America on edge as jury considers verdict for Derek Chauvin, policeman who killed George Floyd
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Black Lives Matter protesters say they want justice for George Floyd s killing in 2020.
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Along the southern edge of Minneapolis, on the corner of 38th and Chicago, between a petrol station and a convenience store, there s a space known as George Floyd Square.
Concrete barricades close off four blocks to traffic, and they are sometimes guarded by activists. Slogans and scrawled messages cover the streets and walls. A giant fist, that emblem of black power, rises from the asphalt.
Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd s death goes to the jury
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday in a city on edge against another round of unrest like the one that erupted last year over the harrowing video of Chauvin with his knee on the Black man s neck.
The jury of six white people and six people who are Black or multiracial began deliberating after nearly a full day of closing arguments in which prosecutors argued that Chauvin squeezed the life out of Floyd last May in a way that even a child knew was wrong.
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President Joe Biden meets with members of congress to discuss his jobs plan in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) April 19, 2021 - 6:23 PM
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, including considering whether President Joe Biden should address the nation and dispatching specially trained community facilitators from the Justice Department, aides and officials told The Associated Press.
Closing arguments began Monday in Chauvinâs trial with a prosecutor telling jurors that the officer âhad to knowâ he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as he cried over and over that he couldnât breathe and finally fell silent. Chauvin faces murder and manslaughter charges.
Fox Nation host says California representative one of several leftists hoping for division, race war .
In Monday s edition of Final Thoughts on Fox Nation, Tomi Lahren called out Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., as a dangerous ideologue who is endorsing criminal behavior while going unpunished both in Congress and on social media.
Lahren said the 82-year-old Los Angeles lawmaker and chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee is proudly, publicly and unapologetically inciting riots, violence, lawlessness and thuggery and her party, the mainstream media, collective Left and big tech henchmen don’t see a thing wrong with it.
She said that Waters is one of many left-wing lawmakers who seek to encourage public unrest while dividing the United States on racial and socioeconomic lines to increase government control upon a fractured population.