CBS News,
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A group almost 40 Democratic lawmakers are asking President Joe Biden to overhaul the unemployment system by permanently enacting some pandemic-relief measures, such as allowing gig-economy workers to continue collecting jobless benefits. In a letter sent Friday to Mr. Biden, the lawmakers argue that traditional jobless benefits fail to reflect the realities of the modern workforce, as well as providing far too little aid for families when people lose their jobs. The signers include Senator Bernie Sanders, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and Representative Adam Schiff. The appeal comes a year after the pandemic caused U.S. unemployment to surge
Independent (UK),
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Andrew Buncombe
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It was probably the Rev Al Sharpton who put it best. Who did the police think they were dealing with – some kid with an air freshener? Well, they were wrong, he said. Duante Wright was a prince, the prince of Brooklyn Center. He added: “Minneapolis is stopped today to honour the prince of Brooklyn Center.” On Thursday, as the family of the 20-year-old man shot dead 10 days ago by police held a funeral service, they sought to highlight the different strands of a life cut woefully short – his love of basketball, his position as a beloved sibling
Hill [Washington DC],
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Mychael Schnell
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The family of 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black girl fatally shot by a Columbus Police officer Tuesday, reflected on her life on Thursday, stating that Bryant was “an all-around good person” in an interview with The Washington Post. (Snip) “M’Khia was just an all-around good person,” Don Bryant added. “She laughed a lot,” Ma’Khia’s great-grandmother Ila Bryant said, adding that she excelled in school. “Intellectually, she was very intelligent,” Ila Bryant said, according to The Post. Body camera footage released Tuesday showed an officer, identified as Columbus Police Officer Nicholas Reardon, approaching an altercation that involved Bryant. Soon after
USA Today,
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Asha C. Gilbert
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4/22/2021 9:13:06 PM
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As Earth Day is celebrated, Generation Z is grappling with the health of the planet and racism and social justice, according to a new survey. More than eight out of 10 young Americans say they are concerned about the health of the planet, according to the Blue Shield of California NextGen Climate Survey which polled participants between the ages of 14-24. (Snip) "This country has been founded on these unsustainable foundations of systems of oppression like white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism," Butler said. "Climate change intersects with all movements inside the social justice movement." Butler is the hip hop and climate
Washington Examiner,
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Becket Adams
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The family of a 16-year-old black girl fatally shot this week by a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, claims the teen was acting in self-defense when law enforcement officials arrived on the scene. They claim Ma'Khia Bryant was armed with a knife because she was being attacked. However, based on newly released footage captured by a neighbor’s security camera, we know at least the claim she was just protecting herself when the police showed up is not true. The new video, which supplements footage captured by a responding police officer’s body camera, shows the teenage girl instigating an altercation
Columbus Dispatch (OH),
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Céilí Doyle
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Zach Usmani gripped his phone, shoulders hunched over the steering wheel as he sat in his parked car Tuesday outside a gym in Columbus. He was watching a video livestream when Judge Peter Cahill read the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. (Snip) "Relief is just so tepid. It's tepid because I know this does not protect the next person from getting shot, protect the next person from being brutalized," Usmani said. "The police just can't stop themselves from killing Black people even with all the attention on this." The shooting comes as
Associated Press,
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Staff
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MINNEAPOLIS — An alternate juror at the trial of Derek Chauvin said she agreed with the jury’s decision to convict him in George Floyd’s death, saying she saw Chauvin as the leader of officers at the scene and that he brushed off warnings by bystanders that Floyd was in danger. “I felt he was guilty,” Lisa Christensen said on “CBS This Morning” in a story aired Thursday. “I didn’t know if it was going to be guilty on all counts, but I would have said guilty.” Christensen was one of two alternates dismissed by Judge Peter Cahill after Monday’s closing
Associated Press,
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Aaron Morrison
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MINNEAPOLIS — Daunte Wright, the young Black man shot by police during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was being remembered Thursday at a funeral just two days after a former police officer was convicted of murdering George Floyd and amid a national reckoning on racism and policing. (Snip) More than a dozen members from an armed team of local men, the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, many with rifles, sidearms and wearing body armor, provided security. Wright’s killing set off protests in Brooklyn Center, a working-class, majority nonwhite city, with hundreds of people gathering every night for a week outside the
Associated Press,
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Steve Karnowski
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MINNEAPOLIS — The judge who oversaw Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd ’s death said the jury would remain anonymous until he deemed it safe to release their names, in an effort to not just protect the 12 jurors from outside influence but also to preserve Chauvin’s right to a fair trial. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill hasn’t said how long their names might stay secret. He told potential jurors in the runup to the trial that their names would come out eventually, but assured them he would protect their privacy as long as he feels it’s necessary. How Long
USA Today,
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Marco Della Cava
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SAN FRANCISCO – Police officers responding to an auto burglary in progress here last week found the suspect sitting in the back of a Ford van with a machete in hand. Over the next three hours, a growing law enforcement group that included a crisis negotiation team and tactical operations experts circled the suspect. He refused to leave the van, so they engaged him in dialogue. At 8:37 p.m., the suspect, Marcel King, a 34-year-old Black man, exited the van without his machete and surrendered. “By isolating the scene, calling for backup, and generally de-escalating the situation, we got a
CNBC,
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Tucker Higgins
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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday will announce that the Department of Justice is launching an investigation into the practices of the Minneapolis police department, Justice Department officials told NBC News. The announcement will come one day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted by a jury in the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, who was killed in custody last year. (Snip) If the Justice Department concludes that a department has systematically violated the law, it can pursue a settlement with the department, often known as a consent decree, which sometimes entails independent monitoring or
Washington Examiner,
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Barnini Chakraborty
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4/21/2021 9:08:21 AM
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One day before his 6-year-old started at Broadview-Thomson Elementary School in Seattle, Ryle Goodrich was on the phone with the police department. He was walking near a sprawling homeless encampment on the edge of school grounds when he spotted a sword in one of the tents. (Snip) Despite multiple pleas from anxious parents such as Goodrich and Greens to remove the camp, the district has said no. They argue that sweeping the 50 or so tents of homeless people would send the wrong message to children and believe keeping them up would provide an up-close, in-person lesson in compassion. In
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Young people in particular are being bombarded with these destructive left-wing messages. Raising your family in an isolated jungle may soon be a better option.