Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck while J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane held Floyd on the ground as Floyd said repeatedly he couldn't breathe. Tou Thao kept people back who begged the officers to get up and he did not intervene. Kueng, Lane and Thao also face state charges of aiding and abetting Floyd's murder in May of 2020.
Authorities don’t yet have suspects but don’t believe the person or people who are responsible for the killings come from the area or are still in the area, he added.
Asked about a motive, he said, “That one is a mystery. We do not know a motive yet.”
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Sanford Health in Fargo-Moorhead is scaling back surgeries in response to demand for COVID-19 care. Patients with and without the virus are straining the system’s hospital beds.
The Moorhead police department has struggled to recruit a more diverse force. The police chief is turning to a new cadet program designed to identify and train students who might grow into a career as police officers.
Tropical Storm Nicholas slowed to a crawl over the Houston area Tuesday after making landfall earlier as a hurricane, knocking out power to a half-million homes and businesses and dumping more than a foot of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The share of Americans living in poverty rose slightly as the COVID-19 pandemic shook the economy last year, but massive relief payments pumped out by Congress eased hardship for many, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
Census experts with the American Statistical Association have been evaluating the state population numbers used to reallocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade.
A St. Louis County commissioner wants other counties to join in pressuring the state legislature to take stronger action to address the threat to white-tailed deer from chronic wasting disease.
Simone Gold isn't alone. NPR found other physicians who retained their licenses despite spreading misinformation online and to the media about effective COVID-19 vaccines and unproven treatments.
