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With former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin receiving his federal prison sentence this week, the spotlight is on the three fellow ex-cops who are still working their way through a complicated web of legal proceedings related to the killing of George Floyd.
One lawyer from the group challenged the election in Wisconsin, claiming that there were "integrity issues."
George Floyd's daughter Gianna gives her impact statement at the sentencing trial of Derek Chauvin.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune/Getty Images For two weeks, Minneapolis protesters have demanded answers following the police killing of Winston Boogie Smith, a 32-year-old Black man, by law enforcement. And on Sunday, one of those protesters was killed in the city’s Uptown area when a man drove his SUV into a crowd of demonstrators; at least two others were injured. The protester who was killed was identified by the Star Tribune as Deona Knajdek, a 31-year-old mother of two. The Star Tribune reports that in the days just before her death, Knajdek posted Facebook messages in support of...
Dion Johnson's shooting by Department of Public Safety officer George Cervantes occurred on the same day that George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. While Chauvin was recently found guilty of murder in that case, in September, Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel cleared Cervantes of criminal charges in the Dion Johnson shooting. Back in May 2020, Cervantes had found Johnson passed out in his Toyota Prius in a freeway gore area with a pistol in the car. After he secured the pistol, he claims, the 28-year-old Black man woke up, fought him during an attempted ...