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By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media Apr 19, 2021 Four police officers are recovering after a protest turned into an unlawful assembly over the weekend. Demonstrators gathered on Saturday evening at the Capitol to protest the recent police killings in Minnesota and Illinois that have been sweeping national headlines. During their march, the Sac Police Department says four officers were sent to the hospital after being sprayed with an unknown irritant. They have since been released, and no arrests have been reported. Civil unrest has increased following the deaths of Duante Wright and Adam Toledo...

Protesters have been rioting and looting since former veteran Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter accidentally used her handgun to fatally shoot Daunte Wright, a black man, instead of using her taser. If Wright had been white, there likely would have been little to no protesting or publicity. Potter would have been disciplined and received a typical sentence for a fatal accident like that.  But because the victim was black, it’s been declared police racism and Potter is likely to get a long prison sentence. Afraid of saying otherwise, officials will chime in denouncing it as racism, ...

"Once again, when a Black person is killed, in this case a Black child, the police quickly shape a narrative to justify the death," said Crump in a statement issued on Twitter. "The world was told that Anthony shot an officer and that's why police fatally shot him. Then, the facts revealed the only shots fired were by law enforcement and the injured police officer may have been struck by his own bullet or another officer's bullet." The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released two different versions of the killing, saying, incorrectly, in a press conference hours after the confrontation ...

Not Going Home: Man Blocked By BLM, Arrested Going Home Stillwater, MN -- Black Lives Matter agitators spilled into the suburbs of Stillwater Saturday to protest the shooting of Duante Wright. Streets were blocked throughout several areas but this individual was not having any of it. The man who comes out of his truck claims he lives on the street and tells the mob to part so he can drive through. The crowd instead surrounds him, one protester gets in his face, at which point the man is shoved. In a massive explosion of irony, the very police BLM are protesting is asked b...

WMNF loading... As specter of HB1 looms, St. Pete protestors return to streets demanding justice for Duante Wright Share this: With the specter of Florida’s HB1 “anti-riot” bill looming, protestors in St. Pete returned to the streets Friday to demand justice for Duante Wright, the 20-year-old Black man killed by police in a Minneapolis Suburb, and others. Protestors didn’t know if the bill’s new restrictions on protesting would go into effect as they marched or what it could mean for them. LISTEN: The protest was peaceful. But it wasn’t silent. “Show me what democracy looks li...