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Editorial: Black Lives Matter is a good cause. Gross financial mismanagement is not

A closer inspection of the nonprofit tax form filed by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation reveals even more unseemly details about the group’s financial mismanagement than previously known. The group came under initial scrutiny after New York Magazine reported that the organization had secretly purchased a $6 million…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Spy agencies urged to fix open secret: a lack of diversity

The national reckoning over racial inequality sparked by George Floyd’s murder two years ago has gone on behind closed doors inside America’s intelligence agencies

The Independent UK

Ex-Minnepolis Officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter charge for role in George Floyd's murder

MINNEAPOLIS — Ex-Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane pleaded guilty Wednesday to aiding and abetting manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd two years ago on a south Minneapolis street, avoiding a trial next month in Hennepin County District Court.

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Raleigh reaches settlement with teen detained in 2020 George Floyd protests for arrest

RALEIGH, N.C. — The city of Raleigh will pay $37,500 to a woman who alleged her civil rights were violated by a Raleigh police officer almost two years ago when she was wrongfully arrested at a downtown Black Lives Matter protest.

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Ex-Minneapolis police officer pleads guilty in George Floyd case

By entering the plea, Thomas Lane avoided the more serious charge of aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

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Ex-MPD officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter charge for role in George Floyd's murder

MINNEAPOLIS — Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane pled guilty Wednesday to aiding and abetting manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd two years ago on a south Minneapolis street, avoiding another trial next month in Hennepin County District Court.

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A former Minneapolis cop pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd killing

Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd's killing. The state is recommending a sentence of three years in prison.

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George Floyd: Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane admits aiding and abetting manslaughter

In a plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder dismissed

Evening Standard

Ex-Minneapolis cop pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd’s death

His guilty plea comes a week before the two-year anniversary of Floyd's murder.

Axios

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd’s killing

Thomas Lane, 38, is one of four men who were indicted in connection with the murder of George Floyd

The Independent UK

Ex-cop pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd’s death

A former Minneapolis police officer has pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd

The Independent UK

Picture books with a message

Of course kids want a good story and engaging pictures. But there's nothing wrong with a lesson, too. These 10 picture books — most with a Minnesota connection — celebrate nature, applaud diversity and protest racism, especially the murder of George Floyd.

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AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets

A new, 63-page IRS tax filing shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. ended its last fiscal year with nearly $42 million in net assets

The Independent UK

Biden preps high-stakes police reform executive order

The second anniversary of George Floyd's murder on May 25 will renew attention on police reform.

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The Guardian - US

Civil rights lawyer Crump: investigate Buffalo shooting as domestic terrorism

‘We can’t sugarcoat it,’ leading civil rights attorney says of shooting that killed 10 people

Salon

Black lives and Black death

Marc Lamont Hill on how George Floyd's martyrdom changed America, and why cops and prisons can't deliver justice

The Independent UK

Minnesota GOP reconvenes to back candidate for governor

Minnesota Republicans have reconvened to endorse a candidate to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, a day after delegates picked political outsider Jim Schultz to try to unseat Attorney General Keith Ellison

The Independent UK

Wisconsin schoolgirl, 12, charged after off-duty cop knelt on her neck while breaking up fight

Off-duty Kenosha police officer Shawn Guetschow was filmed kneeling on the girl’s neck while breaking up fight

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Chicago Sun-Times

Reshaped play, reshaped country key to the relevance of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

“We can only hope that [audiences] learn something, that they leave the theater more empathetic,” says actor Yeagel T. Welch, who stars as Tom Robinson.

The Independent UK

Ex-police constable facing jail over string of racist WhatsApp messages

Former prison officer James Watts admitted sending 10 grossly offensive to ex-colleagues who worked at a Warwickshire jail.

The Guardian - US

Prepare for McCarthy-era crackdowns on pro-choice protesters

Conservatives and corporate media pundits want to use a Red Scare statute to arrest people demonstrating against the looming anti-abortion victory

WEKU

Many know how George Floyd died. A new biography centers on how he lived

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa about their new book, His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

WEKU

Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?

The NY Times did an exhaustive survey of the Fox News host's broadcasts. Reporter Nicholas Confessore says Carlson's show is based on ideas that were once "caged in a dark corner of American life."

Tribune News Service

Former Kansas State student steps down from white nationalist organization amid rift

A former Kansas State student who left the university and became the “right-hand guy” for the head of a white nationalist organization has stepped down as the treasurer of its foundation as its leader remains under federal investigation in connection with the Capitol insurrection.

Evening Standard

Dina Asher-Smith is harder, better, faster, stronger

Dina Asher-Smith is more than the fastest British woman ever. She tells Shannon Mahanty about speaking out on George Floyd, flirting with the fashionistas and daring to bare her muscles

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