Jury selection in the trial of Derek Chauvin will stretch into a third week, after attorneys seated just one additional juror Friday.
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Derek Chauvin trial: Judge considers whether to allow mention of Floyd’s 2019 arrest
Chauvin’s attorney has renewed a push to introduce into evidence a previous encounter Floyd had with Minneapolis police where he exhibited similar behavior to the May 2020 incident that left him dead.
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Corporations become unlikely financiers of racial equity
An unexpected group, not known for activism, emerged in 2020 as an unlikely financier of social change: corporations.
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Through My Lens: Heal trauma from Black deaths with community support
This is the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, and soon it will be George Floyd’s one-year anniversary. The traumas American Blacks experienced from the 2020 events continue to ripple through Black houses this year. Young Black girls and women see Taylor in the mirror every day, and the Black men, including myself, see Floyd, […]
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Derek Chauvin’s attorney asks for continuance and change of venue in George Floyd case
The attorney for Derek Chauvin said he was ‘gravely concerned’ the $27 million civil settlement announced last week between the city of Minneapolis and the Floyd family has tainted the jury pool.
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Breonna Taylor’s city is ‘in crisis.’ A new police chief tasked with healing brings her own baggage.
Erika Shields comes to the department from Atlanta, where she stepped down hours after one of her officers killed a Black man in a Wendy’s parking lot.
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‘Gonna be sore’: Louisiana troopers boasted of beating Black man
New court filings show 4 Louisiana State Police troopers joked in a group text about beating Antonio Harris after a high-speed chase last year, even after he ’immediately surrendered.‘
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Trial for ex-cop charged in Floyd’s death moves ahead, for now
A district court judge sayshe wants to hear whether a third-degree murder charge can be added to the counts of second-degree murder and manslaughter against Derek Chauvin.
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Officer’s trial could reopen intersection where Floyd died
Jury selection begins Monday for the murder trial of the Minneapolis officer accused of killing George Floyd.
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As violence surges, some question city’s axing of police unit
Portland, Oregon, last year dissolved a special police unit designed to focus on gun violence during the national reckoning over racial injustice.