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MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors are seeking to try the four former officers charged in George Floyd’s killing in one trial.
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank filed a motion Wednesday requesting to join the trials of Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. A trial date has been set for March 8.
Protests erupted in the US city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police shot a black man in the back several times from close range as he got into a car on Sunday evening, according to cellphone video of the incident.
The man, named as Jacob Blake by Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, was airlifted to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee and was in serious condition, Kenosha police said.
Cellphone footage of the incident shows a black man followed by two police officers with guns drawn as he goes around the front of a gray SUV.
As he opens the door and tries to get into the driver’s seat one of the officers pulls on his T-shirt and he appears to be shot repeatedly in the back.
Wisconsin protests after US police shoot black man in back
Protests erupted in the US city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, after police shot a black man in the back several times from close range as he got into a car on Sunday evening, according to cellphone video of the incident.
The man, named as Jacob Blake by Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, was airlifted to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee and was in serious condition, Kenosha police said.
“Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin,” Evers said on Twitter.
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.
“We stand with all those who have and continue to demand justice, equity, and accountability for Black lives in our country.”
Police said the shooting occurred when they were responding to a domestic incident at about 5:11pm.
Cellphone footage of the incident shows a black man followed by two police officers with guns drawn as he goes around the front of a gray SUV.
As he opens the door and tries to get into the driver’s seat one of the officers pulls on his T-shirt and he appears to be shot repeatedly in the back.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Blake’s three sons were in the car at the time and he had been trying to break up a fight between two women.
The shooting, which is now under investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday when officers responded to calls of a domestic incident. Video shows Blake walking away from officers who are pointing their weapons at him. He approaches an SUV, opens the driver's side door when an officer grabs his shirt, and then fires at least seven shots into Blake's back.
An Illinois teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, was charged Wednesday with first-degree intentional homicide in a shooting late Tuesday during a clash between protesters of police brutality and armed counter-protesters
The armed civilians had gathered to protect a gas station from looters and vandals, and video shows police offer Rittenhouse water shortly before the shooting and thank him for being there.
Another video shows Rittenhouse open fire with a rifle after he fell to the ground and then calmly walk toward police vehicles with his hands raised in surrender. Other people can be heard yelling that he had shot someone.
However, no officers are seen getting out of the vehicles, which continue advancing toward protesters, to apprehend Rittenhouse — who then fled the state and was considered a fugitive.
He was arrested later Wednesday back in his hometown. He is reportedly being held in the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center near Vernon Hills awaiting an extradition hearing.
Fox News personality Tucker Carlson defended Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested for the murder of two Black Lives Matter protesters.
“The 17-year-old who has been charged tried to run from the mob, tripped and fell in the middle of the street,” Carlson said. “A man ran up and smashed him in the head with a skateboard. The 17-year-old fired his gun.”
“Kenosha has devolved into anarchy, the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it,” Carlson argued. “People in charge, from the governor of Wisconsin on down, refused to enforce the law. They stood back and watched Kenosha burn.”
“So are we really surprised this looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” he asked.
On Wednesday, the Kenosha Police Department gave a press conference about the shooting by an apparent militiaman that left two protesters dead, saying that “everyone involved was out after curfew” and confirming that “a 17-year-old individual” was “involved” in “the use of firearms.”
Commenters on social media were not satisfied with the police’s comments on the incident.
An out-of-state 17 yo was out after curfew with a firearm and your LEO’s didn’t stop him? Is that what you’re saying Chief?
It took like 10 minutes to decide to arrest him. Why didn’t the LEO’s arrest on the spot?
This statement condemns his department most of all.
Jacob Blake’s father said that his paralyzed son is handcuffed to his bed, despite the fact that Blake can’t stand or go anywhere. To make matters worse, Blake hasn’t been charged with a crime as of yet, so his family isn’t sure why he’s handcuffed.
The Chicago Sun-Times explained that the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office and Wisconsin Department of Justice all didn’t respond to questions or give any information about the charges against Blake.
When traveling from out of state with an AR-15 is not treated as a crime, but “filling up gas cans for your food truck” leads to immediate arrest.
Soon after their Wednesday arrival in Kenosha, Wisconsin, eight volunteers from Seattle-based Riot Kitchen who planned to distribute free food to protesters were arrested by law enforcement officials who emerged from unmarked cars, as the Seattle Times reported.
Footage recorded by a bystander and widely shared on social media was featured in the Washington Post. The video shows law enforcement officers jump out of black SUVs and smash the window of a minivan before handcuffing both of the vehicle’s occupants:
According to a statement made by the Kenosha Police Department, city police officers—assisted by U.S. Marshals—acting on information from a citizen tip about “suspicious vehicles with out of state plates,” located a black school bus, bread truck, and tan minivan, and “took up surveillance.”
After following the vehicles to a gas station, police say they observed occupants of the bus and bread truck filling fuel cans. The police say they suspected that “the occupants of these vehicles were preparing for criminal activity related to the civil unrest,” and claim to have attempted to investigate after identifying themselves.
Marziah, Ph.D.
@marziah
Filling up gas cans for your food truck is not a crime. Out of staters possessing unused fireworks is not a crime. Possessing gas masks, helmets, and vests is not a crime.
A minor in possession of a weapon is, however, a crime. He then murdered people.
In a post to his Instagram account this Thursday, former NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall can be seen arguing with a security detail outside the new home he was trying to move into — a security detail who had just called the police on him because they allegedly didn’t believe he belonged on the premises.
In light of the police shooting of unarmed African American father Jacob Blake, we look at the past misconduct of the Kenosha police department. In 2004, Kenosha police killed white 21-year-old Michael Bell in front of his mother and sister. The Kenosha Police Department conducted its own review of the incident, and within two days completely exonerated the officers. Bell’s father, Michael Bell Sr., commissioned an independent inquiry that found the police account of the incident to be forensically impossible. “It was really hard for me to believe that a uniformed person would do that,” says Michael Bell Sr., who claims the Kenosha police department “covered up the true facts of the case.”
Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who illegally obtained firearms, then drove across state lines with those illegally obtained firearms to a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he killed two people and injured one, did not appear at his extradition hearing this morning, saying that he needed time to assemble his legal team. A judge has agreed to give him a month to get that together before deciding whether or not to send him back to Wisconsin to face charges there.
On Thursday night, however, the Kenosha County District Attorney's Office charged him on five counts — "first-degree intentional homicide, one count of first-degree reckless homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment."
If found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, he would get a mandatory life sentence.
On Twitter for the past few days, conservatives have been pushing the line that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense, asserting without evidence that one of his victims, Joseph Rosenbaum, had thrown a Molotov cocktail at him.
US police have shot dead another black man, who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as tensions soar over racism and police brutality.
The man, named in local media as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies tried to stop him for an unspecified vehicle code violation on Monday afternoon.
He fled on foot, and when officers caught up with him he punched one deputy in the face, dropping some items of clothing he was carrying, police said.
“The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semi-automatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred,” Lieutenant Brandon Dean told reporters.
Gunfire broke out while Charles McMillon Jr., his son, and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons were dropping off a U-Haul truck. The next thing they say they saw was an older couple coming toward them, both pointing guns in their direction.
The couple ordered them to not move, but McMillon sped off in his truck in a panic. Speaking to the Tallahassee Democrat, McMillon says he thinks they were being racially profiled because they’re Black.
The two shooters, Wallace Fountain, 77, and his wife, Beverly Fountain, 72, own the Tennessee strip mall where the incident took place and were reportedly staking it out inside another U-Haul truck. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the couple said they were having problems with people stealing gas. But according to McMillon and Clemons, they were profiled by vigilantes and never given a chance to explain why they were there.
The Fountains were arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault without intent to kill.
A far-left activist suspected of killing a right-wing protester in Portland was shot dead by police in Washington state as they tried to arrest him, local law officials said.
The man, identified in US media reports as Michael Forest Reinoehl, was killed as he ran from four officers on Thursday evening, a spokesman for the Thurston county sheriff’s office, southwest of Seattle, told AFP on Friday.
A regional task force was watching the apartment of a “homicide suspect”, who left the building and approached a vehicle “as officers attempted to apprehend him”, Lieutenant Ray Brady said.
The man appeared to be armed and officers fired several shots into the vehicle before the man fled, Brady added. Several more shots were then fired.
The presence of a weapon has not been confirmed, Brady said.
The US Marshals Service confirmed officers fired at Reinoehl, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Washington Post.
The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., has ordered the immediate suspension of seven police officers over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation after being restrained during his arrest in March.
Police body camera footage of the encounter was released Wednesday, prompting protests and calls for transparency and justice.
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Mayor Lovely Warren announced she is suspending the officers in question with pay. She said she did so "against the advice of counsel," noting the police union could respond by suing the city.
Warren said Prude had been failed "by our police department, our mental health care system, our society ... and by me."
Two heavily armed supporters of President Donald Trump were arrested this week when the FBI received a tip that they were planning to drive to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where they hoped to “pick people off.”
Local news station WISN reports that Missouri residents Michael Karmo and Cody Smith were arrested by federal agents in a hotel parking lot this week after the FBI learned on Tuesday that they were driving to Kenosha armed with a large cache of weapons.
Officials also say that the two men were planning to travel to Portland, Oregon after their Kenosha stop, where they had pledged to “take action” if the city moved forward with defunding its police department.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new law that raises the bar for justifying police shootings is being touted as the reason a prosecutor has decided to press the first homicide charge against a Bay Area law enforcement officer in over a decade.
But does the surprise announcement by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley — who has been vilified by police critics for never having taken a cop to court — signal a sea change in the way officers are held accountable for deadly force or just an anomaly?
On Wednesday, O’Malley announced she would pursue voluntary manslaughter charges against San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher, 49, in the fatal shooting of Steven Taylor, 33, at a Walmart store April 18.
Her decision comes in the wake of the recent shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which sparked the latest wave of protests across the nation and locally in cities such as Oakland and San Jose, as well as the ongoing civil unrest from the killings of Black Americans including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
Schumer calls for accountability in Daniel Prude death in Rochester
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for “full accountability” in the death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died of asphyxiation in March following an encounter with police.
“What happened to Daniel Prude is wrong,” Schumer tweeted. “His tragic death requires full accountability for any and all wrong-doing and an immediate and complete investigation, which @NewYorkStateAG is currently doing.”
A 13-year-old Utah boy with autism is still recovering in the hospital after being shot several times by police, KUTV reports.
Linden Cameron was wounded in his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and his bladder. Speaking to KUTV, Linden’s mother Golda Barton said that she called police and asked for a crisis intervention team because her son was having a “mental breakdown.”
“This is how to deal with people with mental health issues,” she said. “So, you call them, and they’re supposed to come out and be able to deescalate a situation using the most minimal force possible.”
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Barton said she informed officers that her son was not armed and is simply a “kid who doesn’t know how to regulate” his emotions. But according to her, less than five minutes after officers entered her door, she heard them ordering her son to “get down on the ground” followed by several gunshots.
Additionally, Barton said that after officers opened fire, one officer put his hands on his head in disbelief and said, “He’s just a child, what are you doing?”
After the community responded to a police-involved in the death of Daniel Prude, many officers, including the chief, are resigning.
Prude was suffering under a mental health episode and was nakedly running through the streets. Police grabbed him, put a “spit hood” over his head after he claimed to have COVID-19, and held him, face down on the pavement for two minutes and fifteen seconds. He then stopped breathing.
Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary announced that he would be resigning on Tuesday afternoon with a letter hitting back against those who he said have attacked him unfairly, The Beat reported.
Not long after, the entire Rochester police department command staff also resigned.
Los Angeles police officers have continued to kill civilians at alarming rates and under questionable circumstances in the last three months, despite a summer of unprecedented activism and growing political pressure from lawmakers.
Most recently, two deputies with the Los Angeles sheriff’s department (LASD) fatally shot a bicyclist, 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, who was fleeing after officers tried to stop him for an alleged “vehicle code” violation. The killing on Monday of yet another Black man in South LA was one of more than 10 fatal police shootings in the LA region since the George Floyd protests erupted at the end of May.
“If they are killing in this climate, even with the light that has been shined on this, then it’s obvious that it’s their intent,” said Myesha Lopez, 35, whose father was killed by LASD in June. “I think the protests are only making them more agitated, more trigger-happy, more volatile, more unstable. I don’t believe these officers have the ability to reform themselves.”
Police leaders have put forward accounts of each killing that they say justify the use of force. But civil rights activists and victims’ families say the repeated bloodshed is a sign that police continue to escalate conflicts and resort to violence, even in the most routine of encounters – and that a more radical response is needed to prevent the next tragedy.
Colgrove was taken into custody the next morning when he returned to his home. He will be arraigned on a second-degree murder charge on Wednesday.
Four former Minneapolis police officers are blaming each other for the killing of George Floyd.
Prosecutors want to try all four — Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao — in the on-duty May 25 killing of Floyd, but attorneys for the former officers are seeking separate trials, reported the Associated Press.
“It is impossible to evaluate any individual Defendant’s conduct in a vacuum,” prosecutors argued.
The 46-year-old Floyd was in handcuffs when Chauvin pressed his knee into the Black man’s neck as he begged for his life.
Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter, while the other three former officers were charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.