Crime, Law and Justice

Walter Wallace Jr.'s family does not want police officers to face murder charges
"Here's why: they were improperly trained and did not have the proper equipment by which to effectuate their job," the family's attorney said on Thursday. The officers' names have not been released.
Supreme Court issues flurry of last-minute election orders
At first blush, the different outcomes at the Supreme Court seems odd because the high court typically takes up issues to harmonize the rules across the country. But elections are largely governed by states, and the rules differ from one state to the next.
Court: Late Minnesota absentee ballots must be separated
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that Minnesota's absentee ballots that come in after Election Day should be separated from the rest of the ballots, in case a future order makes those votes invalid.
Ballot segregation case lands before Minnesota Supreme Court
The state Supreme Court is pressing attorneys for President Donald Trump and two Republican entities about why they waited until days before the election to bring the challenge over late-arriving absentee ballots.
Philadelphia pledges better response after Black man's death
Philadelphia police pledged to release 911 tapes and police body camera footage "in the near future" in the shooting death of a Black man with a history of mental health problems, a death that prompted protests, widespread vandalism and an overnight curfew days before Election Day.
French prosecutor: Nice killer Tunisian, entered from Italy
France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says the man who killed three in a Nice church was a Tunisian who entered France from Italy. It was the third attack in two months in France that authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists, including the beheading of a teacher. 
Justices deny fast, new look at Pennsylvania ballot deadline
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not grant a quick, pre-election review to a new Republican appeal to exclude Pennsylvania absentee ballots received after Election Day.
60 charged in $300M phone scam targeting elderly victims
Sixty people are charged in a widespread magazine telemarketing scam that authorities say netted $300 million from more than 150,000 elderly and vulnerable people nationwide, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald announced Wednesday. She called it the largest elder fraud scheme in the country.
After pledging to defund police, Mpls. City Council still rethinking public safety
While it remains to be seen where those efforts to vastly reimagine public safety will land, an MPR News survey of Minneapolis council members show that there’s still significant common ground among them for changing the city’s relationship with the Police Department, including transferring police responsibilities to social workers, leaving police to focus on responding to and investigating crime.