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Five stories you need to know for April 12, 2021

Five stories you need to know for April 12, 2021 WorldViralMedia 30 Views • 4 years ago

Five stories to know for April 12: Protests erupt after Minneapolis shooting, Virginia police officer fired and sued, Derek Chauvin trial and UK ends lockdown.

1. Violent protests erupted after a Minneapolis shooting in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, was shot dead during a traffic stop. The unrest in Brooklyn Center came hours before the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, was set to resume in a courtroom less than 10 miles away on Monday.

2. One of two Virginia police officers was fired. The firing comes after U.S. Army officer Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit against the two police officers in federal court over what court papers say was a violent traffic stop on Dec. 5, 2020, where officers pointed their guns, knocked him to the ground, pepper sprayed him and "threatened to murder him.

3. Prosecutors will rest their case this week at the Derek Chauvin trial. The 45-year-old ex-Minneapolis police officer has pleaded not guilty to murder and manslaughter charges in the May 2020 death of George Floyd, a Black man. The trial has included police testimony and emotional eyewitness descriptions of Floyd dying under Chauvin’s knee. Chauvin's defense team is arguing that he was following the training he had received during his 19 years on the force.

4. Prince Harry arrive back in Britain to attend Prince Philip’s funeral on Saturday.

5. The UK ended its three month lockdown. People lined up outside retailers across England to release their pent-up shopping fever and some grabbed a midnight pint or even an early haircut as shops, pubs, gyms and hairdressers reopened.

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LIVE: Jury Selection Resumes in Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Over George Floyd Death

LIVE: Jury Selection Resumes in Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Over George Floyd Death WorldViralMedia 30 Views • 4 years ago

(Mar. 16) Watch live as potential jurors in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial return Tuesday, March 16, to continue a selection process in the former Minneapolis police officer's trial over the death of George Floyd. Five jurors have been seated after just two days of screening by attorneys and the Hennepin County judge, Peter Cahill, who had set aside at least three weeks to fill the panel.

An attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death asked the judge Monday to delay the trial, saying the announcement of a $27 million settlement for Floyd's family could make a fair trial impossible.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson also raised the possibility of renewing his previously unsuccessful motion to move Derek Chauvin's trial to another city.

"I am gravely concerned with the news that broke on Friday," Nelson said, adding that the announcement "has incredible potential to taint the jury pool."

Mayor Jacob Frey deferred questions about the timing of the settlement to City Attorney Jim Rowader, who declined to comment.

Representatives for both said they were following the judge's guidance to not comment on the criminal proceedings.

Prosecutor Steve Schleicher said the state had no control over Frey and the City Council, who announced Friday that Minneapolis had agreed to the settlement that Floyd family attorney Ben Crump called the largest pretrial settlement ever for a civil rights claim.

Absent a delay or change of venue, Nelson urged Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill to consider giving both sides extra strikes to remove potential jurors for possible bias, and to recall the seven jurors seated last week to ask if the settlement affected their view of the case.

But Schleicher said those jurors already promised they could decide the case based only on evidence presented at trial.

Cahill agreed to consider the request for a delay, but didn't think it would be appropriate to grant additional strikes to either side.

He said he likely would recall the seven previously seated jurors for further questioning though he already instructed members of the jury pool to avoid all news coverage of the case.

Attorneys must settle on 12 jurors to deliberate and two alternates. At least three weeks have been set aside for jury selection.

The first potential juror questioned Monday was quickly dismissed after volunteering that she'd heard about the settlement and presumed it meant the city didn't feel it would win the civil case.

"When I heard that, I almost gasped at the amount," she said, adding that she couldn't promise she could disregard it.

Floyd, a Black man, was declared dead on May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against his neck for about nine minutes.

Floyd's death sparked sometimes violent protests in Minneapolis and beyond and led to a national reckoning on racial justice.

Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.

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Hemp Hemp Hurray: A Plant That Can Help Solve Climate Change

Hemp Hemp Hurray: A Plant That Can Help Solve Climate Change WorldViralMedia 30 Views • 5 years ago

Did you know that hemp is really good at pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? It turns out this ancient crop can’t get you high, but it can help keep temperatures low. Learn how hemp plants can replace carbon-intensive products and help solve climate change.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: JOEL BACH, DAVID GELBER and DREW MAGRATTEN
WRITER: ILANA BERGER
SCRIPT EDITORS: JOEL BACH, JOSH FUTTERSAK, MAYA LILLY, DREW MAGRATTEN, MATT ROSENBAUM, MAGGIE BADORE
EDITOR: JORJA HUDSON
PRESENTER: MORGAN SCHACKER
MUSIC: EPIDEMIC SOUND

SOURCES:
[i] An Argument for Farming Hemp https://www.greenentrepreneur.com/article/332064/
[ia] The Role of Industrial Hemp in Carbon Farming http://www.aph.gov.au/Document....Store.ashx?id=ae6e9b
[ii], [iii] CARBON FOOTPRINT FACTSHEET http://css.umich.edu/factsheet....s/carbon-footprint-f
[iv] The Concrete Conundrum https://www.rsc.org/images/Con....struction_tcm18-1145
[iva] Concrete https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Concrete
[v] Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa....-why-cement-emission
[va] Ply in the sky: the new materials to take us beyond concrete https://www.theguardian.com/wo....rld/2019/feb/27/ply-
[vi] The Hemp Building Experts https://www.hempitecture.com/
[vii] Hempcrete Has A Negative Carbon Footprint http://www.greensurfaceresourc....e.com/hempcrete-has-
[viii] Insulation Alternative: Hempcrete https://www.greenbuildermedia.....com/buildingscience/
[viiia] WHY DON'T WE USE HEMP FOR EVERYTHING? https://theoutline.com/post/3992/hemp-will-save-us-from-fire-cockroaches-heat-and-microplastics?zd=1&zi=zfjh3jou
[ix] Some Interesting Facts About Hempcrete As a Building Material https://nationalhempassociatio....n.org/some-interesti
[x],[xi] High on Environmentalism https://slate.com/technology/2....011/04/hemp-versus-c
[xii] Handbook of Sustainable Apparel Production.
[xiii] Hemp Makes Great Plastic, So Why Isn’t Hemp Plastic Everywhere? https://ministryofhemp.com/blo....g/why-isnt-hemp-plas
[xiiia] How much oil is used to make plastic? https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6
[xiv] Plastic & Climate https://www.ciel.org/wp-conten....t/uploads/2019/05/Pl
[xv] Hemp Makes Great Plastic, So Why Isn’t Hemp Plastic Everywhere? https://ministryofhemp.com/blo....g/why-isnt-hemp-plas
[xva] Zeoform: Turns Hemp Into Almost Anything https://matteroftrust.org/zeof....orm-turns-hemp-into-
[xvb] HEMP PLASTICS http://www.cannopycorp.com/hemp-plastics.html
[xvi] Ibid.
[xvii] The Many Possibilities of Hemp Plastics https://nationalhempassociation.org/hemp-plastics/
[xviii] Can Hemp Clean Up the Earth? https://www.rollingstone.com/p....olitics/politics-fea
[xix] Why farmers in Puglia have turned to cannabis https://www.thelocal.it/201606....03/puglias-farmers-s
[xx] Can Hemp Clean Up the Earth? https://www.rollingstone.com/p....olitics/politics-fea
[xxi] Ibid.
[xxii] The People's History https://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/history.html
[xxiii] The Farm Bill, hemp legalization and the status of CBD https://www.brookings.edu/blog..../fixgov/2018/12/14/t
[xxiv] Marijuana https://www.history.com/topics..../crime/history-of-ma
[xxiva] Hemp History Timeline https://manitobaharvest.com/he....mp-academy/lessons/h
[xxivb] CBD 101: Is Cannabidiol (CBD) Psychoactive? https://plantpeople.co/cbd-101....-is-cannabidiol-cbd-
[xxv] The Farm Bill, hemp legalization and the status of CBD https://www.brookings.edu/blog..../fixgov/2018/12/14/t
[xxva] Congress just passed an $867 billion farm bill. Here’s what’s in it. https://www.washingtonpost.com..../business/2018/12/11
[xxvb] Senate Passes Bipartisan Farm Bill to Legalize Industrial Hemp Production https://www.warner.senate.gov/....public/index.cfm/201
[xxvi] Establishment of a Domestic Hemp Production Program https://www.federalregister.go....v/documents/2019/10/
[xxvii] As demand for CBD explodes, US farmers are seeing dollar signs https://qz.com/1686276/how-muc....h-hemp-is-grown-in-t

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