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March 5, 2024
Democratic Rep. Cedrick Frazier's bill is meant to clarify the powers and policies of police officers who work in Minnesota…
February 11, 2024
Hundreds of signs, paintings and poems left to memorialize George Floyd are on display for the first time outside of…
January 10, 2024
Thao's appeal alleged misconduct and argued that prosecutors failed to prove his actions on the day that Floyd died were…
Derek Chauvin, theGrio.com
November 25, 2023
Derek Chauvin, the former cop convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbedat a federal prison in Arizona, the Associated Press.…
November 19, 2023
The Chicago Police Board voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by…
October 11, 2023
The Dayton foundation honors a book of fiction and of nonfiction for using “the power of literature to foster peace...
August 29, 2023
Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating…
August 12, 2023
Attempts to achieve police accountability on the federal level have been met with obstacles on Capitol Hill and at the…
July 21, 2023
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf…
Derek Chauvin, theGrio.com
July 20, 2023
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction for second-degree murder in…
police reform, Minneapolis, George Floyd, theGrio.com
July 14, 2023
With a judge's approval, a new set of police reforms is headed to Minneapolis three years after George Floyd's murder.
July 12, 2023
A police officer in Portland, Oregon, issued a video apology Tuesday for hitting a photographer in the head with a…
July 4, 2023
The events in France following the death of a 17-year-old shot by police in a Paris suburb are drawing parallels…
Black Voters Matter Group Gathers In Selma For March To Montgomery
June 22, 2023
Three years after George Floyd, Black grassroots leaders are still doing the painstaking work to build community power.
June 22, 2023
A judge Wednesday sentenced three people to more than 100 years each in prison for the fatal shooting of a…
June 8, 2023
State prosecutors have urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to reconsider his…
May 26, 2023
An internal investigation has concluded that U.S. Park Police used unnecessary force in a confrontation with two Australian journalists three…
George FloydDeathThirdAnniversary, theGrio.com
May 25, 2023
Proponents of federal actions — such as banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants — still await signs of change.
May 20, 2023
FBI officials in June 2020 ran searches related to more than 100 people arrested in connection with civil unrest and…
Derek Chavin wants new trial
May 19, 2023
In documents filed Wednesday, attorneys for Floyd's convicted killer again argued Derek Chauvin was denied the right to a fair…