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Daunte Wright, George Floyd, and a renewed focus on police brutality On Sunday afternoon, Kim Potter, a police officer in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, shot and killed Daunte Wright, a twenty-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop. Minneapolis was already grappling with the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin, the cop charged with murdering George Floyd in the city last summer; on Sunday night, protesters gathered at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and officers used tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets to disperse them. Yesterday, police leaders convened a press conferen...

The Health 202: AstraZeneca's vaccine is still considered safe to take Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck The available science still indicates the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is safe for people to take, even as regulators investigate a potential red flag. That’s the nuance vaccine experts — frustrated by the recent barrage of negative headlines — want the American public to understand. “I feel like in general the press has not been doing a good job,”  former Food and Drug Administration scientist Luciana Borio told me. The coverage of Astr...

“Right now, we are going to be looking at the Confederate statues, but in terms of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, and things of that nature, I think those are conversations we do need to have here in the city of Charlottesville." By Taylor Cairns, CBS19, March 22, 2016 After Bellamy refused to step down from his position on city council, I conducted a recall petition drive to have him removed from office. Nearly six hundred people signed a legally binding petition to have Bellamy removed from his position. (Full disclosure: One of the multitudes of triggered Leftists harassing me and my sig...

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