• New Jersey police officer not charged in 2020 shooting

    New Jersey police officer not charged in 2020 shooting

    Nov 02, 2022 06:58 PM EST

    ... Best, who was unnecessarily murdered, and vindicate Officer Sean DeShader, who murdered this Black man immediately following the national civil rights reckoning in the post-George Floyd world, tells us nothing has changed," said Randy Thompson, CEO of the advocacy group Help Not Handcuffs. "There continues to be no transparency ...

  • New report shows Department of Homeland Security gathered intel on Portland Black Lives Matter protestors

    New report shows Department of Homeland Security gathered intel on Portland Black Lives Matter protestors

    Oct 28, 2022 09:10 PM EST

    ... in June and July 2020, when militarized federal agents were deployed to Portland against people protesting police abuses in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. When the dossiers were being compiled, some DHS analysts voiced concerns over ...

  • News Wrap: Two victims killed in St. Louis school shooting

    News Wrap: Two victims killed in St. Louis school shooting

    Oct 24, 2022 10:50 PM EST

    ... swarmed the site. There's no word on a motive. A former Minneapolis police officer, J. Alexander Kueng, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting George Floyd's death. It came as jury selection was set to begin in his state trial. Another former officer, Tou Thao, waived a jury ...

  • Pressure mounts on Los Angeles city leaders following leaked audio of racist remarks

    Pressure mounts on Los Angeles city leaders following leaked audio of racist remarks

    Oct 11, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... of racism and inequity. And I think that that is starting to come out with these recordings. We saw some of that in 2020 after George Floyd. We had massive protests here, Black Lives Matter and like. But we are seeing something else between racial tensions between Black and Latino ...

  • With control of the U.S. Senate at stake, eyes are on Wisconsin's race

    With control of the U.S. Senate at stake, eyes are on Wisconsin's race

    Oct 09, 2022 09:40 PM EST

    ... are supporting him are zeroing in, in particular on what Mandela Barnes said, and his social media postings in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, focusing on what he said about defunding or reducing funding for the police, and for abolishing ICE, which, of course, is ...

  • GOP steps up crime message in midterm's final stretch

    GOP steps up crime message in midterm's final stretch

    Oct 07, 2022 03:20 PM EST

    ... of the most prominent examples of race-baiting in politics. In this year's elections, Republicans often blame crime on criminal justice reforms adopted after George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police, including changes to bail laws that critics had long contended disproportionately impacted communities of color, along with accusations ...

  • City to pay $12 million to children of Daniel Prude, Black man killed by police

    City to pay $12 million to children of Daniel Prude, Black man killed by police

    Oct 06, 2022 07:30 PM EST

    ... commanders urged city officials to hold off on publicly releasing the video because they feared violent blowback if it came out during nationwide protests that were then unfolding over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Prude's family eventually obtained the video and released it in September 2020.

  • Oklahoma City works to reform police force after Black Lives Matter protests

    Oklahoma City works to reform police force after Black Lives Matter protests

    Sep 29, 2022 10:25 PM EST

    After the 2020 killing of George Floyd and nationwide protests for Black lives, calls for police reform echoed through communities. Among America’s large police departments, Oklahoma City ranked second in the country for the rate of people killed by officers. In March of this year, they began implementing major ...

  • House Democrats reach deal on policing bills ahead of midterms

    House Democrats reach deal on policing bills ahead of midterms

    Sep 21, 2022 10:50 PM EST

    ... to spare on the House calendar, could help unite the party on a public safety platform more than two years after the police killing of George Floyd. “I’m proud to have worked closely with Republicans, Democrats, and a broad spectrum of stakeholders to make real progress for public safety ...

  • Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 3 years in plea deal

    Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane sentenced to 3 years in plea deal

    Sep 21, 2022 04:47 PM EST

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years. Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil ...