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In this file photo, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, right, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., talk before a news briefing on March 15, 2019, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Minnesota Dems anxious over defund-the-police plan to replace cops with counselors

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo speaks during a news conference accompanied by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in Minneapolis. Activists in Minneapolis are making a second attempt to get rid of the city's police department, more than a year after George Floyd's death at the hands of officers. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Minneapolis council seeks to abolish police with voter initiative

By Mohamed Ibrahim - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2021, file image taken from video, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks to the media at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. The judge who handled former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin's murder trial in George Floyd's death is being asked to reconsider his decision not to include trauma to child witnesses as one of the aggravating factors in determining Chauvin's sentence. Attorney General Ellison, in a filing Thursday, July 8, 2021, said Judge Peter Cahill's decision was wrong and risks further harming children at the scene by discounting their trauma. (Court TV via AP, Pool File)

Democrats allow violent crime to cripple Minnesota

By Doug Wardlow

Preschool children visit the site where George Floyd was murdered by then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, as the kids took a field trip to the memorial, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Derek Chauvin could face sentence of decades in prison for George Floyd’s murder

By Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

People dance in the streets and hold flags during a march for Winston Boogie Smith Jr. on Saturday, June 5, 2021, in Minneapolis. Smith was fatally shot Thursday by members of a U.S. Marshals task force.. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)

Minneapolis beset by protests for 3rd night over Black man killed by police

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A traffic sign signals directions around the monument at George Floyd Square, Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Minneapolis. Crews are removing concrete barriers as well as artwork, flowers and other memorial items from a Minneapolis intersection that has become a sprawling memorial to George Floyd. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)

Barriers removed, new ones go up, at George Floyd Square

By Mohamed Ibrahim - Associated Press

Police work the scene where an 8-year-old girl was killed and two adults were gunned down when someone shot into a car near the intersection of 47th street and Union Avenue during the Labor Day weekend Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Death toll rises in America’s cities because of progressives’ racist ideas

By Everett Piper

From left, Eliana Lord, Carly Mihovich, Stephanie Justice, and Nick Hansen, visiting from Columbia, S.C., take a photo at Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, after it reopens in a limited capacity in Washington, Monday, May 10, 2021. Fencing remains in place around the park which will allow the Secret Service to temporarily close the park as they deem necessary. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Park Police reopen Lafayette Square across from White House

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Brandon Mitchell, a juror in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, poses for a picture, Wednesday April 28, 2021, in Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Brandon Mitchell, Derek Chauvin juror who attended pre-trial rally, may jeopardize guilty verdict

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Mondale’s favorite place on Earth was St. Croix River

By MARY DIVINE - Associated Press

President Biden is pushing Congress to pass the PRO Act, nullifying right-to-work laws. “Send it to my desk so we can support the right to unionize,” he said. (Associated Press)

Joe Biden promotes federal alliance with labor unions

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Artist goes back in time to paint ‘Women of Faith’ portraits

By EUAN KERR - Associated Press

People rally outside the courthouse in Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, after the guilty verdicts were announced in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Activists take next step in push to replace Minneapolis PD

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM - Associated Press

Hazel Bryant is embraced after addressing a crowd with her anger at the Columbus Police over the shooting of her niece, Ma’Khia Bryant, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, near Legion Lane on the east side of Columbus, Ohio. (Brooke LaValley/Columbus Dispatch via AP)

1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 19, 2021, file image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, accompanied by defendant, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, speaks to the judge at the Hennepin County courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Prosecutors fought hard to add a third-degree murder charge against Chauvin, but a conviction on that charge alone could set up a problematic scenario for them. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

EXPLAINER: Can Chauvin get his convictions tossed on appeal?

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Daunte Wright's casket is removed from the hearse for funeral services behind an escort of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The 20-year-old Wright was killed by then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop on April 11. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Latest: Klobuchar seeks ‘true justice’ for Black Americans

Associated Press

In this image from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is taken into custody as his attorney Eric Nelson, left, watches, after his bail was revoked after he was found guilty on all three counts in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

Falls River police apologize for Facebook post about George Floyd; officer responsible reassigned

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland and acting U.S. Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman attend a service for slain U.S. Capitol Police officer William "Billy" Evans who lies in honor at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) ** FILE **

Justice Department to launch sweeping probe into Minneapolis Police Department

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb 24, 2006, file photo, Deborah Watts, left, and Ollie Gordon, right, both cousins of Emmett Till, accompany Principal Mary Rogers as they walk through a hallway at Emmett Louis Till Math &amp; Science Academy, in Chicago, honoring the 14-year-old former student. Till's lynching galvanized the civil rights movement. George Floyd, the Black Minneapolis man's killing by police sparked a worldwide call for racial justice. The deaths of Till and Floyd are separated by more than six decades, but their families feel a deep connection in their grief. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

George Floyd and Emmett Till families see parallels in loss

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press