Police abuse of power often involves not only the abuser but also other officers who enable the abuse through inaction and silence. They are virtually never prosecuted, meaning that a crucial precedent could be set with the trial that began last Monday for the three former Minneapolis police ...
You might think it was a crime, but last week, a grand jury did not. The reference is to the case of one Jared Lafer. He is a white man in his 20s who, in September of last year, was driving in Johnson City, Tenn., when he came upon a small group of Black Lives Matter protesters in a ...
by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Millions of people have celebrated former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd as a validation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is a major step along the way to police reform. Yet we should not be ...
State, county and city leaders faced a big test in the aftermath of the tragic killing of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old man shot by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly A. Potter Sunday. Tensions were heightened because Wright's death came during the trial of former Minneapolis ...
by Dahleen Glanton Stacey Abrams and Black Lives Matter have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both were unexpected, nontraditional choices. But only one deserves to win. If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, it is possible that his movement would look a lot like ...
The Dominion Post's top five pictures of the year A lot has happened in the last twelve months, and The Dominion Post's photographers have been out in the community capturing as much of is at the can. Based on social media data, specifically Instagram likes, we were able to determine some ...