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Jury ends 1st day, no verdict for 3 cops in Floyd killing

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jurors at the federal trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights went home Wednesday without reaching a verdict. It was the first day of deliberations in the case against J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. They’re charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when he was pinned to the ground for 9 1/2 minutes as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into 46-year-old Black man’s neck. Kueng and Thao are also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the May 25, 2020, killing. Jurors will resume deliberations Thursday. All 12 members of the jury appear to be white.

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Judge seals juror names in 3 cops’ trial over Floyd killing

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights has sealed the names of the jurors for at least 10 years. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson issued the order around five hours after the jury began deliberations Wednesday. He wrote that the court assured prospective jurors that their personal information would be kept confidential. He said federal law allows him to do so “in the interests of justice.” He said this is “clearly” such a case due to the “significant public attention this trial has generated.”

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Minnesota bills to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in more products

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota House committee on Wednesday considered three bills that would ban a family of chemicals known as PFAS from cosmetics, cookware and ski wax. The family of chemicals are sometimes called “forever chemicals” because they persist in the environment. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a broad term for manmade chemicals that were designed to make products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease and water. Opponents of the bill contend that the language in the bills describing the chemicals is too broad and would apply to hundreds with different properties. All three bills passed in committee and head for their next committee stop.

GIRL KILLED-SUSPECT ARRESTED

Suspect arrested in May shooting death of Minneapolis girl

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suspect has been arrested a suspect in the May 2021 death of a 9-year-old Minneapolis girl who was shot while jumping on an outdoor trampoline. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says that a 19-year-old Minneapolis man is facing a second degree murder charge for killing Trinity Ottoson-Smith. Investigators believe the victim was an unintended target of a gang-related drive-by shooting. Ottoson-Smith was playing in the backyard of a friend’s home on May 15 when she was shot. She died from her injuries 12 days later. The girl was one of three children shot in Minneapolis last summer within a span of several weeks. The suspect has not been formally charged.

POLICE SHOOTING-MINNEAPOLIS

2nd teen charged in probe that led to Amir Locke’s death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A second teen has been arrested in the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Amir Locke, a Black 22-year-old man, while executing a search warrant. A 16-year-old boy is charged in Ramsey County juvenile court with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. Locke’s 17-year-old cousin has also been charged in the Jan. 10 killing of Otis Elder in St. Paul. Police searching for suspects in Elder’s death entered the Minneapolis apartment where Locke was staying without knocking on Feb. 2. Body camera video shows an officer kick a sofa, and Locke is seen wrapped in a blanket holding a pistol. Three shots are heard, and the video ends.

ATHLETICS-RACIAL TAUNTS

St. Louis Park won’t play New Prague due to alleged taunts

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis high school has informed New Prague athletics officials that it will not compete in any further games against its teams this year because of racial taunting. St. Louis Park athletics director Andrew Ewald sent an email to his counterpart at New Prague which said the ban “will continue until the harm that was caused is repaired and we are assured that any of our stakeholders, most importantly our students, will not be victimized by racism by any New Prague stakeholder in the future.” Ewald said students in St. Louis Park High School’s boys hockey program were subjected to racist taunts Feb. 15 while in New Prague, a small community southwest of the Twin Cities.

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Ahmaud Arbery’s hometown hopes for change after convictions

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Back-to-back convictions of the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery have bolstered civil rights activists who viewed the case as a test of the criminal justice system. A jury returned federal hate crime convictions against father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan on Tuesday, the day before the second anniversary of Arbery’s death. The verdicts came three months after the same white men were convicted of murder in a Georgia state court. Arbery was 25 years old when he was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in a subdivision outside Brunswick, Georgia, on Feb. 23, 2020.

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Who are the jurors in the federal trial over Floyd killing?

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Twelve people began deliberations Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis officers who are charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 killing of the 46-year-old Black man. All of the eight women and four men on the jury appear to be white. Two alternates remained before deliberations began, including a man who appears to be of Asian descent. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson put them on call in case they’re needed later. The jury includes seven people from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, as well five from counties in southern Minnesota.