Minneapolis police

Family and community members gathered on Thursday to remember 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by Minneapolis police during a traffic stop.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a “pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Wednesday the U.S. Department of Justice was opening an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.

What was different about the Chauvin trial wasn’t the verdict, though it felt rare after other cops had been let off the hook for using force on people of color. It was the millions of people who used the case as a rallying cry to call for real change. But it’s just one case. Aya Gruber, professor of law at...

Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of George Floyd’s death to hear the verdict in the trial of the former police officer charged in his death

A Minnesota jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in George Floyd’s death won’t testify in his own defense

The foundation of the case against the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd is a mountain of video evidence, but presenting that to jurors isn’t as easy as pushing play

On Monday, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that former officer Derek Chauvin violated multiple department policies when restraining George Floyd.

In Monday’s trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, prosecutors called as first witness 911 dispatcher Jena Lee Scurry, who saw the arrest taking place on a live feed police camera.

The trial of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin began this week in the death of George Floyd. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that while the president will not weigh in on an ongoing judicial case, Biden will be watching the trial closely. “It affected him personally,” Psaki said. “It redoubled his commitment to advancing racial justice.”

The trial of the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd is on hold while an appeal proceeds over the possible reinstatement of a third-degree murder charge.

The fired Minneapolis police officer who held his knee to George Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes agreed to plead guilty to third-degree murder days after Floyd’s death, but then-Attorney General William Barr rejected the deal, NBC News reported.

A judge has ruled that information about George Floyd’s prior arrests can’t be used at the trials of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in his death.

Prosecutors in the upcoming trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd want to introduce evidence of a 2017 arrest in which they say the officer held his knee on the back of a 14-year-old boy and ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe

A judge signed an order on Thursday permitting Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, to live outside of the state of Minnesota during the trial, citing ‘safety concerns’.

The four police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd appeared at a Minneapolis courthouse on Friday for pretrial proceedings.

A Minneapolis commission says it needs more time to review a City Council amendment to dismantle the Police Department in the wake of George Floyd’s death, ending the possibility of voters deciding the issue in November.

The Minneapolis officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck before he died told him, “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk” after Floyd pleaded for air more than 20 times.

A Minnesota judge has rejected allowing cameras in the court for pretrial proceedings of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd