Jerime Mitchell, Cedar Rapids Man Left Paralyzed by Cop Shooting, Gets $8M Payout
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But the beneficiary, Jerime Mitchell, says no amount of money will compensate for his paralysis. It doesn t matter how much money I get, Mitchell told local television station KCRG-TV. It will never replace. I would love to have my arms and legs again.
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Mitchell was left paralyzed after Lucas Jones, then a Cedar Rapids Police officer, shot him during a traffic stop in November 2016. Jones pulled Mitchell s car over, claiming that his license plate light was not working.
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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Oval Office of the White House, on Apr 20, 2021, in Washington. (Photo: AP/Evan Vucci)
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WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (Apr 20) that he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin and that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and put the nation on edge, to be “overwhelming .
Operation Safety Net kicking into high gear ahead of Chauvin verdict
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KTTC) With the jury now deliberating a potential verdict of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, state and city leaders coupled with law enforcement are now in Phase III of Operation Safety Net.
Phase III will feature the largest presence of law enforcement and national guard members since the beginning of the trial.
The Minnesota National Guard alone has 3,000 soldiers and airmen activated in communities to help assist law enforcement keep the peace.
Meanwhile the Minnesota State Patrol is spread so thin the state has asked for help from Ohio and Nebraska.
Feds have ‘range of conversations’ on how to respond after verdict in Derek Chauvin trial
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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 Chauvin’s trial with a prosecutor telling jurors that the officer “had to know” he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as he cried over and over that he couldn’t breathe and finally fell silent. Chauvin faces murder and manslaughter charges.