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Progressive district attorney faces tough-on-crime challenger in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Gascón won election as Los Angeles County district attorney in 2020 on promises to implement criminal justice reform in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Four years later he faces a tough-on-crime challenger who says such policies have gone...
A lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed by a state trooper has been dismissed
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop last year, ruling that the trooper's actions did not violate the law. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nancy...
A decade of racial justice activism transformed politics, but landmark reforms remain elusive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cori Bush went from helping to lead an informal movement for racial justice to winning two terms as a congresswoman from Missouri, with an office decorated with photographs of families who lost loved ones to police violence. One is of Michael Brown. Brown’s...
City Council candidate claims he's George Floyd's cousin. His family says otherwise
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Relatives of a City Council candidate in Richmond, Virginia, are casting doubt on his claim that he is a cousin of George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 death in police custody reignited the national Black Lives Matter movement. Tavares Floyd wants to...
Minnesota school district bans officer from teaching after he reenacted George Floyd's murder
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after a series of “racially harmful” actions that officials say included putting a student on the ground for a reenactment of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis...
19 mayoral candidates compete to lead Portland, Oregon, in a race with homelessness at its heart
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state’s most populous city features 19 candidates — all vying to lead after years of growing frustration over homeless encampments. Among them: three City Council...
Security guard gets no additional jail time in man's Detroit-area mall death
DETROIT (AP) — A judge ordered no additional jail time Thursday for a security guard for his role in the death of a man who repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe,” while pinned to the ground at a Detroit-area mall in 2014. Lucius Hamilton was one of four guards charged years...
Hmong Minnesotans who support Tim Walz hope to sway fellow Hmong communities in swing states
As co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association in Minnesota, Janssen Hang has met Gov. Tim Walz several times. It's usually been on farmland with Walz in his trademark red flannel shirt. “I’ve seen that red flannel multiple times.” Hang said,...
How Tucson police handled a death like George Floyd’s when leaders thought it would never happen
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Leaders of the Tucson Police Department had heard a little about the video. Now, for the first time, they would judge for themselves how grim it was. As the top brass gathered in a conference room at headquarters, Tucson was, like much of America, protesting...
These police officers had red flags in their past, then used force in a case that ended in death
PHOENIX (AP) — Sometimes second chances can prove deadly. A police officer in Minnesota was suspended for threatening to shoot a passenger in the head after an unauthorized high-speed chase. In Paterson, New Jersey, an officer threw a handcuffed woman to the ground and strangled...
