FILE – Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of Floyd’s death, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, 2023, “on a civil rights…
Derek ChauvinST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin appealed his murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd to the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying the district judge’s decision not to move the proceedings out of the city deprived him of a fair trial. His attorney, William Mohrman, filed a petition for review with the state’s highest…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd has been convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Tou Thao, who already had been convicted in federal court of violating Floyd’s civil rights, was last of the four former officers facing judgment in state court in Floyd’s killing. He rejected…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – George Floyd’s aunt Angela Harrelson holds a discussion at Minnesota State University Moorhead on how her nephew’s murder changed the world. Angela Harrelson spoke of her nephew her family calls Perry. She described Floyd as a “ghetto superstar” who was born in North Carolina, grew up in Houston and moved to Minneapolis to change his life…
Derek ChauvinST. PAUL — An attorney for Derek Chauvin asks an appeals court to throw out the former Minneapolis officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd. He told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the trial judge should have moved the case out of Minneapolis because of the extensive pretrial publicity, and fears of violent protests that led to unprecedented…
Tou Thao and J. Alexander KuengMINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd are heading to trial on state aiding and abetting counts in what will be the third and likely final criminal trial stemming from the Black man’s death. Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of J. Alexander Kueng and Tou…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The last two former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights have been sentenced in federal court. J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday to three years and Tou Thao got a 3 1/2-year sentence. They were convicted in February of two counts of violating Floyd’s civil rights. The jury found they…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The F-M community and others across the country come to downtown Fargo for the 11th annual TEDx Talk Conference. Every year, there’s a theme at TEDxFargo. In 2019, it was about moving forward. This year, it’s about going beyond ways to explore boundaries to look forward to what’s possible. Twelve speakers from all walks of…
Derek ChauvinST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 245 months in prison on Thursday after reaching a plea agreement on federal charges he violated George Floyd’s civil rights, as well as those of a Black teenager. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered Floyd, to about 20 1/2 years, saying he doesn’t know…
Jerry BlackwellMINNEAPOLIS – President Biden has nominated one of the prosecutors who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer of murder in the killing of George Floyd to be a federal judge. Jerry Blackwell is a Minneapolis attorney and a founding partner of the law firm Blackwell Burke. Blackwell helped prosecute Derek Chauvin for the May 2020 killing Floyd. In…
