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At the end of the motion hearing yesterday morning, defense counsel Eric Nelson expressed his grave concern over the effect of the city's world-beating $27 million wrongful death settlement in the civil litigation resulting from the death of George Floyd. Nelson cited prejudicial comments made by Mayor Frey and the members of the city clowncil in support of the settlement. With seven jurors selected and released until the beginning of
By Tim Arango and Katie Benner Feb. 23, 2021 A new federal grand jury has been empaneled in Minneapolis and the Justice Department has called new witnesses as part of its investigation of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who will go on trial in state court next month on a murder charge for the death of George Floyd, according to two people with direct knowledge of the investigation. The fresh slate of witnesses subpoenaed to give testimony about Mr. Chauvin is an early sign that the federal investigation into the death of Mr. Floyd, which began last year and then languished, is being ...
Black Lives Matter: The killing of George Floyd tore Minneapolis apart. Now comes the trial In a country whose criminal justice system rarely holds police officers accountable for killing on the job — not in Ferguson, Missouri, not in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, not in the case of Eric Garner in New York — the trial of officer Derek Chauvin is seen as a test of whether anything has changed New York Times February 11, 2021 / 02:08 PM IST A sign counts down the days until the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George F...
Derek Chauvin was ready to plead guilty to third-degree murder over the death of George Floyd last spring. Then Bill Barr, U.S. attorney general at the time, reportedly put the kibosh on the deal at the last second because the situation was developing far too quickly.
Planning Trends to Watch in 2021 The nation is now tasked with the challenge of changing course in the middle of multiple, global crises. The necessity of finding a way to overcome the failures of the past and lay the groundwork for a new kind of future has never been more clear. January 31, 2021, 11am PST | James Brasuell | AlexiRosenfeld The nation and world are still mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, and the news to start 2021 has been marked by mass death, insurrection, and fear that there's more to come. With multiple vaccines on the market, this should have been a hopeful time. Inste...