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The budding comedian was outraged by the deaths of Black men at the hands of police. He wondered out loud if he would someday shoot it out rather than surrender.
The Crow Wing County prosecutor said earlier this week he will not press charges against U.S. Marshals officers involved in Smith's death in Uptown this summer.
The brother of Winston Smith, the man shot and killed in a Minneapolis parking ramp by two officers acting as part of a federal task force, says officers should have used a different approach to take Smith into custody.
Emmett Till's family on his 80th birthday: 'The past isn't the past until justice is served' Boy's relatives joined families of those killed by law enforcement in Minn. July 25, 2021 — 8:40pm Text size Copy shortlink: On what would have been Emmett Till's 80th birthday, about 50 people gathered in St. Paul on Sunday to celebrate his legacy and call for justice 66 years after he was lynched. Many of them were family members of Black men killed by police who also want to see accountability for their own loved ones. The group, incl...
By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 13, 2021 Demonstrations have taken place in Minneapolis since June 3 when news quickly spread throughout the city saying yet another Black man was gunned down by law-enforcement. On June 3-4 numerous businesses were damaged, and property taken, when crowds gathered during a police examination of the area where the shooting occurred. Nine people were arrested in the immediate hours after the killing. Tensions had already escalated earlier on June 3 when the city removed a barrier erected around what has become known as “George Floyd Square”, marking where the horre...