Fair Parole: SB3233
Establishes a Fair and Inclusive Parole System in the State of Illinois.
PROTESTERS DISREGARD CURFEW IN MINNEAPOLIS
Amass At 5th Precinct in Minneapolis.
PRISONERS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PROTESTERS
On Friday, as protests raged across the nation over the police killing of George Floyd, in Chicago protesters were joined by the inmates of a correctional facility, who audibly banged on the walls in solidarity.
8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS
Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested.
4 days after George Floyd’s fatal arrest that sparked protests, rioting and outcry across the city and nation, and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced he has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Chauvin, 44, of Oakdale, was taken into custody.
Complaint says Chauvin was on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
DEREK CHAUVIN ARRESTED
The police officer seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday after three days of often-violent protests that resulted in fires and looting across parts of Minneapolis.
Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said state investigators arrested Derek Chauvin.
THUG PRESIDENT CALLS PROTESTERS THUGS
“With all the perversions of American democracy that we have witnessed, few rival the dystopian spectacle of a U.S. journalist calmly reporting the news and repeatedly offering to reposition his crew at the police’s request, only to be arrested, cuffed, and hauled away alongside his crew,” said Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, advocacy group that fights for press freedom.
“For us at PEN America, where we routinely document the arrest and imprisonment of writers and journalists worldwide, the action was eerily familiar, but something we expect to see in authoritarian states: Turkey, Hong Kong, Egypt. To see it in the United States of America is appalling.”
CNN CREW ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS
Omar Jimenez, a CNN journalist who identifies as black and Latino, and his crew were taken into police custody during a live broadcast at the site of the protests just after 5:00 a.m., after clearly identifying himself as a member of the press to officers.
Since then, the crew has been released. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz apologized to CNN.
3RD PRECINCT SET ON FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS
Police in Minneapolis tried to disperse a crowd gathering near the city’s Third Precinct police station on Thursday night, firing “flash bang” shots and then tear gas, according to reports.
Officers launching the warning shots and tear gas from the roof of the police station.
Soon after, a large fire erupted about two blocks from the police station — and then some demonstrators were seen breaking into the building after police officers evacuated.
MINNEAPOLIS ON FIRE
Minneapolis police chief on Thursday acknowledged his department had contributed to a deficit of hope in the city after the — and he and other officials called for calm following a night of destructive protests.
“I am absolutely sorry for the pain, devastation and trauma Mr. Floyd’s death has left on his family, his loved ones, Minneapolis and the world,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said.
No charges have been filed in Floyd’s death, but his family say they want murder charges for all four fired officers.
STATE OF EMERGENCY IN MINNEAPOLIS. STATE OF HEARTBREAK IN AMERICA.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has declared a state of emergency as rioting breaks out for the third night in the city while protests over George Floyd’s death spread across America.
Break-off protests over Floyd’s death are building, as questions continue to mount over why the police officers involved continue to walk free.
Floyd’s death has sparked outrage, after footage surfaced Monday showing white cop Derek Chauvin kneeling on the black man’s neck for eight minutes until he passed out and later died.
Authorities had claimed Floyd resisted arrest but new footage Wednesday cast fresh doubt on those claims, showing two cops forcibly removing him from his car and him appearing to comply with officers.
In Denver, shots were fired at the Colorado State Capitol where hundreds had marched to demand justice over Floyd’s death.
AMY COOPER & GEORGE FLOYD: 2 Sides Of The Racist Coin
Two incidents separated by twelve hours and twelve hundred miles have taken on the appearance of the control and the variable in a grotesque experiment about race in America.
On Monday morning, in New York City’s Central Park, a white woman named Amy Cooper called 911 and told the dispatcher that an African-American man was threatening her. The man she was talking about, Christian Cooper, who is no relation, filmed the call on his phone. They were in the Ramble, a part of the park favored by bird-watchers, including Christian Cooper, and he had simply requested that she leash her dog—something that is required in the area. In the video, before making the call, Ms. Cooper warns Mr. Cooper that she is “going to tell them there’s an African-American man threatening my life.”
Her needless inclusion of the race of the man she fears serves only to summon the ancient impulse to protect white womanhood from the threats posed by black men. For anyone with a long enough memory or a recent enough viewing of the series “When They See Us,” the locale of this altercation becomes part of the story: we know what happened to five young black and brown men who were falsely accused of attacking a white woman in Central Park.
On Monday evening, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a forty-six-year-old black man named George Floyd died in a way that highlighted the implications that calls such as the one Amy Cooper placed can have; George Floyd is who Christian Cooper might have been.
Police responding to a call from a shopkeeper, about someone trying to pass a potentially counterfeit bill, arrested Floyd. Surveillance video shows a compliant man being led away in handcuffs. But cellphone video later shows a white police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck for seven minutes, despite protests from onlookers that his life is in jeopardy.
In an echo of the police killing of Eric Garner, in 2014, Floyd repeatedly says, “I can’t breathe,” and then, “I’m about to die.” When the officer eventually removes his knee, Floyd’s body is limp and unresponsive. A person nearby can be heard saying, “They just killed him.” Floyd was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A police statement saids that Floyd appeared to be in “medical distress,” but made no mention of his being pinned to the ground with the weight of a police officer compressing his airway.
The video of Floyd’s death is horrific but not surprising.
