• 5 things to know about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' VP pick

    5 things to know about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' VP pick

    Aug 06, 2024 03:16 PM EST

    ... agency heads. Republicans also remain critical of Walz over what they see as his slow response to sometimes violent unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Things got easier for Walz in his second term, after he defeated Republican Scott Jensen, a ...

  • Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Aug 06, 2024 01:14 PM EST

    ... its authority and was ill-prepared to respond. Republicans still criticize Walz for his response to the sometimes violent unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, which included the torching of a police station. During a May fundraiser in St. Paul, Trump ...

  • WATCH: Trump speaks at National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago

    WATCH: Trump speaks at National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago

    Jul 31, 2024 03:18 PM EST

    He compared the 2021 insurrection to the protests in Minneapolis and other cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and to more recent protests at the Capitol last week by demonstrators opposed to the war in Gaza. Trump falsely claiming that no one was arrested ...

  • WATCH: Trump speaks at rally in Minnesota with Vance in effort to swing blue-leaning state

    WATCH: Trump speaks at rally in Minnesota with Vance in effort to swing blue-leaning state

    Jul 27, 2024 06:55 PM EST

    ... borders is completely and totally disqualifying for her to be president.” Trump called out Harris for a 2020 post she made after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police. The post had encouraged people to help protesters by donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which ...

  • Bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal prisons signed into law

    Bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal prisons signed into law

    Jul 25, 2024 06:20 PM EST

    ... a fellow prisoner last November at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. The assailant said he targeted Chauvin because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd, federal prosecutors said. Disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed in July 2023 at a federal penitentiary in Florida, and “Unabomber” Ted ...

  • More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

    More young, Black Americans taking their lives amid lack of resources, study finds

    Jul 24, 2024 10:25 PM EST

    ... t look left and right. You just have to keep forward. Fred de Sam Lazaro: Maxie-Cole notes her son died just two days after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis. She says living in a society rife with systemic and structural racism is like having a headache ...

  • Activists demand reform and justice after deputy shoots and kills Sonya Massey in her home

    Activists demand reform and justice after deputy shoots and kills Sonya Massey in her home

    Jul 23, 2024 10:35 PM EST

    ... do not." And in her own statement, Vice President Kamala Harris decried this as a senseless death and reiterated calls for Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which she co-authored. The law would, among other things, limit the use of force, ban choke holds, and ...

  • Body cam video shows Illinois deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey

    Body cam video shows Illinois deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey

    Jul 22, 2024 09:54 PM EST

    ... is representing Massey’s family, told the crowd at her funeral in Springfield on Friday that the video would reveal a crime as startling as the 1955 lynching of Chicago teenager Emmitt Till in Mississippi, the Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd.

  • Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Fact-checking Day 2 of the 2024 RNC

    Jul 17, 2024 05:40 PM EST

    ... those who can’t afford it, paid Tillman’s $2,000 bail in April 2022. In June 2020, during the protests against the murder of George Floyd, Harris tweeted in support of the Minnesota Freedom Fund "to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota." The organization ...

  • 'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death

    'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his chokehold death

    Jul 17, 2024 02:43 PM EST

    ... Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9, 2014. Six years later, George Floyd was recorded uttering the exact same words as he begged for air while a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd ...