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Throughout Trial Over George Floyd’s Death, Killings by Police Mount

MINNEAPOLIS — Just seven hours before prosecutors opened their case against Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, a Chicago officer chased down a 13-year-old boy in a West Side alley and fatally shot him as he turned with his hands up. One day later, at a hotel in Jacksonville, […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 17, 2021, 4:00 am
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Key Moments on Day 14 of the Derek Chauvin Trial

On Tuesday, Barry Brodd, a former police officer and use-of-force expert, testified for the defense that Mr. Chauvin’s use of force against Mr. Floyd was justified — countering two weeks of prosecution witnesses who argued the opposite. “I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified, and was acting with objective reasonableness, following Minneapolis Police Department policy […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 15, 2021, 9:32 am
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Takeaways from Day 13 of the Derek Chauvin Trial

The first medical expert witness called by Derek Chauvin’s defense team faced difficult cross-examination on Wednesday after he testified that George Floyd died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia, rather than a deprivation of oxygen caused by Mr. Chauvin. Dr. David Fowler, a former chief medical examiner of Maryland who has testified in numerous high-profile police use-of-force […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 14, 2021, 5:29 pm
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Unequal Justice: What We Can Learn from the Derek Chauvin Trial

Every lawsuit tells a story. Some are only about the immediate parties and participants. Others present “big pictures” about our basic institutions, our political and moral values, and, for better or worse, our concepts of justice. Black men are nearly three times as likely to die from police use of force as white men. […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 14, 2021, 1:29 pm
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Derek Chauvin Trial Today: Live Updates

The defense for the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is expected to call medical witnesses to the stand as soon as Wednesday, in the hopes of combating the claims of earlier witnesses who testified that George Floyd died from a deprivation of oxygen. For the first time in the trial, a witness testified on […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 14, 2021, 8:15 am
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Chauvin Trial: Defense Focuses on Floyd’s Past Police Encounters

MINNEAPOLIS — A police officer approached a car with George Floyd in the front seat, and Mr. Floyd started to panic. While officers ordered him to spit out a pill he was trying to swallow, he repeatedly begged them not to shoot him. Within seconds, one of the officers had his gun drawn and Mr. […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 13, 2021, 7:06 pm
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Takeaways from Day 12 of the Derek Chauvin Trial.

For the first time in the trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin, a witness explicitly defended his actions when he knelt on George Floyd for nine and a half minutes. Barry Brodd, an expert on the use of force who was called to testify by the defense, said on Tuesday that Mr. Chauvin […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 13, 2021, 4:51 pm
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Key Moments Entering Day 12 of the Derek Chauvin Trial

“Mr. Floyd does not appear to have the intention to assault or attack the officers,” he said. “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable or reasonable use of force.” Mr. Stoughton walked the jury through many of the decisions the police made as videos of the arrest played from different […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 13, 2021, 8:32 am
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Derek Chauvin Trial Latest Updates: Defense Will Get to Call Witnesses

For two weeks, the prosecution built a case that George Floyd died because of Derek Chauvin’s use of force. Now his lawyer must make a counterargument amid the backdrop of unrest over another police killing. View the Original Article More

by Tonya Frazier April 13, 2021, 7:17 am
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Here Are The Takeaways from Day 11 of the Derek Chauvin Trial.

The third week of the Derek Chauvin trial began just hours after a crowd of protesters gathered outside Minneapolis and clashed with police officers, in protest of a fatal police shooting on Sunday. Eric J. Nelson, the defense lawyer for Mr. Chauvin, the former police officer who is accused of murder in the death of […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 12, 2021, 5:25 pm
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Key Moments on Day 11 of the Derek Chauvin Trial

He said he believed Mr. Floyd would have lived, had he been given treatment during several instances shown on the video. He said he noticed that an officer had said at some point during the arrest that he believed Mr. Floyd was passing out. “That would have been an opportunity to quickly relieve him from […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 12, 2021, 3:30 pm
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Derek Chauvin Trial Live Updates: Watch Stream and Analysis

It’s a Monday evening in Minneapolis. Police respond to a call about a man who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Seventeen minutes later, the man they are there to investigate lies motionless on the ground, and is pronounced dead shortly after. The man was 46-year-old George Floyd, a bouncer originally from […] More

by Tonya Frazier April 12, 2021, 9:25 am