Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright was charged with second-degree manslaughter, Wednesday April 14th. According to a statement from the office of Washington County Attorney, Pete Orput, Potter was taken into custody by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Wednesday. A …
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Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis Police officer who knelt on George Floyd‘s neck before his death, has been the subject of numerous police-conduct complaints, NBC News reports. Chauvin joined the Minneapolis Police Academy in 2001 and has been named in at least 12 complaints, which cover use-of-force incidents as well as …
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A steady flood of pings and vibrations starts erupting on my phone, and soon I am looking at family photographs of Breonna Taylor. The first shows her sitting in the car, wearing a white dress, well-done hair, and evident confidence. “Wake Pray Slay” reads the back of her sweatshirt in …
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Stephon Clark lived and died in Sacramento.When the 22-year-old father of two was shot and killed by local cops after a foot chase in the spring of 2018, it provoked the largest national uproar over a police killing of an unarmed black man since the groundswell of protests that began …
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