Kneeling on the neck of someone who is handcuffed and in the prone position is “top-tier, deadly” force and should not be used, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide division testified Friday at Derek Chauvin's murder trial. More
April 2, 2021
The first days of testimony at the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death were dominated by witnesses to his arrest and countless videos that forced them to relive the trauma of it all over again. More
April 2, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities said Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German heiress and served more than three years behind bars for defrauding New York banks and hotels. Sorokin, who finagled her way into the Manhattan elite using the name Anna Delvey, […] More
April 2, 2021
CARMEL, Ind. (Scripps News Indianapolis) — Three people have been arrested in connection with a January homicide investigation in Carmel, according to police. Carmel Police Department officers found Francis Kelley dead inside his home on January 18, according to a press release from police. An investigation found his death was the result of a homicide. […] More
April 2, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police supervisory sergeant who was on duty the night George Floyd died testified that he believes the officers who restrained Floyd could have ended it after he stopped resisting. >>>How to Watch: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin David Pleoger testified Thursday at the trial of since-fired […] More
April 2, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s girlfriend tearfully told a jury Thursday the story of how they met — at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard with “this great, deep Southern voice, raspy” — and how they both struggled mightily with an addiction to opioids. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage […] More
April 1, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s girlfriend cried on the witness stand Thursday as she told the story of how they first met in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where Floyd was a security guard with “this great Southern voice, raspy.” She also recounted how they both struggled with opioid addiction. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court […] More
April 1, 2021
10 months after George Floyd died in a confrontation with four Minneapolis Police officers, the first of those officers, Derek Chauvin, faces a jury. More
April 1, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, has been found guilty in the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd, Jr. DAY 16 4/20/21 After more than 10 hours, a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts: Count 1: Second-degree unintentional murder Count 2: Third-degree murder Count 3: Second-degree […] More
April 1, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After the ambulance took George Floyd away, the Minneapolis officer who had pinned his knee on the Black man’s neck defended himself to a bystander by saying Floyd was “a sizable guy” and “probably on something,” according to police video played in court Wednesday. >>>READ MORE: MN v. Chauvin: Daily Trial Highlights The video […] More
March 31, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The convenience store cashier who was handed a counterfeit $20 bill by George Floyd — setting in motion the Black man’s ill-fated encounter with police — testified Wednesday that he watched Floyd’s arrest outside with “disbelief — and guilt.” “If I would’ve just not tooken the bill, this could’ve been avoided,” 19-year-old Christopher Martin […] More
March 31, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The convenience store cashier who sold cigarettes to George Floyd and was handed a counterfeit $20 bill in return took the stand Wednesday at Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial as prosecutors laid out the sequence of events that led to Floyd’s ill-fated arrest outside. Prosecutors also played store security video showing Floyd in Cup Foods for […] More
March 31, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Mexican man was charged Tuesday with coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was struck by a big-rig after crossing the border into California. Jose Cruz Noguez, 47, of Mexicali, was arrested Monday night as he crossed into the United States at the Calexico […] More
March 31, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis firefighter who voiced frustration at being prevented from using her EMT training to help George Floyd will be back on the stand Wednesday in the trial of the fired police officer charged in Floyd’s death. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Genevieve Hansen, one […] More
March 31, 2021
HENDRY COUNTY, Fla. (Scripps News Fort Myers) — “ A human a very kind-hearted human, like all of us should be anyway, and it shouldn’t have happened, not that way, not that way,” said Lemetris Jackson. That’s how the family of Bolman Slater, described her in a September 2020 press conference at the Hendry County […] More
March 31, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Onlookers grew increasingly angry as they begged Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck, but Chauvin would not let up, and another officer forced back members of the crowd who tried to intervene, witnesses testified Tuesday at Chauvin’s murder trial. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek […] More
March 30, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who was among the onlookers shouting at a Minneapolis police officer to get off George Floyd last May testified Tuesday that he called 911 after paramedics took Floyd away, “because I believed I witnessed a murder.” Donald Williams, a former wrestler who said he was trained in mixed martial arts, […] More
March 30, 2021
PHOENIX, Ariz. (Scripps News Tucson) — Investigators say twenty years ago a Scottsdale man, killed his wife and children—exploded their house—and seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth. But Scottsdale Police—and the FBI have not stopped trying to find Robert Fisher. “This case is unique, just in the heinousness of it and […] More
March 30, 2021
CINCINNATI (Scripps News Cincinnati) – In March 1985, Linda Lee Couch was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her husband, Walter Douglas Couch. On March 30, 2021, she once again has the opportunity to prove to the Ohio Parole Board that she should be released. Investigators said Linda fatally shot Walter in […] More
March 30, 2021
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge should deny a request to be released by a Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing a classmate to please the internet horror character Slender Man because she remains a danger to others, a prosecutor argued in response to the petition for conditional release. Earlier this month, Anissa Weier, 19, asked […] More
March 30, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Oral arguments have been set for May 25 before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of […] More
March 30, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who was among onlookers shouting at a Minneapolis police officer to get off George Floyd last May was to continue testifying Tuesday, a day after he described seeing Floyd struggle for air and his eyes rolling back into his head, saying he saw Floyd “slowly fade away … like a […] More
March 30, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The video of George Floyd gasping for breath was essentially Exhibit A as the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee on the Black man’s neck went on trial Monday on charges of murder and manslaughter. Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell showed the jurors the footage at the earliest opportunity, during opening statements, after telling […] More
March 29, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Sex trafficking charges were added Monday to the indictment against financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend as prosecutors alleged that she groomed a 14-year-old girl to recruit other young females in the early 2000s to provide “sexualized massages” to Epstein in return for cash. The charges contained in a superseding indictment returned by […] More
March 29, 2021
A Michigan judge on Monday ordered three men to stand trial in a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her coronavirus restrictions. Jackson County District Court Judge Michael Klaeren ruled there was enough evidence and bound over Paul Bellar, Joe Morrison and Pete Musico to circuit court to stand trial. “The defendants […] More
March 29, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd went on trial Monday, with prosecutors promptly showing the jury the video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for several minutes as onlookers yelled at Chauvin to get off and Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s […] More
March 29, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One prospective juror’s voice quivered as she told attorneys during jury selection that she feared for her family’s safety if chosen for the panel that will decide the fate of a white former police officer charged with killing George Floyd. When the judge excused her, the woman exhaled in relief. >>>HOW TO WATCH: […] More
March 29, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Opening statements are set for Monday in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin’s trial is expected to last about four weeks and it will be streamed online. >>>HOW TO WATCH: Court TV’s Live Coverage of MN v. Derek Chauvin Floyd, who […] More
March 29, 2021
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (Scripps News Richmond) — Nearly nine years after a security guard was found beaten to death near his crashed patrol vehicle, investigators say they have new leads and are confident they will solve the case. “I absolutely believe it will get solved, but only with the help of the community,” said Chesterfield […] More
March 26, 2021
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Black man who was paralyzed after he was shot in the back by a white police officer in southeastern Wisconsin filed a civil lawsuit Thursday accusing the officer of excessive force. Jacob Blake Jr. was shot by Kenosha Officer Rusten Sheskey in August while Blake was about to get into an […] More
March 26, 2021
