By Will Wright Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the lead prosecutor in the state’s case against Derek Chauvin, said during a news conference on Tuesday that “this is not the end,” and that his office expects to present another case this summer. Mr. Ellison did not elaborate on the other case, but three other officers […]

Calls for racial justice touched nearly every aspect of American life on a scale that historians say has not happened since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A community member visits the George Floyd memorial site in Minneapolis in June.Credit…Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times Supported by By Audra D. S. Burch, Amy […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States President Joe Biden called systemic racism a “stain on our nation’s soul” in a televised address to the nation Tuesday after a white former police officer was convicted of murdering a Black man during an arrest. Mr Biden spoke out after a jury in the Midwestern city of Minneapolis found […]

By Sean Plambeck Judge Peter A. Cahill revoked Derek Chauvin’s bail on Tuesday after he was convicted of murdering George Floyd. Mr. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who has been free on bail since the fall, was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs and remanded into the custody of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s […]

In testimony from 45 witnesses over three weeks, attorneys returned to the trial’s central questions: what caused George Floyd’s death, and were Mr. Chauvin’s actions justified and lawful. By Will Wright Source: Read Full Article

The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin case came after a three-week trial during which the jury had to watch harrowing footage and hear distressing testimony of the last moments of George Floyd’s life. It heard from numerous witnesses who described the ex-Minneapolis police officer’s behaviour as unreasonable and counter to what law enforcement would […]

President Joe Biden is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of the police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. As the jury on Tuesday met for a second day of deliberations in the trial of Derek Chauvin, Mr Biden confirmed he had spoken to Mr Floyd‘s family. “I’ve come to know […]

MONTREAL — A Quebec court on Tuesday largely upheld a law barring public sector employees such as schoolteachers, police officers, and judges from wearing religious symbols while at work, in a ruling that human rights advocates said would undermine civil liberties in the province. But the ruling also made some big exceptions that dissatisfied the […]

By Andrés R. Martínez Cities across the country are preparing for protests as the jury in the murder trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin entered its second day of deliberations on Tuesday. With the memory of last summer’s protests after George Floyd’s death still fresh, some states have ordered National Guard troops to […]

By Glenn Thrush transcript ‘Praying the Verdict Is the Right Verdict,’ Biden Tells Floyd Family President Biden disclosed the details of a phone call he shared with the family of George Floyd, as the family awaits the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer accused of killing Mr. Floyd. I’ve come to […]