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Apr 23 2021
News
How some progressive cities have reformed their police
Police reforms that are under consideration or have been enacted in several progressive cities could become a blueprint for national police policy, as lawmakers refocus their attention on reform in the wake of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction.
Liberal activists coalesced over the summer around the idea of defunding police departments, and several
Washington ExaminerApr 27 2023
News
McCarthy's debt ceiling lesson for House Republicans
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt ceiling maneuver taught his members a valuable lesson about how to get what they want, GOP sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: Republican lawmakers have seen an example of rabble rousers rewarded, and loyalists burned.
McCarthy loyalists felt unheard by the speaker after backing him throughout the grueling speakership election — only to
AxiosApr 25 2021
Analysis
Kamala Harris cements her place in Biden's inner circle during a consequential week
Vice President Kamala Harris was huddled with other White House officials in President Joe Biden's private dining room last week when the room let out a "collective exhale." A Minnesota jury had found Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd.
As the large flat-screen television mounted on the north wall flashed three "guilty" counts, the room was overcome with a "sweeping sense of
CNN DigitalApr 12 2021
News
Protesters Clash With Police After Minnesota Officer Shoots Black Man
Minnesota officials said the police officer who fatally shot a Black man at a traffic stop did so accidentally, and meant to fire a Taser instead.
A 20-year-old Black man died after a police officer shot him during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, sending hundreds of people into the streets where they clashed with police officers into Monday morning.
The protests
New York Times (News)Jan 18 2023
News
Skipped court dates suggest Patriot Front members aren’t taking Idaho rioting charges seriously
The most recent scofflaw is 28-year-old Jared Michael Boyce of Utah, who became the subject of a bench warrant Monday after failing to appear for his court date last month. Another one of the arrested marchers, Derek J. Smith, 25, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota—also has a warrant out for his arrest after failing to show up in court his first hearing in September. The two were part of a large
Daily KosJun 12 2020
Analysis
Will the 2020 Election Hinge on Empathy?
Former Vice President Biden and President Trump were both, in their own unique ways, addressing the biggest story of the past few weeks.
It was Tuesday, June 9, and Joe Biden was speaking—virtually—at the funeral of George Floyd, the black man whose death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin tore the Band-Aid off the racial wound in America that all too many had
The DispatchJun 01 2021
News
Biden to honor forgotten victims of Tulsa race massacre
President Joe Biden will take part in a remembrance of one of the nation’s darkest — and largely forgotten — moments of racial violence when he helps commemorate the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Biden’s visit Tuesday, in which he will grieve for the hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago, comes amid a
Associated Press Fact CheckJan 13 2023
News
People in Business: New CEO for Family Care Health Centers; CSI Leasing promotes
Each week the Post-Dispatch salutes workers who have new roles or new jobs, or who recently have received professional recognition. CSI Leasing Inc. promoted Stephen Gloriod to vice president of sales. Conflux Co-Learning announced its 2023 board of directors: Bob Alvarez, president and COO at Shapiro Metals; Brandon Dempsey, partner at goBRANDgo! and co-founder of Conflux; Doug Kolker,
St. Louis Post-DispatchJun 03 2020
Opinion
Defund the Police Now
Protests are erupting across the U.S. in response to the killing of George Floyd. In a widely watched video, Floyd, a Black man, repeatedly exclaims, “I can’t breathe,” as Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kneels on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, according to a criminal complaint. Chauvin has since been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Guest Writer - LeftJun 02 2020
Analysis
Riots May Be Destructive, but Abusive Policing Is Tyranny
Since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin—assisted by three murderously indifferent cop buddies—protests over abusive and lethal police conduct have spread across the country and turned destructive. Law-and-order types take that as an opening to shift the topic from the long, troubling history of law enforcement in this country to the excesses of the
Reason