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PublishedJuly 13, 2023
Black Lives Matter marks 10 years of activism, renews call to defund police
The movement first emerged in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
Bill would curb police power to pull over vehicles
The bill is aimed at reducing racial profiling, but police say it will make the roads less safe and remove tools used to get drunken drivers off the road.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2022
Ex-officer cleared in shooting during Breonna Taylor raid
Brett Hankison had been charged with 3 counts of wanton endangerment for firing shots that went through a sliding-glass side door and a window of Taylor's apartment and into a family's unit next door.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2022
Jury ends day of deliberations in trial of 3 former police officers in George Floyd killing
The men are charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when fellow Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9½ minutes, killing the 46-year-old Black man.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Jury adjourns for day without verdict in Ahmaud Arbery case
A jury in Georgia heard competing arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys on whether the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a federal hate crime.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2022
Former Minnesota officer gets 2 years in Daunte Wright’s shooting death
Kim Potter said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot the young Black man in April 2021.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2022
Officer describes what he did – and didn’t do – on day George Floyd was killed
Three other former Minneapolis police officers are accused of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care while Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the man's neck.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2022
Jury selection begins in hate crimes trial of men in Ahmaud Arbery murder
Given extensive pretrial publicity, U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ordered roughly 1,000 jury duty notices to be mailed to residents across 43 Georgia counties.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2022
Bomb threats made to historically Black colleges across U.S.
Monday's bomb scares came 1 day before the start of Black History Month and less than a month after a series of bomb threats were made to multiple historically Black universities on Jan. 4.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2022
Judge rejects plea deal on hate-crime charge for man who killed Ahmaud Arbery
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, asked the judged to reject the deal and described the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to propose it as 'disrespectful.'
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