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Is curbing traffic stops a step to justice reform?

Is curbing traffic stops a step to justice reform?

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Ramsey County Attorney John Choi about his office’s decision to stop prosecuting most felony cases stemming from low-level traffic stops. 
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Criminal cases against Line 3 protesters stress rural Minnesota legal system

Criminal cases against Line 3 protesters stress rural Minnesota legal system

Hundreds of pipeline cases are straining resources in the northern Minnesota counties where most of the protests took place. Some protesters say they have had to wait months for a public defender.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Congressional negotiators have failed to reach a deal on police reform

Congressional negotiators have failed to reach a deal on police reform

After a Minneapolis jury found a white police officer who killed George Floyd guilty of murder, lawmakers in both parties had expressed cautious optimism that they could broker a deal.
by Juana Summers

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Abstract art created during Chauvin verdict goes up for auction

Abstract art created during Chauvin verdict goes up for auction

The starting bid for Minneapolis artist seangarrison’s “Walking on Air,” which he painted outside the Hennepin County Government Center, is $150,000. The sale will benefit Youth Link MN and the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, as well as the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama.
by Cathy Wurzer and Lindsay Guentzel

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Minneapolis police to get bystander training following murder of George Floyd

Minneapolis police to get bystander training following murder of George Floyd

Attorneys for the three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd are expected to argue that their clients had not been trained to intervene when a fellow officer uses too much force. Now, the department is adopting a training program designed to do just that.
by Tom Crann and Megan Burks

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Man charged with second-degree murder in killing of 4

Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, previously charged with allegedly hiding the bodies of four people in a Wisconsin cornfield, now faces four counts of second-degree murder.
by Matt Sepic

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Explainer: New charge unlikely for ex-cops in Floyd death

Explainer: New charge unlikely for ex-cops in Floyd death

The Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the third-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor won’t change the cases against the three former officers charged in George Floyd’s death.
by Amy Forliti, Associated Press

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Police: 2 shot at Virginia high school, suspect in custody

Police: 2 shot at Virginia high school, suspect in custody

Police say two students have been wounded in a shooting at a Virginia high school and a suspect is in custody. Newport News police Chief Steve Drew said Monday that a boy was shot in the face at Heritage High School, and a girl was shot in the leg.
by The Associated Press

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