Potter, who resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, will face charges of second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright, a prosecutor on the case said.

Bachelor Star Comes out as Gay by Nathalie Graham • Apr 14, 2021 at 8:33 am Rest in hell. Mario Tama/Getty Images We gotta keep getting tested for the bug: Ever since vaccines rolled into the discourse around November 2020, COVID-19 testing declined in Washington. But testing is still important, especially now when cases are ticking up and new variants are running rampant. How are public health officials supposed to know anything about disease activi...

Biden administration vows economic and justice reforms for Black Americans

Last August, Jacob Blake’s 29 year old son, also called Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in front of his children and left paralysed by a police officer in Kenosha as he resisted arrest and was in possession of a folding pocket-knife. It led to massive protests in which two people were killed. That officer, Rusten Sheskey, did not face any charges or disciplinary action and has just gone back on duty. We asked for Jacob Blake Snr’s thoughts on the protests over Duante Wright’s killing in...

In the Derek Chauvin trial lawyers are trying to argue that drugs and a heart condition contributed to George Floyd’s death, and not the more than nine minutes that the former police officer knelt on his neck. But this whole trial has been overshadowed by the rising tensions over the death of a young Black man, Duante Wright, shot dead by police officer Kim Potter. She now faces a charge of second degree manslaughter. No doubt the authorities will be hoping that will be enough to calm the pro...

BBC News Published image captionKim Potter is being held at Hennepin County Jail A white police officer who shot dead a black motorist in Minnesota has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors say. Officer Kim Potter has been arrested and will be held in custody. Mrs Potter says she shot Daunte Wright accidentally, having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of her Taser. Responding to the charges, the Wright familys lawyer Ben Crump said the killing was an "intentional, deliberate...