Memphis's skateboarders pushing down Main Street in honor of Tyre Nichols, who was known for his skills at parks here and in Sacramento.
The skating scene here is more scattered than Sac's, skaters say, but they told me they still feel like they lost a part of their family.
Police car just drove by demonstrators on Classon Ave in Brooklyn -- some of whom had been throwing cement -- and opened passenger side door into a protester.
At the Kyle Rittenhouse trial this morning, the judge asked, given that it's Veterans Day, if there were any veterans in the room.
The only one appeared to be Rittenhouse's next witness, a use of force expert. So the judge asked everyone in the court to applaud for veterans.
George Floyd's girlfriend, Courteney Ross, reacts to Derek Chauvin being convicted of murder in Minneapolis:
"I know that he gave his life so that other people's cases can get reopened."
"All three counts!" people chanted outside the courthouse in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges.
Lots of tears, hugs and chanting here.
Kyle Rittenhouse, in his first interview, with
@TuckerCarlson
, says of prosecutors:
"If they did this to me, imagine what they could've done to a person of color who doesn't maybe have the resources I do, or [if] it's not widely publicized like my case."
NEW: I spent months reporting on the death of Antonio Tsialas, a freshman at Cornell who was last seen alive at a frat party before his body was discovered at the bottom of a gorge.
His phone was never found, and exactly what happened remains a mystery.
Dramatic video of a Sonoma County helicopter unit rescuing two firefighters surrounded by the
#WoodwardFire
in Marin County last night.
"Those firefighters would certainly have perished" if not for rescue,
@sonomasheriff
Mark Essick said.
Read more:
The husband of one of two teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting has died of a heart attack amid his grief,
@byEduardoMedina
reports.
Joe Garcia had just left flowers at the memorial for his wife, Irma Garcia.
Breaking: Albuquerque mosque president tells
@AvaSasani
that the authorities told him the suspect in the killings of four Muslim men is Sunni Muslim and targeted the victims because he was angry over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim.
BREAKING: Prosecutors drop murder charges against Curtis Flowers, the Black man tried 6 times by a white prosecutor who illegally kept Black people off of the jury.
"I am finally free from the injustice that left me locked in a box for 23 years," he said.
I'd never seen anything like this -- city workers in a Minneapolis suburb have fortified the home of the officer who killed Daunte Wright, adding cement barriers and fencing to all sides.
(third pic is by
@victorjblue
)
In new court filing, public defenders for the suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado gay club that left 5 people dead say that their client is non-binary and that "they use they/them pronouns." The lawyers refer to their client as Mx. Anderson Aldrich.
One last interesting thing on the new Breonna Taylor tapes was how engaged the 12 grand jurors who examined the case were.
They peppered detectives with questions, pointed out contradictions, and made it clear they cared about finding the truth.
BREAKING: Georgia police arrested a white father and son and charged them with murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man whose death in February has recently attracted widespread outrage.
NEW: Veteran lung doctor testifies in Derek Chauvin trial:
• George Floyd had brain injury 4mins before Chauvin lifted knee
• Knee was on neck 90% of time, 3+mins after last breath
• Fentanyl didn't affect breathing
• Healthy person 'would have died'
I spent a couple hours stacking wood with Alex Murdaugh's older brother, Randy, two days after Alex was sentenced to life in prison.
Here's what he says he knows: Alex is a liar and a bad person and seems to know more about the murder of his wife and son.
NEW: The world saw a police officer shoot and kill 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant last month as she was about to stab another woman.
But what came before?
@EllenBarryNYT
@NYT_Wright
and I went to Columbus, Ohio, to find out.
In 16 seconds, a 16-year-old shot five students and himself at a California high school.
Two teens are dead, and hundreds of parents' nightmares were made real.
(w/
@JillCowan
@amy_harmon
+more)
• The only officer who has been charged (with endangering Breonna's neighbors) said he thought he saw someone inside armed with an AR-15. No such weapon was found.
He also said he had expected one unarmed woman w/ no criminal record to be home alone.
NEW on California fires:
• 771,000 acres burned (larger than Rhode Island)
• 119,000 ppl ordered to flee homes
• 560 fires across state (23 "major")
• Two fires are 7th & 10th-largest in state history
• Aid requested from other states & even Australia
VIDEO: As the
#Kenosha
police were protecting the two "Proud Boys" members from protesters, one officer sprayed Ashley Dorelus, a documentary filmmaker, in the face with a chemical agent.
She told me she swatted his hand because he touched her breast as he was pushing her away.
"The department had the same number of officers in place as on a routine day."
U.S. Capitol Police were overrun and "left naked" by poor planning,
@ctlong1
@MikeBalsamo1
@LisaMascaro
report.
At least nine of the twelve jurors who convicted Alex Murdaugh also came to his sentencing today, and they walked out of the courthouse to applause after he was sentenced to life in prison.
@nytimes
Some of the main revelations:
• Officer who FBI says fired fatal shot: "It’s like a surreal thing. If you told me I didn’t do something at that time, I’d believe you. If you told me I did do something, I’d probably believe you, too."
Twitter has added a notice to
@realDonaldTrump
's tweet about
#Minneapolis
George Floyd protests, saying the tweet violates its rules but that keeping it available may be in the public's interest.
You can now only quote-tweet the post (not retweet without comment).
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend said he was "scared to death" when he and Breonna asked who was at door and heard nothing (cops say they announced).
When officers burst through the door, he fired his gun once before seeing who was even there, he said.
BREAKING: Minneapolis police shot and killed a man tonight after pulling him over.
It's the first time a Minneapolis police officer has killed someone since George Floyd's death in May, and it happened less than a mile from where he was killed.
I'm in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, for the sixth night of protests following an officer's killing of Daunte Wright.
People are again bringing groceries and other basic goods to residents of the nearby apartments, and others are cooking on a grill.
I'll be posting updates here.
Michigan's governor reinstated a state of emergency after protesters — some armed — flooded the State Capitol building to protest her stay-at-home order,
@JaceyFortin
reports.
#Rittenhouse
jurors gave the first defense witness Thursday a round of applause. They did after Judge Schroeder asked if anyone in court had served in the military. When John Black said from the stand he had, the judge called for the applause in recognition of Veterans Day.
Jimmy Aldaoud had lived in Detroit since 1979, when he was 6 months old.
Then he was deported to Iraq, a country he'd never set foot in. He didn't know Arabic. He died two months later.
"They told me I had to come back to work."
That was what Annie Grant texted her children before returning to a Tyson plant despite having a fever.
She died this morning, one of three workers to die in recent days,
@mirjordan
@itscaitlinhd
report.
KIM POTTER VERDICT:
• Jury convicts ex-officer of 1st-degree manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright
• Judge orders her immediately jailed and she is led out in handcuffs
• Standard sentence is 7 years. She will be sentenced in February
"I feel like the creature that I drew kind of resembles the craziness of politics and the world right now," 14-year-old Hudson Rowan said of his "I Voted" sticker design for Ulster County, N.Y., that has garnered 93% of the votes.
@HurubieMeko
reports:
I'm in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where things were pretty calm until two members of the Proud Boys arrived.
Protesters shouted them away from a park and continued to follow them until the police scooped them up in a car and sped away.
Scoop: Karen McDougal, the model who alleged a 10-month affair with Donald Trump, is suing Fox News for defamation over comments made by Tucker Carlson on his show.
Alex Murdaugh led out of a South Carolina courtroom moments ago, after the disgraced lawyer was convicted of murdering his wife and son.
He did not respond to shouted questions from reporters and onlookers.
The latest:
This was on Classon Ave. between Gates and Quincy. Protester who was struck by door told me he was OK.
At least one woman reported being tear-gassed from a passing car. People were flushing her eyes out with water.
BREAKING: The chief of police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, says they have detained someone who is the "primary suspect" in the murders of Muslim men and who was driving the car that police had been searching for.
We tracked down the vehicle believed to be involved in a recent murder of a Muslim man in Albuquerque. The driver was detained and he is our primary suspect for the murders. We will update the media later this afternoon.
The answer: Years of turbulence in foster care, a grandmother who tried to keep the family together, and claims of abuse at her mother's home.
Seconds before Ma'Khia was shot, her sister told me, she was infuriated by a woman who spit at her grandmother.
NEW: Two Buffalo police officers have been suspended without pay, hours after they shoved a 75yo. protester to the ground.
The man is in serious but stable condition,
@gettinviggy
reports.
MORE:
NEW: Some of the millions of Americans out of work and at risk of losing their homes say they are growing frustrated with Congress's failure to quickly reach a deal.
And many worry that even when they do, it will not be enough.
15 hours of newly-released audio from the Breonna Taylor case reveal chaotic, conflicting accounts from people on either side of her apartment door — the one officers knocked off its hinges in March before killing her.
In today's
@nytimes
:
Amazing pictures here of a Thanksgiving that no one could have pictured.
The holes that Covid-19 has torn so viciously in millions of lives were glaring on Thanksgiving: houses too quiet, dinner tables too empty, loved ones irrevocably missing.
NEW: Washington D.C. is 46% Black, but 75% of city residents killed by Covid have been Black.
As D.C. hit 1,000 deaths this week, the mayor mourned the disparity.
Hours later, she had to announce that her sister was among the victims.
(w/
@campbellnyt
)
NEW from Kenosha: It's rare that the person at the center of police violence protests is alive to tell their own story.
But Jacob Blake survived, and has begun to speak.
NEW: The gunman left many warnings that were spotted by young people — but not reported — before his massacre at a Uvalde, Texas, school.
"He finna shoot something up," one wrote after seeing Salvador Ramos post guns on Instagram.
(red = my redactions)
Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Daunte's 2-year-old son, Daunte Jr., says she is now a single mother — "not by choice, but by force."
"Kim Potter took my son's best friend away from him," she says.
NEW: Calling on election officials to "count every vote," protesters marched through the streets of several American cities as Trump mounted an aggressive effort to challenge the vote count.
(w/
@ByMikeBaker
@viaSimonRomero
+ more)
Breaking: The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a school in Uvalde, Texas, texted an online friend yesterday morning saying "I just shot my grandma in her head" and "Ima go shoot up a elementary school," per texts shared with me.
More:
NEW: Federal agents are at a home in Nashville where a Google Street View image from 2019 (left) shows an R.V. in the yard that appears identical to the one police say was detonated in the explosion (right).
The latest via
@nytimes
:
When Trump said ppl should not fear Covid, he was speaking to Americans whose battle w/ the virus was nothing like his own.
A woman in Chicago remembered how she struggled to get tests.
A Brooklyn woman recalled spending $4K on meds for her dying father.
Randy Murdaugh, a lawyer, says he accepts the jury's verdict. And he believes that there's more that Alex isn't saying about June 7, 2021. He's just not sure what that is.
"He’s not telling the truth, in my opinion, about everything there."
(no paywall)
BREAKING: The U.S. attorney in D.C. says prosecutors are weighing sedition charges related to the Capitol riot and have already charged 70 people with crimes, a number he said he expects to rise into the "hundreds."
I'm in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, where about 100 people are still protesting in the street after a 20-year-old man was reportedly shot by the police and then died.
NEW: Cops say DNA links a county politician in Las Vegas to the fatal stabbing of Jeff German, a reporter who wrote articles exposing his misdeeds.
Cops haven't found a weapon but have arrested the official, Robert Telles, on suspicion of murder.
NEW: Bryan Kohberger, now charged in Idaho murders, was pulled over twice in Indiana on Dec. 15 as he drove with his dad from WSU to Pennsylvania for winter break.
Here's just-released body cam footage of the first stop, which the cop said was for following too closely.
"I’m just a mother wanting to know what happened to her son," Antonio's mom told me. "We don’t care about anything else other than knowing what happened to Antonio so that it does not happen again."
There's so much to this story. Please read if you can:
NEW: 11 of 12 jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial were ready to convict right away.
One, a white woman, wasn't sure.
But after several hours in which jurors watched videos of George Floyd's death and drew a timeline on a whiteboard, she voted guilty too.
BREAKING: Grand jury has indicted former Baltimore police officer Arthur Williams on three charges: first-degree assault, second-degree assault and officer misconduct.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest, SAO Marilyn Mosby says.
"We did it!" writes Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose cellphone video of George Floyd's death challenged the Minneapolis police narrative and ignited global protests.
Skaters are taking turns trying to land tricks on a sculpture at the MLK Reflection Park at an event in honor of Tyre Nichols, a skater and photographer.
Mark Richards, a lawyer for Kyle Rittenhouse, tells me and
@juliebosman
what he thought when he looked at the 12 jurors today as they were about to head home for a third night with no verdict.
"I thought, they're 6-6 split. That’s what I thought."
Trump’s vital signs were concerning on Saturday as doctors mounted an aggressive effort to treat him,
@peterbakernyt
@maggieNYT
report.
Two people said he had trouble breathing on Friday and was given supplemental oxygen before he was hospitalized.
NEW: The longest-serving Minneapolis police officer, who joined the force in 1985 and has led the homicide unit since 2008, rebuked Derek Chauvin's treatment of George Floyd today.
"Totally unnecessary," he said.
Day 5.
(w/
@tarangoNYT
@NeilMacFarquhar
)
"We missed this great opportunity to study our tablets, our heritage," the Iraqi culture minister said, adding that Cornell had not consulted Iraq on its research of the tablets. "This is a kind of bitterness in our mouth."
From North Port, Florida:
Bill Ealahan canceled his home & flood insurance to save $ when Covid reduced his hours. Then Hurricane Ian ripped apart his mobile home, crushing his enclosed porch as he sat afraid on the couch.
He's not sure what to do next.
I'm reminded of what a discouraged Upton Sinclair wrote in 1906 after readers of "The Jungle" cared more about the unsanitary food practices than bosses' abuse of workers:
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Not long ago, Aaliyah Gonzalez was celebrating her high school graduation. She'd been working extra shifts at Starbucks, saving up for a car.
Then she was killed at a Baltimore block party, one of 30 people shot — more than sit in most school classrooms.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ja'Niah Bryant, 15, told me her sister Ma'Khia wanted nothing more than to get out of foster care.
"That was her biggest thing. She didn't want to be in the foster care system until she was 18."
At the party, freshmen were led by frat brothers through Christmas-themed rooms filled with alcohol and urged to drink.
As many as 100 people may have been at the party, but no one said they saw Antonio leave. Some frat brothers never spoke to the police.
I usually try to avoid tweeting about the news media, but tonight there are three courageous student journalists from
@themacweekly
in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who kept reporting even as the police rushed in.
Scuffle between police and protesters dressed in black, some of who identified with antifa, outside
@DemndFreeSpeech
rally at about 12:40pm on corner of 14th St and Pennsylvania Ave. in D.C.
[deleted earlier video bc i had accidentally omitted parts of scuffle -- sorry]
For the first time, a company has given me an email address that doesn't include my entire, 23-character name, and thus I can finally give it out over the phone: nickbb
@nytimes
.com
LATEST on tragic, grisly killings of 4 Idaho students:
• Cops are stumped, don't know where killer might be
• No answers on how someone could stab 4 without roommates waking up
• Five people have been ruled out as suspects
w/
@ByMikeBaker
(no paywall)
When a campus police officer reviewed drone footage of the gorge and saw what he thought might be a phone, the police never went to look for it.
By that time, in winter, the area was too icy to reach. But they never went back when it thawed.
NEW:
@PeteButtigieg
's wine cave fundraiser was criticized by
@ewarren
and other dems last night.
The cave's billionaire owner told me "it's just not fair."
Breaking: police say they've arrested Muhammad Syed, 51, and charged him with two of the killings, which they describe as possibly being the result of "an interpersonal conflict."
Another major piece of this is what's NOT on the tapes:
• The Kentucky attorney general said prosecutors' statements and jurors' deliberations "were not recorded, as they are not evidence." But it leaves a big question about what jurors were told.
New: Years before its sub went missing in the Atlantic, OceanGate faced warnings from experts about its plan to launch a new hallmark mission taking wealthy passengers on a tour of the Titanic's wreckage.
(No paywall. w/
@jggross
@annabettss
@ByMikeBaker
)
The elementary school where a gunman killed 14 children and a teacher was scheduled to have its last day on Thursday.
574 students between 2nd & 4th grades attend the school, 90% of whom are Hispanic and about 90% of whom are "economically disadvantaged."