Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin appealed his second degree murder conviction last year to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Chauvin appealed claiming that due to media coverage, he was unable to receive a fair trial. Today they refused his appeal. Chauvin will serve an over 22-year sentence – 15 years behind bars and 7.5 on…
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“How Exactly Was The Officer-Involved?” – Interview With Kit O’Connell
Become a Patron! This week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I speak with journalist Kit O’Connell about the media’s use of language around police violence and shootings. The favored phrases of ‘unbiased’ news outlets around these incidents are often in a passive tone – not wanting to lay blame on anyone in law…
Charles McMillian, Witness to George Floyd’s Murder Speaks to Visu.News
“Everybody got pay and including me, watch a man die and watching me right now, waking up to the first thing I hear is Mr. Floyd is saying mom, they killing me in the street and I lost my mom two years ago. Devastated and it hurts.” Charles McMillian Become a Patron! Charles McMillian witnessed…
Photos: Trump’s Wall in Washington DC
According to media reports, Trump will take down the over one mile of fencing that has been surrounding the White House for the last week. That’s a positive. But unfortunately that means that the signs and art that has been covering the ‘wall’ will also have to be taken down. In my experience that usually…
PHOTOS: Washington DC #BLM Still in the Streets
The White House seems to keep moving the fence father and father back, now taking over the entirety of Lafayette Park pushing the protests literally into the streets. The big protest happens on Saturday where they expect huge numbers of people gathering along the road now painted in huge yellow letters that spell out BLACK…
Photos from Lancaster, PA’s Protest Against Police Violence
Lancaster, PA – May 31, 2020 Text by Zach D Roberts, Photos by Paige Durborow Most of the coverage of the protests that have sprung up across the nation after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers while in their custody have been of larger cities. But even smaller towns have seen incredible…