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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Minneapolis to pay George Floyd’s family $27m in police custody death lawsuit

George Floyd Mural

City agrees to settle civil lawsuit with George Floyd’s family during jury selection for trial of Derek Chauvin, former police officer charged with murder.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter Launches relief fund for Black people during pandemic

Black Lives Matter Survival Fund artwork

As Congress delays in passing COVID-19 relief legislation, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) and BLM Grassroots unveiled a $3 million, nationwide fund to assist Black people who are struggling financially during the pandemic.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Police deployed potentially lethal chemical during Black Lives Matter protests

Federal officers walk through tear gas

Even if federal agents and police never again fill the streets with clouds of toxic zinc chloride, the consequences of its prolific deployment may haunt cities for many years to come.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – New Orleans EMS creates Black Lives Matter pin

New Orleans EMS pin

New Orleans EMS has created a custom pin to show support for the city’s Black community “in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and Black History Month.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – BLM ad condemns White supremacy ahead of Trump impeachment trial

image from Black Lives Matter ad

A new Black Lives Matter ad is calling for an end to White supremacy using footage of the January 6 Capitol riots and historic Ku Klux Klan rallies to pressure lawmakers to impeach and convict former President Donald Trump.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Karl Walker, 29, Shot And Killed By CHP Officers In Dixon

Karl Walker

Authorities have finally confirmed that Karl Walker is the man shot and killed by California Highway Patrol officers in Dixon early in the morning, January 31st.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize

The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way it calls for systemic change has spread around the world. In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns

Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black men and women nationwide, an NPR investigation has found.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters

Police in riot gear spray tear gas in the face of a single kneeling protester

New data from a non-profit that monitors political violence around the world shows Police in the US are far more aggressive with left leaning protesters, regardless if the protests remain peaceful or not.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Racial Double Standard of Capitol Police Draws Outcry

Black Lives Matter activists across the country expressed outrage at what they said was a tepid response from law enforcement officers to mostly white protesters, saying it stood in stark contrast to the aggressive tactics they have endured for years.

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