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Lawyers representing Daunte Wright’s family announced Wednesday they had reached a monetary settlement of $3.25 million with the city of Brooklyn Center for the fatal shooting of their son by a police officer. This settlement is the third largest civil rights wrongful death settlement in Minnesota. Lawyers for Daunte Wright’s family have stressed the importance [...]

Two New York lawyers have pleaded guilty to new charges as part of a plea deal for throwing a Molotov cocktail into a police car during a 2020 George Floyd protest. This case is in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis pleaded guilty last year to [...]

Two lawsuits were filed by Black Minneapolis residents on Tuesday against Derek Chauvin, several other officers and the City of Minneapolis alleging that Chauvin used excessive force during their encounters with him. Zoya Code and John Pope both allege that Chauvin used tactics similar to those that got him convicted for killing George Floyd. In [...]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison Wednesday announced former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for his role in the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Attorney General Keith Ellison issued the following statement: Today my thoughts are once again with the victims, George Floyd and his family. Nothing will [...]

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) Wednesday released a report on its investigation into patterns or practices of race discrimination by the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The investigation was begun on June 1, 2020, less than a week after an MPD officer murdered George Floyd. Floyd’s murder sparked widespread [...]

Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday that they would not file criminal charges in the death of Amir Locke. Locke, a Black man, was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer when law enforcement was executing a no-knock search warrant of a downtown apartment in February. [...]

The no-knock warrant — a search warrant that authorizes police officers to enter certain premises without knocking and announcing their presence or purpose before entering — is a source of contention in America today. Its element of surprise and extirpative effects makes it a powerful yet contemptible militarized tactic. In this respect, reference is made [...]

A federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights Thursday. The 12-person jury found the men, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, guilty of depriving Floyd of his civil rights by exhibiting indifference to his medical needs during Floyd’s arrest in May [...]

A Minnesota district court sentenced former police officer Kim Potter to two years in prison on Friday. Potter, the officer responsible for killing Daunte Wright last April, was sentenced on the charge of first-degree manslaughter. Convicted in December for first- and second-degree manslaughter, Potter was sentenced only on the more serious charge per Minnesota law. [...]

The federal trial against three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights in May 2020 commenced Monday, according to AP. The prosecutor alleged the three officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, violated Floyd’s civil rights by failing to intervene as former officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd to the [...]