Police have driven away protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades and long lines of riot police, which the mayor of Brooklyn Center said was "not human."
Former Officer Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday.
Nineteen seconds elapsed from when Officer Eric Stillman exited his squad car to when he shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
The expert testified that he would classify the manner of death “undetermined,” rather than homicide, as the county’s chief medical examiner ruled.
Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned Tuesday, two days after Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned Tuesday, two days after Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright.
Philonise Floyd told the jury about how they grew up poor in Houston, his brother's passion for sports, his marginal cooking skills and how he was devastated by his mother's death.
Daunte Wright, 20, died Sunday in a metropolitan area that was already on edge because of the trial of the first of four police officers charged in George Floyd's death.
The request came the morning after the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop triggered unrest in a suburb just outside Minneapolis.
After nightfall, a few hundred protesters had gathered outside the suburban police department, guarded by hundreds of officers in riot gear.
Spoofing a local Minnesota news show, cast members took the roles of news anchors who all initially agreed on certain aspects of trial — except on its outcome.
Dr. Lindsey Thomas was the fourth medical expert called by the Minnesota attorney general's office as prosecutors looked to dismantle Chauvin's central defense.
He also emphatically rejected the defence theory that Floyd's drug use and underlying health problems were what killed him.
Chauvin, 45, is charged with murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death May 25.
Sgt. Ker Yang, the Minneapolis police official in charge of crisis-intervention training, said officers are taught to ``slow things down and re-evaluate and reassess.''
The doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified Monday that he theorized at the time that Floyd most likely died of suffocation.
The video was part of a mountain of footage and witness testimony this week in Derek Chauvin's trial in Floyd's death.
A Minneapolis firefighter who voiced frustration at being prevented from using her training to help George Floyd will be back on the stand Wednesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin.
Fourteen jurors or alternates are hearing the case — eight of them white, six of them Black or multiracial, according to the court.
Prosecutors have not said when they will play the video, but legal experts expect it to be early, maybe even in the prosecution’s opening statement.