Detroit Police chief James Craig said on Monday that it was “reckless and disgusting” for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to say that policing in the United States is “inherently & intentionally racist.”
In an appearance on CNN, the police chief was asked about Tlaib’s fiery tweet, in which she claimed that the recent police-involved shooting of Duane Wright “wasn’t an accident” and that “policing in our country is inherently & intentionally racist.”
“…Chipotle opened its first digital-only location last November. Last summer, Starbucks announced it would close 400 traditional stores and open 300 “pickup-only” stores. Taco Bell recently announced it would open a digital-only “cantina” in New York’s Times Square.”
Federal budget 2021 by the numbers: From a $15 minimum wage to $10 a day child care
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday was found guilty of murdering George Floyd during his arrest last year.
Jurors deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before reaching a verdict in the high-profile and closely watched case stemming from Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death — which kicked off worldwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
Here’s the moment Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts. pic.twitter.com/SebMd3wRus
— David Mack (@davidmackau) April 20, 2021
Entry of the deadly Indian ‘double mutant’ COVID-19 variant into this country could prove catastrophic.
Prince Charles and Prince William are now reportedly sorting out the “future business of the monarchy” and will design tailor made roles for its seven senior members.
While Prince Andrew attended the funeral of his father Prince Philip last weekend, his future within the British royal family is uncertain, the Daily Mirror reports.
According to the newspaper, Buckingham Palace sources have revealed that both Prince Charles and his son Prince William are “totally aligned” that there’s “no way back” for Prince Andrew in the wake of the controversy regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the drive-by shooting of a group of Minnesota National Guard soldiers this week that left two injured.
The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Andrew Thomas with one count of illegal possession of a firearm on Monday. Minneapolis police say they arrested Thomas Sunday night driving the vehicle caught on camera during the shooting.
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says Canada’s international and U.S. border restrictions will be in place for another month, at least.
In a pair of announcements made Tuesday, Blair said that Canadian and U.S. officials have agreed to keep the border between the two countries closed to non-essential travel, as well as the existing restrictions on non-U.S. international travel into Canada will be extended until May 21.
Jurors have reached verdicts in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who faces charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd’s death last year. The verdict will be announced in announced in open court between 3:30 and 4 p.m. CDT. (4:30 to 5 PM Toronto time)
Jurors, who were sequestered, reached their decision after hearing closing arguments from the prosecution and defense Monday. They started deliberations afterward. Jurors heard from 44 witnesses over 14 days of testimony. The trial began seven weeks ago on March 8 with jury selection, and was livestreamed across the world by several media outlets on multiple platforms.
What are the charges against ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd?
I went to the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis to speak with protesters. pic.twitter.com/G3zBJjAPDo
— Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) April 20, 2021
He’s toast. The only thing to wonder about is the extent of the celebratory rioting that will follow.
British evolutionary biologist and famed atheist Richard Dawkins has been stripped of his “Humanist of the Year” award following tweets comparing transgender people to Rachel Dolezal, a White activist who self-identifies as Black.
The American Humanist Association announced in a statement Monday it was withdrawing the award given to Mr. Dawkins in 1996 after it determined he was “no longer deserving of being honored” by the organization.
While a jury was still deliberating the fate of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey couldn’t keep himself from weighing in during a press conference by saying that it doesn’t really matter what the jury ultimately decides, George Floyd “was killed at the hands of police.”
Which is exactly what the jury is there to decide based on actual facts and evidence – but Frey’s got some political points to score.
Jurors remain in deliberations into the afternoon in Derek Chauvin murder trial
Jurors remained in deliberations into the afternoon Tuesday in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, one day after being given the case late Monday.
The jury heard nearly six hours of closing arguments from opposing attorneys Monday in Hennepin County District Court about whether the former Minneapolis police officer should be convicted or acquitted of killing George Floyd on May 25 at 38th and Chicago by pinning him to the pavement until he died.
You know the wheels are coming off lockdown enforcement when the police are targeting a “12-year-old” potential violator in a skateboard park.
And a free society is skating on thin ice when videos show up appearing to show a kid being pushed to the ground by a police officer.
Russian troops are massing on the Ukraine border, Chinese vessels are swarming Whitsun Reef of the Philippines in the South China Sea, and China’s air force is flying almost daily through Taiwan’s air-defense identification zone. Chinese troops for almost a year have been dug in deep in Indian-controlled Ladakh in the Himalayas. Two large aggressors are threatening to break apart neighbors and absorb them.
The Biden administration has issued warnings to both Moscow and Beijing, but neither looks impressed. American attempts to de-escalate flashpoints are seen in Russian and Chinese circles as failures of resolve.
At least at this moment, those adversaries are right to scoff at the new U.S. leader.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin and that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and put the nation on edge, to be “overwhelming.”
Biden, ahead of a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office, told reporters that he was only weighing in on the trial into the death of George Floyd, who died with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, because the jury in the case had been sequestered. He confirmed that he called Floyd’s family on Monday to offer prayers and said he “can only imagine the pressure and anxiety they’re feeling.”
He wants Chauvin lynched to appease the base.
Uh Huh – Jen Psaki clarifies that Joe Biden wasn’t ackshually ‘weighing in’ on the Derek Chauvin trial verdict when he weighed in on the Derek Chauvin trial verdict
Jane Austen’s tea drinking will be subjected to “historical interrogation” over its slavery links, the director of a museum dedicated to the author has said.
The writer’s cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, where she wrote Emma and Mansfield Park before her death in 1817, is now a museum and place of “Janeite” pilgrimage dedicated to her life and work.
Staff at the museum are now re-evaluating Jane Austen’s place in “Regency-era colonialism” in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
Toronto says it will temporarily close any non-essential businesses that have had five or more COVID-19 cases in the previous two weeks.
Public health officials say the closures will be in effect for a minimum of 10 days, and workers are required to self-isolate during that time.
They say workplaces considered essential, such as health-care facilities and schools, may be exempt.
