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Minnesota Attorney General Who Won Chauvin Conviction ‘Appalled’ by 2013 Police Shooting
The prosecutors who won a conviction for the murder of George Floyd say they are focused anew on the case of a young Black man killed by Minneapolis police in 2013. Terrance Franklin was 22 when he was shot 10 times–five times in the head–by SWAT officers in a confrontation that Franklin’s family called an…
LaTanya Gordon Lost Two Sons to Gun Violence in Three Months. A Year Later, Both Cases Remain Unsolved—a Lack of Closure That Haunts Many Fatal Shootings
Historically when it comes to homicides in poor and disenfranchised Black communities, many cases are left unsolved
Uncle of Darnella Frazier Struck, Killed by Minneapolis Police in Pursuit of Robbery Suspect
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) car crash that led to the death of Leneal Lamont Frazier, the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the Minneapolis teen who filmed George Floyd‘s murder last summer. Leneal Frazier, 40, was reportedly in his car at an intersection in north Minneapolis at around 12:30 am…
Minneapolis Police Were Cleared in the 2013 Killing of Terrance Franklin. A Video Complicates the Story—and Now the Case May Be Reopened
A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined
Blue Bailout: Covid-19 Cash Is Militarizing Cops Across the Country
How police departments are using pandemic funds to bulk up their high-tech arsenals
‘Still So Much Work To Be Done.’ Buoyed by Chauvin Trial Results, the Police Reform Movement Looks Ahead
A collective sigh—whether of release, relief, shock or discomfort—was felt across the city of Minneapolis, and much of the U.S., on April 20, as Judge Peter Cahill read a jury’s verdict for all three charges filed against former Minneapolis police department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd: guilty of second-degree murder,…
Bodycam Footage Shows Chicago Police Shooting 13-Year-Old Boy With His Hands Up
Officials had claimed Adam Toledo had a gun in his hand when he was killed, but the new footage suggests those claims were false
Reckoning With One Police Shooting and Another Police Trial, Minnesota Activists Are Weary, and Wary of Reform Goals
With jury deliberations in the Chauvin trial set to begin, attention is now shifting between the verdict and another contentious legal battle
Cop Who Shot Daunte Wright Charged With Manslaughter
Kim Potter appeared to mistake her handgun for her Taser before fatally shooting the 20-year-old
Amid Derek Chauvin Trial, Minnesota Grapples With Another Police Killing of an Unarmed Black Man
As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, entered its eleventh day on Monday, another police killing of a Black man in Minnesota has grabbed the state’s—and the nation’s—attention. Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by a police officer in the city of…
It’s a ‘Nightmare Being Replayed’ as a Cop Faces Trial in George Floyd’s Death
As Derek Chauvin goes on trial, the family of another Black man in Minneapolis who died after a police chokehold hopes for justice