Here at the networks of nbc news. Good night. And just like that, we are back on the air and we are doing so to update you on the rolling and breaking news situation in Brooklyn Center minnesota. A northern suburb of the twin cities where tonight for the second night, we saw violence in the streets. We saw protesters outside Police Headquarters and then a phalanx of Police Officers using stun grenades using multiple volleys of tear gas and using at one point lines of officers in body armor. You see them there, methodically moving forward to disperse the crowd. For the most part, at around 10 30, 11 eastern time, 9 30 or ten local time in minnesota folks started to break up and go home but we should emphasize all of this is because a young man named dante rights should by all accounts be alive today after an encounter with the police this weekends that resulted in the opposite. He is dead, a veteran officer, a 26 year veteran of the force is tonight receiving all of the scrutiny she des
BOISEÂ â Local activist Ty Werenka is challenging a Boise noise control ordinance that he says is unconstitutional and a tool to chill free speech, after Boise Police officers ticketed him for using a megaphone during an April protest in downtown Boise.
On April 17, officers cited Ty Werenka, who marched to protest the April 11 killing of Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center (Minnesota) Police officer. The $156 ticket noted that Werenka violated a noise control ordinance because he used a megaphone during the march. Now the activist is challenging the citation in court, alleging the city code violates First Amendment protections on speech.Â
Boise Police cited a protester for using a megaphone He says that was unconstitutional ktvb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I have again found myself wondering about things where the mind of an old white guy is not supposed to go. My family thinks I have gone silent. My friends and loyal readers seem to think I have slipped into the melancholy of a frustrated old man.
Just for the record, I have never experienced melancholy nor is silence a state of being I am familiar with.
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I am sitting at the confluence of the far too familiar rivers of Racism and Injustice. The tributaries of Liberal and Conservative. The estuaries of Black and White. The raging rapids of anarchists and supremacists of every shade from God s own pallette.