Minnesota

2 days after a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, family and leaders mourned at the funeral of Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by a police officer during an April 11 traffic stop. “This country’s still got a problem that’s got to be fixed before we’re all equal,” says attorney Thomas Bowers, who represents 1-year-old Daunte Wright Jr....

Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison, but it will be two months before he is sentenced for murder in George Floyd’s death.

Hundreds gathered to remember Daunte Wright Thursday, 11 days after the young Black man was shot by police during a traffic stop and two days after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in George Floyd’s death.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison spoke on Tuesday after Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts in the death of George Floyd.

Rev. Al Shaprton addressed the media after a jury in Minnesota found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on three counts in the death of George Floyd.

Ebonie McMillan spoke to the New York Times about living near the Brooklyn Center Police Department which has seen protests after an officer shot and killed Daunte Wright. She’ll see chants and speeches during the day, but at night, cops and military are more aggressive and it’s a stressful situation for her and her children.

The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now in control of verdicts awaited by a skittish city.

Mondale served as vice president of the United States under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

Biden, who earned a reputation for being tough on crime while in the Senate in the 1990s, faces both political and legal headwinds.

As the nightly protests over Daunte Wright’s death intensify outside a police station in a Minneapolis suburb, some in the crowd are trying to prevent protests from escalating into violence

Some journalists covering protests over the police fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in suburban Minneapolis say police have harassed them despite a federal order to leave them alone

Daunte Wright’s family joined community leaders in demanding more severe charges against the white former police officer who fatally shot the young Black man in a Minneapolis suburb, where hundreds of protesters again filled the streets in front of the police station.

The former officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright was taken into police custody Wednesday morning.

The shooting of Daunte Wright by Police Officer Kim Potter occurred during the Minneapolis murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd.

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a Minnesota prosecutor said Wednesday.

A white police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb resigned Tuesday, as did the city’s police chief — moves that the mayor said he hoped would help heal the community and lead to reconciliation after two nights of protests and unrest.

The police shooting of Daunte Wright came amid the trial in Minneapolis of ex-cop Derek Chauvin, charged with the alleged murder of George Floyd.

Former Officer Derek Chauvin was justified in pinning George Floyd to the ground because he kept struggling, a use-of-force expert testified for the defense Tuesday, contradicting a parade of authorities from both inside and outside the Minneapolis Police Department. Taking the stand at Chauvin’s murder trial, Barry Brodd, a former Santa Rosa, California, officer, stoutly defended Chauvin’s actions, even as a prosecutor pounded...

Former police officer and use of force expert Barry Brodd testified during the trial of Derek Chauvin on Tuesday. “I felt Derek Chauvin was justified, was acting with objective reasonableness following Minneapolis Police Department policy,” Brodd said.’’

Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, delivered damning testimony in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, saying, “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable or reasonable use of force.”