By Kenneth Garger on Apr 21, 2021 02:13 am
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Columbus police headquarters on Tuesday night to protest the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant. The crowd pushed past police barriers to get near the building, where they approached officers and chanted the name of Bryant, who was shot dead outside of a home earlier in the day....
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By Kenneth Garger on Apr 21, 2021 01:34 am
Johnson & Johnson will resume its COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Europe, the company announced Tuesday, with added packaging labels warning of a rare risk of blood clots. The announcement came after Europe's health regulator, the European Medicines Agency, said the vaccine's benefits outweigh the risk of the rare, potentially lethal side effect. J&J's vaccine rollout...
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By Reuters on Apr 21, 2021 01:02 am
China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new U.S. administration. Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit starting on Thursday, after bringing the...
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By Kenneth Garger on Apr 21, 2021 12:17 am
Columbus police on Tuesday night released bodycam footage showing an officer's fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl earlier in the day. The truncated video begins at the moment the officer exits his vehicle and then encounters the teen who appears to be armed with a knife chasing a girl outside of a home. The girl...
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By Elizabeth Rosner, Kenneth Garger on Apr 20, 2021 11:31 pm
The Rev. Jesse Jackson joined hundreds of people in Minneapolis on Tuesday night celebrating the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd. The civil rights leader stopped by George Floyd Square — a community memorial site for Floyd located where he was killed last May. “What’s his name?" Jackson shouted to the...
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By Jesse O'Neill on Apr 20, 2021 10:50 pm
Minneapolis’ top cop says the community can “begin to heal,” after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd Tuesday. “I want to acknowledge and thank the jurors on this case for their immense responsibility and honorable civic duty,” Police Chief Medaria Arradondo wrote in a statement shared by journalist Tony Webster...
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By Tamar Lapin on Apr 20, 2021 10:46 pm
A police officer in Virginia was fired after donating to a legal defense fund for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, officials said Tuesday. Norfolk Police Lt. William Kelly anonymously gave $25 to a fundraiser for Rittenhouse in September, using his city email address, according to The Guardian. The donation reportedly came with a comment that read:...
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By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon on Apr 20, 2021 10:08 pm
A retired Pennsylvania cop facing 122 child molestation charges dating back two decades had his bail pumped up to $250,000 Tuesday after prosecutors said new victims have come forward, according to a report. James Carey, 53, a former Warminster Township police officer — and later a school bus driver — was charged earlier this month...
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By Juliegrace Brufke on Apr 20, 2021 09:09 pm
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is urging his state’s Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly not to support their party’s push for the expansion of the Supreme Court. In a letter sent to the senators on Tuesday, Brnovich raised concerns that expanding the number of Supreme Court justices could be detrimental to the system...
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By Associated Press on Apr 20, 2021 08:47 pm
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he is sending 250 National Guard troops to the state's southern border with Mexico amid the increased arrivals of migrants. The announcement came the day Customs and Border Protection held an open house at a new tent-like migrant processing center in the border community of Yuma. It...
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By Kenneth Garger on Apr 20, 2021 08:37 pm
Derek Chauvin jotted down his lawyer's phone number on his hand ahead of his Tuesday conviction for killing George Floyd, a new report said. Chauvin's lawyer, Eric Nelson, confirmed with TMZ that his client wrote down the number in anticipation of having his bail revoked — which it was — following the guilty verdicts on...
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By Jesse O'Neill on Apr 20, 2021 08:34 pm
Former President Obama said Tuesday that the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial “did the right thing” by finding the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd, but that much more needs to be done to reduce racial inequity in the US. “If we’re being honest with ourselves,...
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By Bruce Golding on Apr 20, 2021 08:04 pm
Twitter users pounced on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday after she publicly thanked George Floyd “for sacrificing your life for justice.” "Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call out to your mom — how heartbreaking was that — call out for your mom, 'I can't breathe,’"...
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By Kenneth Garger on Apr 20, 2021 07:43 pm
Three more former Minneapolis cops are still set to stand trial in the death of George Floyd — following Tuesday’s murder conviction for former police officer Derek Chauvin The since-fired officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — are all free on $750,000 bail ahead of their trial, which is set to...
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By Steven Nelson on Apr 20, 2021 07:38 pm
President Biden on Tuesday praised the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd, but also accused the United States of deep-seated "systemic racism" as he said the guilty verdict was "too rare." "It was a murder in the full light of day. And it ripped the blinders off for the whole world...
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By Jesse O'Neill on Apr 20, 2021 07:30 pm
Derek Chauvin’s beauty queen ex-wife filed for divorce from the convicted ex-cop days after George Floyd died in his custody. Kellie May Xiong Chauvin, who was crowned Mrs. Minnesota in 2019, legally separated from Chauvin on May 28, 2020, three days after the fatal arrest, for which Chauvin was found guilty of murder Tuesday, according...
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By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon on Apr 20, 2021 06:39 pm
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison heralded the conviction of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s death on Tuesday — saying he would not call it “justice” but at least “the first step toward justice.” “This has to end. We need true justice,” Ellison said outside the courthouse after the verdict was announced. “That’s not one...
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By Juliegrace Brufke, Bruce Golding on Apr 20, 2021 06:30 pm
United States lawmakers expressed bipartisan support for Tuesday’s conviction of ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told reporters on Capitol Hill that the jury’s decision signaled a turning point in American history. “I think our justice system is getting more just,” said Scott, the Senate’s only black...
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By Kate Sheehy on Apr 20, 2021 06:27 pm
MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd's kin fought back tears Tuesday as they hailed the conviction of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in the 42-year-old black man's death — saying it wasn't just a victory for them but for the world. "What a day to be a Floyd, man,'' brother Terrence Floyd said at a press conference — as...
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By Amanda Woods on Apr 20, 2021 06:20 pm
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law an "anti-riot" aimed at cracking down on civil unrest — with provisions that include civil immunity to people who drive through protesters blocking roads. The controversial law was inked on Monday and goes into effect immediately, according to The Orlando Sentinel. "If you look at the breadth...
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