by Marcos Bretón Many times in recent years I have wished Rick Braziel was still the chief of police in Sacramento. Now 61 and eight years retired from being Sacramento’s top cop, Braziel is the law enforcement leader we needed in recent years. The conviction on Tuesday ...
“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of yet another unarmed African-American man. The sentiment was altogether fitting and proper, especially given that his city was the ...
by Dahleen Glanton Months after police killed George Floyd on a busy street in Minneapolis, Army Lt. Caron Nazario had a dangerous encounter with police in rural Virginia. Nazario, who is Black and Latino, survived. But the officers’ overreaction to Nazario for driving a new SUV ...
America is on trial. Or at least, that is the conviction of many observers as Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, faces judge and jury in the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man. America on trial: It’s a headline in Time, the Toronto Star and ...
Editor’s note: Letters in support of candidates for city council will not be accepted after April 14 and will not be published after April 18. Program gives ‘Hope’ to West Virginia The future is bright for children across West Virginia. On March 29, Gov. Justice signed HB 2013, ...
by Lauren Trifunovich Courteney Ross, girlfriend to George Floyd, spoke through tears as she sat surrounded by a plexiglass divider in a courtroom April 1 during former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. She spoke of their relationship and shared struggle with ...