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A woman was charged Thursday in connection to a stabbing earlier this week.

Yves here. I don’t pretend to have any good answers for what to do about police brutality, particularly towards people of color. During the Presidential campaign, Biden backed even more police spending, no doubt to clam the nerves of the Dem’s professional-managerial class base. More unequal societies are lower trust societies, so the K-shaped recovery is only going to increase the perception of risk among the well off. Two things to keep in mind. First is that the most troubling form of po...

The Supreme Court Is Also to Blame for Daunte Wright’s Death Naisha Wright, Daunte Wrights aunt, shows pictures of a Glock 17 and a Taser X26P during a press conference at New Salem Missionary Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 15, 2021. Kerem Yucel / AFP via Getty Images By When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling. As a result, Wri...

Daunte Wright's aunt revealed at a press conference that George Floyd and Daunte have ties

A Minnesota police officer resigned from her position Tuesday after fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.

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...