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Cop Derek Chauvin is taken to maximum security prison and placed on suicide watch after being found guilty on ALL three charges of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd as Joe Biden calls the killing a stain on the nation s soul
The veteran cop was emotionless as Judge Peter Cahill read the jury s decision, which centred around nine minutes and 29 seconds of Chauvin kneeling on the unarmed black man s neck in May last year
Cheers rose from crowds gathered outside the courthouse and down at the intersection of 38th and Chicago, now known as George Floyd Square, where the fatal arrest had taken place
Maxine Waters says my words don t matter after Derek Chauvin judge warned her remarks could be grounds for an appeal as she defends calling for confrontation if no conviction
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Saturday travelled to Minneapolis and told protesters to get more confrontational if Derek Chauvin is acquitted
Republicans were enraged by her rousing the crowd on the eve of the jury retiring to consider their verdict
Judge Peter Cahill said it was abhorrent that politicians weighed in in the midst of a trial but said her opinion really doesn t mean much
Waters on Monday insisted she was right to air her views and claimed the judge said my words don t matter
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Members of the National Guard leave the Capitol perimeter the they had been guarding, Friday, April 2, after a car crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON, DC Three months after more than 25,000 National Guard troops poured into the nation s capital to secure President Joe Biden s inauguration, Defense Department and Guard officials are losing patience and are denying some of the city s recurring requests for troops to protect D.C.
According to defense officials, the Army on Monday approved only about a quarter of the Guard troops requested by city officials to provide security in case of unrest after the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. The D.C. National Guard confirmed that acting Army Secretary John Whitley has approved the deployment of 250 troops, but officials said the city s initial request was for as many as 1,000.