CHICAGO Adam Toledo’s mother stood in front of a makeshift memorial in an alley where her 13-year-old son was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer. Elizabeth Toledo, 44, wore dark glasses and didn’t speak to the half-dozen onlookers. But Toledo, who lives a few blocks away in the neighborhood of La Villita, Little Village, has said through her attorney that she feels judged by the community since her son’s death last month. So she surveyed the candles, bouquets and signs calling for justice on Saturday, cried quietly, and left. Elizabeth Toledo, far right, surveys a memorial Saturday where her 1`3-year-old son was fatally shot by Chicago police.
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Surge of migrant families and youths overwhelms Border Patrol in Texas Families are sheltered at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas, after being released from immigration. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times) March 16, 2021 5:02 PM PT MISSION, Texas The priest arrived to bless about 90 Central American families Tuesday at an old parish hall that had been converted into a shelter to absorb the rising number of migrants and unaccompanied children streaming into Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. The Rev. Roy Snipes, a native Texan who preaches in a straw cowboy hat, stood in front of a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He prayed in Spanish over the families, sprinkling them with holy water drawn from the Rio Grande, the same river many had crossed just days before.
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The former police officer seen kneeling for about nine minutes on George Floyd’s neck before he died in spring is due to go on trial, and Minneapolis is on edge, protesting, barricading and boarding up. Several hundred people supporting the conviction of former Officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges gathered across the Mississippi River on Saturday in front of the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, chanting, “Prosecute the police!” More protests were planned Sunday and Monday outside the courthouse where the case will be heard in downtown Minneapolis, now lined with protective concrete barriers and razor wire. The criminal prosecution of Chauvin, due to be broadcast live on Court TV, is likely to be among the most closely watched in U.S. history.
City officials have prepared for Derek Chauvin's trial with stepped-up security and community outreach intended to prevent a repeat of last year's subsequent unrest.
Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam VP, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world: When day comes we ask ourselves Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, We braved the belly of the beast; We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace. And the norms and notions of what just is Isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it; A nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time Where a skinny black girl descended from slaves