By Randy Furst Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS — Four off-duty Minneapolis police officers working the Minnesota Lynx game at Target Center on Saturday night walked off the job after the players held a news conference denouncing racial profiling, then wore Black Lives Matter pregame warm-up jerseys. Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, the […]
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Baltimore police van driver, now acquitted in Gray case, to get back pay
Associated Press BALTIMORE — The driver of the Baltimore police van where a black man's neck was broken will get nearly $88,000 in back pay. Officer Caesar Goodson was suspended without pay after being charged with felonies in Freddie Gray's death. Now that he's been found not guilty, the Board of Estimates is set Wednesday […]
Sheriff: Inmate who killed 2 at Mich. courthouse was handcuffed
By David Eggert and Ed White Associated Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — An inmate charged with violent crimes was handcuffed when he wrested a gun from a sheriff's deputy and killed two bailiffs at a southwestern Michigan courthouse, a sheriff said Tuesday. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said he had wrong information Monday night when […]