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Several activists and lawyers spoke at an emotional news conference Thursday to continue raising questions about the lack of transparency in the case, a week after officials said Smith fired from his car as a task force led by the U.S. Marshals Service tried to arrest him on a warrant from Ramsey County on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a gun.

This is the state of policing in America a year after George Floyd was killed In the year that has passed since the nation was confronted with harrowing video showing a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd, police and politicians across the country have been scrutinizing the failures in police leadership, culture and training that Floyd’s murder exposed as they seek to redefine policing in America. Police leaders in major cities are incorporating lessons learned from the Floyd case...

Jim Clyburn Undercuts the Democratic Police Reform Bill In the middle of negotiations over eliminating qualified immunity for police officers, Clyburn says it’s not needed for the overall bill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented the George Floyd family, is joined by family members of victims of racial injustice following a meeting with Sen. Tim Scott at the Capitol in Washington, April 29, 2021. Nearly a year has passed since the May 25, 2020, kil...

In late March, 13-year-old Adam Toledo was fatally shot by Chicago police officers at the end of a foot chase. Police said body camera footage shows Toledo holding a gun in his right hand, but it vanishes from sight as he turns toward the officer and begins to raise his hands as he's shot. A gun was later found behind a fence a few feet from where Toledo was killed.

Email Address Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial—its obscenity and thin catharsis—would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from ...

Image credit: Meta Stange/WDET Public safety veteran Dr. Cedric Alexander says thorough police reform is critical to American public safety. Six years ago, President Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force wrote a report detailing the necessary components of police reform. Since then, preventive methods like body cameras have been implemented to hold officers accountable. However, even with these changes, last summer’s protests made it clear there is still a need for wide-spread refo...

MINNEAPOLIS – The guilty verdict returned by jurors Tuesday in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin was a reason for joy among many, especially in the Black community. But it was also a vivid demonstration of what the criminal justice system could be if prosecutors went after all "bad cops" with the same gusto, legal observers said. During the 42-day trial, jurors heard from 45 witnesses and listened to hours of technical testimony about whether Chauvin, who pinned Georg...

Deputy Chief Kevin Norris has been appointed Chief of Police beginning April 17.  Norris has worked in the Ardmore Police Department for 24 years. His first law enforcement job was as a reserve officer. Norris went through the reserve academy and was hired by the city of the Marietta as a reserve officer.  Norris wanted to work in law enforcement full-time and was able to get a reserve officer position at the Ardmore Police Department. Six months later, full-time positions opened up, and Nor...

Louisville police officers stand guard on Sept. 26, as demonstrators march during a peaceful protest after a grand jury handed down an indictment on Sept. 23 for one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters) ,” by Tobias Winright. After the police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, the public response was swift and global. And the subsequent calls to defund the police have exposed a contradic...

What’s behind the split in Hamden’s Democratic Party? FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest 2of2Hamden Democratic Town Chairman Sean GracePhoto: Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media It’s sure to be an interesting election year, given a split among Hamden Democrats that, according to politicos, partially mirrors the national divide between the “moderate” and “progressive” wings of the party and also stems from local issues and ...