Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been convinced of aiding and abetting manslaughter, the Writers Guild of America launched a strike for the first time in 15 years and an interstate highway in Illinois reopened today after a windstorm led to crashes that killed at least six people yesterday. Owen Larson has today’s News in :90.
Putin’s demand to pay for gas in rubles would violate western sanctions imposed over the war, a Minneapolis Police Department investigation found patterns of race discrimination, and a TommieMedia columnist takes first place in contest. Ella Shuherk has today’s News in :90.
Hundreds of people joined in song and prayer Thursday at the funeral service for Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search warrant.
The Minneapolis mayor on Friday imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants after Amir Locke was killed this week as a SWAT team executed a search warrant.
St. Thomas community members voted in the municipal election Tuesday, Jacob Frey is leading the Minneapolis mayoral race, and voters decided against replacing the Minneapolis police department. Leila Weah has today’s News in :90.
A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman was sentenced to 57 months, COVID-19 infections and deaths surged to all-time highs in Ukraine, and U.S. regulators signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Lia Piazza has today’s News in :90.
A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air.
The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday, as he announced initial steps in what he said would be transformational reforms to the agency in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
A majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they support disbanding the city’s police department, an aggressive stance that comes just as the state has launched a civil rights investigation after George Floyd’s death.
Prosecutors filed a tougher charge Wednesday against the police officer at the center of the George Floyd case and charged three other officers, delivering a victory to protesters galvanized by a death that roused racial tensions and unleashed coast-to-coast unrest.
The state of Minnesota on Tuesday launched a civil rights investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in hopes of forcing widespread changes following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for minutes, even after he stopped moving.
