Estes Funeral Chapel and its CEO were recently fined a combined $90,000 for violations that included allowing an unlicensed assistant to prepare a body for burial.
Top Senate Democrat hopeful deal will be reached on policing reform
From CNN s Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a news conference on April 20. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN this morning that he’s hopeful a deal can be reached on policing reform in the next several weeks, and he’s instructed Democratic Sen. Cory Booker to “see what he can get done.”
Asked if qualified immunity was the last major sticking point, he said to ask Sen. Booker about the details.
Booker has been working on a compromise deal with GOP Sen. Rick Scott that may allow for police departments to be sued in civil trials for excessive use of force, while still protecting individual officers.
Police killings: He s handled some of Minnesota s most high-profile deaths. Today, he s hosting Daunte Wright s funeral CNN 4 hrs ago
For three decades, Tracy Wesley has met people on life s most difficult days.
He runs Estes Funeral Chapel in Minneapolis one of only two Black-owned funeral homes in Minnesota. And he s handled some of the Twin Cities most high-profile deaths: George Floyd, Jamar Clark and now Daunte Wright.
In his line of work, Wesley says he is not bothered by people who naturally pass or transition but is troubled by police killings. Not only have you lost, you re suffering a loss that was unnecessary, he said. There needs to be change because the system is racist, he said. I am afraid it (police killings) is never going to go away.