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6 May 2021, 1:00 am by CAFE
On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “The Chauvin Prosecutors,” Preet interviews Jerry Blackwell and Steve Schleicher, the two lead prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/the-chauvin-prosecutors-with-jerry-blackwell-and-steve-schleicher/Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by… [read post]
5 May 2021, 7:55 am by Terri Howard
“Following the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests and calls for action, Drake Law students, faculty and staff came together to discuss what we would do as community to address issues of racism and bias. [read post]
3 May 2021, 9:40 am by Tom Smith
The incendiary racial and gender politics of the past seven years—from Ferguson, Missouri, to George Floyd; #MeToo to Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump to Andrew Cuomo—has only increased demand for (and reaction against) identity-based analysis and activism. [read post]
3 May 2021, 9:23 am by Margaret Wood
H.R.7120 [116th] George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 2. [read post]
3 May 2021, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
***For more background, check out the special, two-part podcast from Just Liberty on the Texas George Floyd Act: Here's Part One and Part Two. [read post]
3 May 2021, 3:58 am by SHG
For all the damage and destruction, the violence and trauma following the killing of George Floyd, remarkably little of use or sustainability has been accomplished. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 8:29 am by John Floyd
Already in 2020, the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) have approached multiple activists organizing for justice for George Floyd—who was killed by Minneapolis police officers—and have alternatively attempted to entrap them or pushed them to work as informants. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 6:48 am by Jacob Schulz, Tia Sewell
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on April 29, for example, that the Justice Department plans to use federal civil rights charges to seek an indictment of Chauvin and three other former officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, in addition to the guilty verdict against Chauvin in Minnesota state court. [read post]
The foreword to the report states that the Brennan Centre conducted this study in response to recent social movements emerging from officer Derek Chauvin’s excessive use of force, which resulted in the death of 49-year-old George Floyd last May. [read post]
Commissioners investigated 43 cases of police murder, including the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tamir Rice, as well as Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed by law enforcement. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 8:40 am by Bryce Klehm, Rohini Kurup
Police Reform It was nearly a year ago before her father’s funeral when I spoke to Gianna Floyd, George Floyd’s young daughter. [read post]
29 Apr 2021, 3:42 am by SHG
In the case of George Floyd, the assumption was that Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck was the proximate cause of death, and the medical testimony persuaded the jury of the causal connection beyond a reasonable doubt, while the defense failed to produce evidence of sufficient persuasiveness to counter that conclusion. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 1:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Three bills scheduled for votes on Thursday on the floor of the Texas House are all stand-alone parts of the Texas George Floyd Act: HBs 829, HB 830, and HB 834, and all by state Rep. [read post]
Garland announced an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department last Wednesday, a day after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder for the death of George Floyd. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 5:13 am
Almost as bad as sitting with a knee on the neck of George Floyd. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 3:43 am by SHG
Had Chauvin not been found guilty of murdering Minneapolis man George Floyd, that information likely would have been used to punish those jurors for reaching the “wrong” verdict. [read post]